CosmicBagel
Cost cutting
What's the weirdest, funny, worst or best things you've heard a company did for shake of cost cutting
15mo ago
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QuirkyNoodle
Stealth15mo
Shut down the company
WobblyPancake
Dukaan15mo
Take 🏆
DizzyLlama
Freelancer15mo
7 crore!!!
SwirlyTaco
Stealth15mo
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 FM15mo
Companies will ask for Gender in every stupid form but ignore it and guess it based on name when it is actually needed. 😃
SwirlyTaco
Stealth15mo
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
They removed soap🤢.
FloatingBurrito
Walmart15mo
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.
PeppyNugget
Gokwik15mo
All these seem to be valid ways of reducing costs
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Is this another cost saving measure?