Cost cutting
What's the weirdest, funny, worst or best things you've heard a company did for shake of cost cutting
Gonedalf
Stealth
a year ago
Shut down the company
Large (multi billion) American Tech MNCs India Setup:
Post the 2008 downturn, mandated shared hotel rooms for sales roles.
As luck would have it a mis-tagged "Sheetal" got roomed with a girl. Aero India in Bangalore ensured no other rooms were available.
Sheetal was ok, girl was not. Sheetal spent the night with helpful long-lost relative.
Companies will ask for Gender in every stupid form but ignore it and guess it based on name when it is actually needed. 😃
WITCH Co:
Stopped stocking restrooms with "paper". After a while stopped stocking restrooms with soap.
Mayhem ensued and they restored soap. Paper never made a comeback.
Switched from notion to wiki page, removed half of the diagnostic tools for metrics and debugging. Asked to implement open source solutions( though I don't mind that, as most of the saas products are just opensource projects + 1-1 support on top). Stopped internal projects which was demanding a high server cost, even lowered the server machine running.
CaptainLazzo
Stealth
a year ago
Stopped our Internet reimbursement, stopped snacks . Silently laidoff 20+ employees. But higher management is going for fancy conferences in Europe
CEO
Stealth
a year ago
Is the company Ultrahuman?
Phoenix69
Stealth
a year ago
Does company name start with S?
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Trying to make the laid off people believe it’s due to their performance 😂
samosa
Stealth
a year ago
Removed CEO
Ceo Shake ass in bars and earned some 💰 to stretch the runway for fellow mates.
Spoileralert
Stealth
a year ago
Used to have daily lunch, that had chicken. Then it became twice a week, then it’s once a week and today there was only gravy!
Qwerty2398
Stealth
a year ago
Replaced milk with milk powder. Air dryers in toilet.
Itachi777
Stealth
a year ago
Not to mention the snacks were removed, free lunch cancelled, in chennai they were not turning on the AC also properly.
Spent 2 hours of senior execs time to optimise gardners.
Reduced gardeners from 5 to 2.
Nevermind the 2 hour salary of all execs in the meeting would have paid for almost 2 years salary of all gardners
stupidusername
Stealth
a year ago
Removed snacks
Stopped keeping tissues in washrooms to wipe hands. People started using toilet rolls.
Restricted US Business visa travel to 21 days.
This was an IT services company minting 1.5+ billion dollars an year.
nobody_90
Stealth
a year ago
Replaced apples in the pantry with bananas.
LetUsC
Stealth
a year ago
Silently fired the US team.
Blahblah
Stealth
a year ago
Switched off AC between 9am to 1pm
furious
Stealth
a year ago
Ffs
BurnAway
Stealth
a year ago
Removed CEO
Removed Cups, Snacks.
Gifts long gone.
Cabs became scarce.
Renovation of the office stopped.
