Message #34572

[jadegrniiz]

Hi, Terri!

It might help to know, generally speaking, what kind of business industry you are in.

Something I've discovered recently is that keeping tabs on package delivery companies (like UPS and FedEx) is a good way to nickle and dime the budget. For one, is the package delivered on time? If delivery is guaranteed by 10am, then at 10:01am track the package and if it hasn't been received, call and get a discount on the delivery charges. We started doing this here, and even found out that it's not worth paying extra for the AM delivery... because it was never on time, anyhow, and the discount didn't equal the surcharges.

Another thing I'd caution - here at my office, we recently went with a new cleaning company to save money and employees were responsible for their own garbage. The plan backfired, bigtime. People were only taking out their trash when it overflowed or started to smell, cube-mates were complaining about the other cube-mates trash, and big complaints about how being a janitor wasn't in the job description. In fact..... we became so anal about expenses that a new employee couldn't even get a GARBAGE CAN, and DESK SUPPLIES without approval from the Executive Offices. She ended up leaving, because she felt jipped.

Hope some of that helps, at least.... but I know there will be a few more replies here in the next few hours.


Jadegrniiz
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