I wanted to find a new cleaning products company that would deliver since we had to cut staff and cannot afford to send anyone out for hours running around picking up cleaning supplies every month. When we had to cut staff, I had a meeting with everyone who was still here and informed them that we still needed to find other ways to save money to insure that they all would be able to keep their jobs.

The janitor told me that he knew for a fact that by using a local cleaning products company, we were paying way too much. I asked him why he had never said anything before and he let me know that since we had been using them before he got here, he just thought that we had made the choice to buy local. I laughed and told everyone in the room that this is not the case and if we can find other things, just like the cleaning supplies then we needed to start making those changes quickly.

Who knows, if we had done this sooner we might have been able to save some jobs. I hope that my staff takes this seriously and by the end of the week we have other new suppliers, not just a new cleaning supplies company.