A Lesson in Corporate Efficiency: When Saving $1,200 Costs $25,000
This post highlights a common workplace irony where short-term budget cuts lead to significant long-term losses. The anecdote describes a situation where management denied a $1,200 request for a new laptop, citing budget constraints. When the employee's existing equipment failed during a critical project, the company suffered a week of lost productivity and the loss of a $25,000 client. The post serves as a satirical commentary on poor decision-making and the disconnect between immediate cost-saving measures and overall business impact.
my old boss prefered that we managed our own email server using a cheap shitty hosting that needed a dedicated engineer to manage it and emails were lost all the time, instead of using something more profesional like google or microsoft, but hey at least the hosting was 5 dollars
On my previous work place there was not budget to buy angle grinder. This was heavy machinery work shop. So customer brought this big hydraulic cylinder with bent shaft. One guy sawed shaft cut with hand saw about a week and a half. Every day from morning to end of the shift. Mig
It's okay, HR will just fire someone and then Management can boast a profit again.
I recently had to return a company laptop I got abt year and a half ago. Got quite shocked reactions, as they got it in same packaging box as they sent it. Never oppened. Mainly because it was a fkin macbook and I don't use such trash hardware.
I use to work on a company that was purchased by a US conglomerate... HR and the new manegement fired all the salespeople. Because they "made too much"........ we didnt last 6 months..... no sales since the first month...they were fired and took all the clients with them... .I wa
Myself and two colleagues were let go and replaced by one kid fresh out of college to run a resort, park, and concert venue. He laid off maintenance and security before anything was winterized for our harsh winters. Pipes burst all over and caused tens of millions of dollars in d
I have witnessed countless minor and major examples of this egg-head-in-front-of-an-excel-table-behavior.
Welcome to the logistics industry...truck is falling apart? Not enough in the maintence budget, oh you broke down 100 miles from a city? Now its a tow and the repair cost and late deleveries
Yeah, I work in nucular power plant, one time management decide that is time for some cuts in bugets. So 10% off for that trustworthy Chinnes steel pipes was looking promising. They saved 10 000euros. After mont they found out that pipes didnt have certificates of conformity, so
But there was a chance that it wouldn't have died. This is the chance corporate wanted to take.