Dig this. At Work we have 3 different size takeout trays, Large (18"), Med(16") and Small(12"). These trays are black plastic and we send out various items to takeout on them such as fruit trays etc. They are covered with clear plastic lids that snap onto them to cover the food inside. Several weeks ago the powers that be decided to order them in in 25 count "combo packs" containing 25 tops and 25 bottoms because they were cheaper than ordering boxes of 50 count bottoms or fifty count tops separately. Well you can probably guess what happened, but I'll tell you anyway. We now have 9 cases of 16" tops and 9 cases of 18" bottoms. Now everything is coming in in combo packs, but we now have 450 18" bottoms, and 450 16" tops. It seems to me that this does not add up to "saving money " in my book. It adds up to having 500 now useless items. That's bean counters for you! This is just one of the many things I have to put up with at work. Sigh!
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That's management for ya. At my work, just when we finally figure out where to put the last bolt of new arrival fabrics up we get another shipment. Now, I do not know where we are going to put all this flat folds that arrived today. We need to sell some of it first and we are not even busy right now. We do not have a single empty shelf or table or bin to put another piece of material anywhere. Sigh...
You sould try public education. Big business and public ed. always are looking for a deal and end up costing money instead of saving it.
At least your boss doesn't think he know your job better than you do and couldn't even turn on the machine without screwing things up.
I am in big business and education albeit private education. Oh by the way I can't add. We have 900 useless items not 500.
I don't quite follow how it happened, but I can assure you that after 13 years of ordering things for the libraries there are thousands of reasons why things like that happen, and most of them have to do with my incompetence, so I guess the powers that be at BYU catering are in the same boat I am. it's more remarkable when things go right than when they go wrong.
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