Hi peeps.
Im sure many of you, who has been slugging it out in the concrete
jungle for quite some time, has experienced Company Costs Cutting
(or CCC for short) with your respective managements. How about
sharing with the rest on what cost cutting measures were
implemented by management and ultimately proved
self-defeating?
I'll kick start with an experience of mine:
This MNC that im currently working in has a huge filing room filled
with metal cabinets for various filing purposes.
Originally, tall hard-cover files were indented for filing the
respective documents. The advantage is that the files, being
hard-covered in nature, are able to stand firmly side-by-side in
the cabinets but the disadvantage is that their slightly more
costlier then their flimsy cardboard file counterparts.
Thus management, in all its wisdom, decided to stop indenting the
hard cover files for the soft covered ones in order to cut costs.
And lo and behold, as you guys might have guessed, the accumulated
weight of the cardboard files caused rows of files to slant
lope-sided, making file retrieval and storing difficult and
extremely time-consuming.
Ultimately, management decided to indent boxes and boxes of
book-ends to make the soft-cardboard files stack properly but as
far as i can see, its only a temporary reprieve as the book ends
are starting to bend over from the weight.
Total costs incurred, including both cheap soft covered files and
metal book ends, turns out to be much more then simply indenting
more hard covered files.
What are your experiences with the management's self-defeating
"costs cutting" measures?
