What should I do.....

[MissMillie]

Outside of my boss's duties here at the University, he has a consulting business where he travels and gives seminars and workshops. He gets paid VERY HANDSOMELY for this work. (For a two-day seminar he can make more than I do in a whole year.)

He usually asks me to assemble materials for him, and he pays me from his own pocket for this work (even when I do it when I'm on the clock here at the University).

Anyway, last week I put together materials for a two-day workshop, and then sent it to our shipping department for them to over-night it to the location of the seminar.

Our shipping department messed up and the materials went ground instead of overnight. My boss never got the materials for his seminar.

Now, I know that the mistake was not mine, but I feel rather bad about him not having his materials. At the same time, I paid for some of the supplies (binders, colored paper, etc) out of my own pocket (to the tune of about $120).

Should I bill him for my work, for just the supplies, or both?

[democracyindanger]

1. bill him

what you would normally bill him. While feeling bad is commendable, it was the shipping department's fault.

[SiouxJ]

2. Bill him for it all

if he's getting paid well, chances are he needs all the write offs he can get anyway.