The admin ladies at clientco used to take the company credit card to the local supermarket to buy fruit for the ~40 people in the offices. £30 per week budget. This has now been stopped by the purchasing department, who say the company credit card mustn't be used in this way, and that fruit must be bought from one of the approved catering suppliers. They charge considerably more for each fruit item than the local supermarket does, in addition to a fixed fee of £10. That means we'd get now about 10 apples between us.
This is not value for money, so the fruit budget has been abolished.
Obv. this doesn't affect rich contractors, but it is a fine example of corporate idiocy. What's odd is that the CIO and his team are part of this office, and were the ones who instigated the fruit bowls. But even they don't have the power to go against purchasing...
This is not value for money, so the fruit budget has been abolished.
Obv. this doesn't affect rich contractors, but it is a fine example of corporate idiocy. What's odd is that the CIO and his team are part of this office, and were the ones who instigated the fruit bowls. But even they don't have the power to go against purchasing...
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