Yesterday I found out that a shortage of styrofoam cups in the kitchen that we experienced in our building was actually occuring all over the Redmond campus. Some of us joked last night that this was the latest in the string of penny wise, pound foolish cost cuttings in the same vein as only having office supplies on one floor of the building.

This morning I realized that moving all of a particular resource to one floor to "cut costs" was actually an example used in The Dilbert Principle in a section entitled Companies That Turn On Themselves.

I wonder what other Dilbert-esque cost cutting moves folks out there have experienced? Post your favorites in the comments to this post.