I am wondering if my employees realize how much money I spend on office supplies every month. I have recently noticed lots of waste near the copy machine. It seems that someone accidentally copied five hundred pieces of literature upside down on our letter head. I would love to find out who did it, but since our copy machines do not have the technology to track each person, I will just have to watch and see if anyone talks about doing it.

I called the office supply company that I use and told them that they are only to accept orders that come directly from me and that absolutely no one else. I know that sometimes we will run out of paper, or pens or paperclips and one of my employees will call and order them with our office supply company and that was fine before but now that I see they take advantage of it, I will have to stop it.

In this economy, everyone needs to be tightening their belts and I am starting with tightening my office supply room belt. I will authorize every purchase until I think they will respect me enough to not waste anything anymore.