Friday, May 20, 2005
corporate spending responsibilities...
as most of my friends know, i am an employee of a rather successful alarm company, which is in the top ten of dealers for adt in north america. in the midst of confusion and a mis-communication on both sides, there has been some shortages of equipment which make for their satellite offices being short on supplies. its like being caught in the jungle in no snake biters for your legs, you never know if you are going to get bit, but if you do, man, you are screwed.
anyway, an office was short on equipment and i was asked to send him more supplies so that he would not get behind on future jobs. i was told to send it next day. the cost of sending the boxes was more than it would cost me to drive from california cross country in my truck. what a waste of finances. now my real question remains, is there or should there be some responsibility in corporate spending? if there are mistakes like this, where is the slack taken in? most of the time, its done on the consumer end. prices raise to compensate, making the burden on the buyer.
now i am not implying that the security business is going to skyrocket in monthly monitor rates or anything of the sort (actually, it does that anyway...lol), i just want to understand where the line is drawn concerning responsibility. how much is enough before companies start pushing the burden of their misguiding upon the consumer.
hyrum
anyway, an office was short on equipment and i was asked to send him more supplies so that he would not get behind on future jobs. i was told to send it next day. the cost of sending the boxes was more than it would cost me to drive from california cross country in my truck. what a waste of finances. now my real question remains, is there or should there be some responsibility in corporate spending? if there are mistakes like this, where is the slack taken in? most of the time, its done on the consumer end. prices raise to compensate, making the burden on the buyer.
now i am not implying that the security business is going to skyrocket in monthly monitor rates or anything of the sort (actually, it does that anyway...lol), i just want to understand where the line is drawn concerning responsibility. how much is enough before companies start pushing the burden of their misguiding upon the consumer.
hyrum
