Our company has a rule: any purchase over $500 needs a director's signature. Directors take about six weeks.
Our coffee machine broke in January. A new one costs $996.
We asked. "Six weeks."
By week three, someone was drinking instant coffee out of a soup bowl.
So my manager had an idea.
She placed two orders. Same day. Same supplier.
"Coffee machine: top half. $498."
"Coffee machine: bottom half. $498."
Both approved automatically.
It arrived on Thursday. We were drinking real coffee by 10am.
On Friday, the finance director walked into our kitchen holding two invoices...
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