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Sometimes the biggest waste of money is being cheap: Penny Smart, Dollar Dumb.

Like a company that will spend a lot of money on hiring people, but won't give them a decent laptop because they had a different one from 7 years ago. Or refuses to give someone the training that they need.

Or a company that shuts the heat or AC off exactly at 5pm to save a couple of bucks on electric cost (and chase all their people out).

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Keyboards, mouse, monitor too. They're dirt cheap compared to recruiting, improve productivity and the likelihood that someone is going to want to work for that company.

But IMO shutting the AC off at 5 PM might actually be good company culture to encourage everyone to get everything done by then and go home.

Yup, I've brought my own stuff in before, because it's what I wanted. Happy that I now work at a place that isn't like that!

I could see what you mean by that, but in this instance, the owner was a notorious penny pincher. It was because he was cheap. This was also back in the early 2000's when the company culture was that of drinking during work on Fridays. You may think it was the 80's... everyone called the place "The Country Club"

Tools too. I'm looking at you Resharper.

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