Are You Penny Wise and Pound Foolish?

The obvious signs of austerity measures being enacted in a company are usually the "comfort " items are downgraded or removed altogether.

Where once there were creme filled biscuits and "nice" brand named coffee, now its paper cups with shared tea bags.

When the last of the 3 ply is gone it's grudgingly replaced with strips of yesterdays newspaper hung on a bent nail.

I've been in places where the employees jealously guard "their" office supplies.

Hoarding becomes a way of life so much so that delivery people hold on to their pens while the staff sign for the goods.

Instead of trying to find ways of improving income most companies driven by academically credentialed cretins who only know slash and burn, strip bare their already lean operations, often to the point of corporate failure.

You can't tell some people.....

Most company' cut on business travel and Advertisements. I think both reduces business prospect of a Company

when i worked at a big dutch firm it was handled by a big commission and they came to the conclusion to fire the people that do all the work and hire more managers.