Austerity

The company has made a major capital purchase that it can't afford.  Now it's a big sucking drain on financial resources.  Leadership's answer?  They will no longer buy boxes of tissues for people's desks or Styrofoam coffee cups.  They threatened to stop buying coffee since "everyone goes to Starbucks anyway."  (Note: at least two pots of coffee are consumed daily.  Apparently by elves.) That idea went away, but I'm sure there will soon be en embargo on paper clips and rubber bands.