To think this is the bottom of the barrel for penny pinching!

[GrumpyOldBagFace]

Email from work saying that our reports should be in font 11 as font 12 uses more paper.

I doubt this is an environmental concern. We've already been told to go easy on the biros.

[Snowydaysarehere]

Every Friday dc school email me (and dh) the school weekly newsletter. Reminder at the bottom about being mindful of the environment before printing off..
Then send dc out of the door with a copy each!
3 dc!! 3 letters!!

[BumpowderSneezeonAndSnot]

We get emailed letters from school - the large majority have signing sheets on them and waffle about the environment. No it's not the environment as it still needs printing!!

[hmmwhatatodo]

Is it to somehow save on printing costs as well as paper?

[TheSnowFairy]

I like font 11 but would be irritated to be told what to use

[Bluntness100]

go easy on the biros

[shouldnthavesaid]

NHS toilets at my work - sign above every sink - 'Improper use, there's no excuse - if one will do, do not take two' referring to hand towels! surprised there wasn't one for loo roll too!

[hmmwhatatodo]

Yes we were told a while ago to only use 1 paper hand towel but I always felt that two were needed and anyway, they often got bunched up in the machine so you ended up having to pull a handful out anyway.

[Knittedfairies]

You'll be saving on ink as well as paper..

[YourVagesty]

I once had a boss who took photographs of us all on a night out, printed them off on her home printer, on regular paper, i.e. not nice shiny photograph paper.

She asked me if I liked any of them and just to be polite I pointed at one that I thought looked alright. She handed it to me and requested 5 pence.

5 pence.

[ChocFudgeLover]

Print them all in 4 and tell them you're saving the world

[GrumpyOldBagFace]

It's a massive organisation. If they're that skint they need to ration the biros they have huge problems!

They might be better off looking at updating the shit computer system that easily adds an hour onto our admin each day.

I'm preparing for the day they take our tea bags!

[TinklyLittleLaugh]

I bet that e mail was written by some young whippersnapper who hasn't yet hit middle aged long sightedness.

[Cornettoninja]

Actually I agree with them. I always attempt to format my documents in a way that uses less sheets of paper.

Not only does it save paper (this is pretty much universally accepted as a 'good thing' surely?) but people are much more likely to read the thing if they haven't already written it off psychologically as a never ending document of waffling.

[NurseButtercup]

I'm preparing for the day they take our tea bags!



I'm sorry I have nothing useful to add to this thread apart from my laughter!!!

[Falconhoof1]

They give you teabags?

[thecatsthecats]

YABU. In a massive organisation, the knock on effects of changing the font size are bigger, not smaller.

I have conducted environmental reviews and training, and an environmental review almost always saves a company money as well as helping the environment.

Plus what a ridiculous thing to whine about.

[Cornettoninja]

Oh and you're lucky to get biros at all (NHS here!).

On the rare occasions we do get some people hoard them all (along with post it's, notebooks, staples. Paper clips etc) because they're so rationed. Counter productive really - they'd be better off finding out who supplies ASDA with stationery rather than paying massively inflated prices

[foxychox]

we have been asked to re-use disposable cutlery that has been put through the dishwasher - bleurrgh. I've brought my own cutlery in. And our teabags went a very long time ago!!

[daisypond]

I'm in the private sector and we bring our own biros! And tea bags.
I don't think the font size thing is unreasonable, though. It's an easy cost-saver if you print a lot.

[meredintofpandiculation]

It's a massive organisation. If they're that skint they need to ration the biros they have huge problems! Wasn't there some big catering organisation that saved a huge amount by cutting the number of olives in a salad from 5 to 4? Tiny individual savings multiplied up turn into large amounts of money.

[SocksRock]

I turned up at work one day to find they’d removed the hand towel dispensers from the toilets and left us with a hand dryer that didn’t work.

Was a new low point in working for a crappy company, although they were definitely in financial trouble Carillion

Even they didn't take the tea bags though.

[WellThatsATurnipForTheBooks]

What's the betting that the OP's company have paid an absolute fortune to a consultant who has told them how to save pennies by making changes like this.

The company will probably have to implement these changes for 75+ years to recoup the money it paid for the consultant in the first place.

[Littlepond]

meredint I think the olives was an airline? That's exactly what this thread made me think of too. Huge savings and no one would really notice one less olive. Genius!

[toriatoriatoria]

We have to supply our own teabags