The widely preferred
almost-acronym for the
California Automated Travel Expense Reimbursement System (CalATERS) because state employees HATE it due to the sheer difficulty
people have navigating its website which everyone assumes is entirely intentionally built into the process to prevent reimbursement.
I spent almost the entire
day trying to figure out how to use the CalHATERS website until I began to hallucinate that a giant
panda was destroying everything on my desk and so once I began to realize that it
may be virtually impossible to get reimbursed, I just gave up on it and acknowledged that the money Iโ
d spent on my licensure and all of the expenses I had related to travel for the whole year was just down the drain!