Cost cutting
What's the weirdest, funny, worst or best things you've heard a company did for shake of cost cutting
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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.
They removed soap🤢.
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.
All these seem to be valid ways of reducing costs
Trying to make the laid off people believe it’s due to their performance 😂
Removed urinal scented mats 😂
Removed CEO
Ceo Shake ass in bars and earned some 💰 to stretch the runway for fellow mates.
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!