When Cheaping Out Backfires: 25 Companies Who Paid a Hefty Price for Cutting Corners
The club was taking around 45k per week but they wouldn’t pay for radios for us to least be able to communicate. We had so many incidents there that it was just insane. There just wasn’t enough of us to actually watch the whole club and even when we did see something we couldn’t call for back up. I found a set of second hand radios for under £200 but they refused to buy them I ended up buying whistles for the team to at least give us something to use to get each others attention.
They also wouldn’t pay to get CCTV installed which upset the local police.
One night a bartender came out to the door and told me there was a fight inside, there was no security inside just 2 of us on the door. When we went in there was around 60 people brawling on the dance floor. We did what we could but it was beyond our control. Eventually the police arrived but wouldn’t come inside they stood outside and essentially instructed us to kick everyone out and they would keep them out. We spent 45 minutes dragging people out of there.
Many people were injured and after the fight one of the guys who had been fighting came back and stabbed a guy he had fought with.
The police decided enough was enough and approached the council who as expected revoked the premises license. They lost the club altogether.
The company my mom worked for had new offices built and instead of hiring movers they had the staff move. They had 3 injuries occur including my mom tearing her ACL. The HR director, who my mom was friends with, said it cost them 16x the amount they were quoted for movers to cover medical, legal, etc. costs.
Someone I know worked for the “oldest american” hoist company. They decided to outsource production to china. The cost of transport, losses, customs, etc made the chinese hoists just as expensive as their american made ones and then the chinese company stole the plan to make and sell themselves for less.
Lay off a bunch of veteran people so they can bring in newer workers for cheaper. They find they couldn’t bring in newer people for cheaper so they hire newer people at close to the same price as the veteran workers. Veteran workers are mad they have to train somebody making almost the same as they are with no experience and start leaving. Company has to pay fewer remaining veteran workers even more to get them to stay while paying inexperienced workers close to what the workers they just laid off were making.
To my knowledge, prior to the lay offs, the veteran workers weren’t even complaining about pay. Now the department is at a worse state and more expensive than what it was prior to their plan to save money.
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