My company was having some money issues and from what I understood, they were trying to find ways to cut the budget anyway that they could. If they could not trim it down, then they would have to think about cutting hours, or even worse, laying people off.

I sat down with a committee of coworkers to see if we could come up with ways to save money. I had suggested that we conserve energy and use less electricity to keep that cost down. My friend Jane came up with the idea to find a new janitorial products provider.

The current janitorial products company that we used was a very small local one. We all knew that we could probably save a lot of money by switching to an online cleaning supplies company but we all really liked the people who ran the local shop. We knew that desperate times called for desperate measures and we had to explore all of our options.

I took that job and sat down all afternoon on my computer in the hopes that I would be able to find someone cheaper than our current cleaning supplies company and quickly before we all changed our mind.