Buy your own tissue.......

yes in my previous work. they used to supply a lot of coffee, creamer, milo in the office but then suddenly there were no more supplies and they said others have abused the supply and has even hoarded some of the coffee in their own containers!

We also experienced that. But supplies for office use were not given due to some deficiency in the budget but all. We buy our own pens and others.

In our company we are not given tissue papers individually. Our toilets however, does not run out of tissue papers. A housekeeping staff would come in every 2 PM to check what supplies needs replenishing. Aside from the tissue paper rolls, the paper towels and hand soap are always replenished. This way the company does not waste money. Like what you said. Not all use a lot of tissue paper so the company helps in saving the environment from using less. If one has colds, then they could go to the toilet and get some tissue paper or better yet, they bring in their own supply. In another company that I worked with, they provide orange juice and coffee to employees. We had it for maybe 2 years and it only stopped when they need to cut costs. Although a lot of people complained, I thought it was better thank laying off employees. what do you think?

When i was employed in the Philippines about two or three years ago, our language center stopped providing toilet papers and told us to bring our own. Students and teachers were using the toilet papers and it easily ran out and our company spent too much money on it. Some of the students just wasted it. So our boss decided to cut cost and stopped providing toilet papers. After awhile everybody got used to it and didn't complain.

I think it is very cheap and you should get it as till now. how can they be so cheap. they are cost cutting on the expenses. anyway if they have decided it, then can't help it. I have never worked in a place where they have stopped some supply. Thanks for sharing and have a wonderful day ahead.

I don't have that experience yet but I do know a friend wherein their freebies was there no more at their office because the management stopped the supplies. The supplies lasted quickly because most of the employees brought them to each of their houses which made the management angry. It's for the employees use inside the office it should not be brought home.

This happened not long ago at the gym I go to, they used to supply tissue to wipe the machines down after use, or to use to mop the sweat when you had a heavy workout! Then they suddenly stopped and put a message up saying that it was helping the environment by not supplying it any more, which is another excuse for them cutting costs! I always take a towel with me so it doesn't matter so much, however when I want to use a machine and someone hasn't wiped it after them its not very nice! Or if someone has sweated and made everything wet, not very hygienic.

here in my office there is no tissue provided by the office also but old employees said it used to be like that, there are tissue provided in the comfort rooms but it was stopped years ago :) I do understand though because it's for personal use. Still I am thankful that coffee is free in our office :)

Where I work everything is provided.....I would hate to think of buying my own tp....kleenex I do carry with me everywhere I go so that is not an issue.....but I think when you work for someone they should provide comfort items.

That situation is very familiar. In our office, we are women so tissue is a necessity. We bring our own tissue and sometime sthe management provides because our boss also takes some from time to time when needed. We didn't talk about it, we just have the professionalism that it's your need so provide yourself.

Hello there Ardoy. I think we have the same situation. Before, we also had our supply of tissue here in our workplace. It's just in one corner and we could get some if we want to especially when we need to go to the comfort room. Though, starting last month, I think they already stopped providing us some tissue. They didn't tell us anything about it. We just noticed that there is no roll of tissue anymore in the corner where they were putting it on before. So, it's already understood that we should already buy our own. Right now, all of us just bring our own tissue so we could really use something. I think it's just okay as long as we still have our free coffee and free drinking water. Oh no, I don't drink coffee so I'm just enjoying the free drinking water. Ah, I remember something, at least I still have my free internet. Yipee! I'm so happy to have that. At least, life is still not so boring at work. Good afternoon and happy myLotting to you. :)

We have our monthly supply of tissue in our office, like lots of tissue! You can even find on on the man's comfort room because our boss is very OC. That privilege isn't stop yet even if our sales lately went down. The only thing stopped is our monthly pot which is very obvious since we no longer get that much sales. Other than that, I can't think of any privileged that has stopped.

Here in our office, the only one given an allotment of toilet paper plus other toiletries is our General Manager . It is just but right that the toilet paper should already be shouldered by the employees, because that is already a personal belonging.

I used to work at an office. We had the same problem. Seems one or 2 of the workers were taking new rolls home. So manager made us bring our own. In a way i cant blame him. And of course we brought in better paper after that. Ha ha ha

When it comes to toilet tissue, I definitely don't think of that as being a privilege at work because the toilet tissue is needed for hygiene reasons. In fact, I have to say that I think that it is quite absurd to decide that they are no longer going to keep toilet tissue in the bathroom. It would ultimately end up being a lot of a distraction to have to carry your toilet tissue with you every time that you are going to use the rest room. This is a very stupid cost cutting method in my opinion.

I am getting used to buying my own things at work. When I was with my previous employer, everything is provided for us. We do have drinking water supply, tissues, coffee, microwave to heat our food, mobile prepaid load cards, name it. So when I transferred to my current job, it took me sometime to adjust as they simply don't those things. We have to pay for our drinking water, we don't have tissue paper in comfort rooms, no air freshener, no coffee and all. It is a good thing there's still airconditioner am so thankful for that.

Luckily, in our office, these things are commonly enough and shared by us. This management could save the time for the staff not to waste it on preparing them and also be convenient at work. When you are working in the office, these related activities must be done along the working. So I think our employer need to prepare them for the staff to make more efficient job. If the cost of these things are very great, the management system have to be improved accordingly. The management of these freebie could be the representative of the company culture as well. If the freebie at work is stopped, maybe I will need a period of time to adjust.

i once worked in an office where toilet tissues are supplied if you just request it. i myself use toilet tissues for personal hygiene. i would request 2 rolls of it everyweek from the supplies room. but there would be times when its out of stock. that would be the time that i would buy one for myself. but if the office decided to eliminate toilet tissue from the supply list, that would be fine with me.

What? That's terrible, I mean tissues are also used to dust the PCs and our desks, it's not just for us girls' personal "thing". When I was still working, I buy my own tissue for my personal use because the one being supplied to us is too scratchy and coarse you can't even use it to wipe the sweat on your forehead without fear of drawing blood (of course I'm exaggerating, but you get the picture).