{"id":8681,"date":"2015-07-13T08:00:42","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T12:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/?p=8681"},"modified":"2015-07-12T10:06:12","modified_gmt":"2015-07-12T14:06:12","slug":"cost-saving-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2015\/07\/cost-saving-measures\/","title":{"rendered":"Cost saving measures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt of a memo from a few years ago, during the great recession:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>(Redacted) has implemented a consumables reduction program.\u00a0 All consumables; copy paper, toner, note pads, pens, pencils, paper towels, garbage bags, paper plates, plastic flatware, toilet paper, and so forth <strong>must<\/strong> be reduced by 25%.\u00a0 (Redacted) is spending far to much on such material which is impacting our financial performance.<\/p>\n<p>The Management<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My contribution to the effort:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8685\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8685\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/toilet-paper.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8685\" src=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/toilet-paper-450x600.jpg\" alt=\"new consumable reduction program\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/toilet-paper.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/toilet-paper-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/toilet-paper-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/toilet-paper-400x533.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/toilet-paper-38x50.jpg 38w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8685\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">new consumable reduction program<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I wouldn&#8217;t want the CEO to miss his bonus this year&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt of a memo from a few years ago, during the great recession: (Redacted) has implemented a consumables reduction program.\u00a0 All consumables; copy paper, toner, note pads, pens, pencils, paper towels, garbage bags, paper plates, plastic flatware, toilet paper, and so forth must be reduced by 25%.\u00a0 (Redacted) is spending far to much on such &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2015\/07\/cost-saving-measures\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cost saving measures<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[81,305],"class_list":["post-8681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","tag-funnies","tag-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8681"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8698,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8681\/revisions\/8698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}