Cost cutting

What's the weirdest, funny, worst or best things you've heard a company did for shake of cost cutting

16mo ago

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QuirkyNoodle

Stealth16mo

Shut down the company

WobblyPancake

Health Startup16mo

Take 🏆

DizzyLlama

Freelancer16mo

7 crore!!!

SwirlyTaco

Stealth16mo

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.

JumpyPretzel

Pocket FM16mo

Companies will ask for Gender in every stupid form but ignore it and guess it based on name when it is actually needed. 😃

SwirlyTaco

Stealth16mo

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.

GroovyBoba

X (formerly Twitter)16mo

They removed soap🤢.

FloatingBurrito

Gojek16mo

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.