Top Signs Your Company is Having Budget Cuts

Published by Grebo in Work
November 16, 2006

A short list of possible signs that your company is making budget cuts. Laugh all you want, I’ve seen them all.

Flavored coffee creamer disappears. It is soon replaced with powdered coffee “whitener.”
Breakroom coffee was once something recognizable like Folgers or Maxwell House. Now it’s some generic industrial food service brand.
You can’t turn the lights on in your area after hours.
Tissues in the breakrooms and bathrooms no longer exist, and it’s not because your co-workers stole them.
The cafeteria (which is run by an outside company) downsizes it’s offerings.
Breakroom plasticware utensils are replaced with new cutlery that makes airline plasticware look like it came from a steakhouse.
You lose your desk phone and switch to your mobile.
The bathroom soap is no longer scented.
Someone thought it would be cheaper to get rid of assigned cubes and cram more people into less area with “flexi-space.”
And the worst sign of all, the toilet paper has gone from two-ply to one-ply.

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