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If you set up company purchasing cards, or P-cards, you can set limits to what and how much can be bought using the card. For instance, your officemanager who never travels can still use her P-card to buy office supplies and earn cash back or reward miles to supplement your travel budget. Hire a travel agency.
Don’t worry—we’ve made a list to get you ready to handle every aspect of your office move. Many of these pointers came straight from our Facebook group of OfficeManagers! Establish your budget and purchasing process. Who (if anyone) will need to approve your purchases or vendor contracts? Size of current office.
He asked the current officemanager how to get access to his account, and she said she had no idea what happened to the information (she was not the person who set this up back in the day) for everyone’s logins and couldn’t help him. Sales jobs when you have a bad product.
It was already hard to hear candidates/clients with everyone talking all the time, but CEO had read that a sales company somewhere had a gong in the office and they banged it whenever they made a sale, which caused excitement and made people work harder I guess. The aggressive sales. ‘Sorry. The talking ban.
Don’t worry—we’ve made a list to get you ready to handle every aspect of your office move. Many of these pointers came straight from our Facebook group of OfficeManagers! Establish your budget and purchasing process. Who (if anyone) will need to approve your purchases or vendor contracts? Size of current office.
From there I worked as the officemanager for a lovely, tiny temp agency, where my 4 wonderful coworkers restored my faith in humanity, the workplace, and myself. I started two weeks ago and have been loving it despite some 60+-hour weeks bringing order to the chaos. Those bosses really do still exist, it’s mind-boggling.
I am an officemanager in an office of 70-75 people. Our employees could potentially pre-purchase discounted tickets online and lose money if the show is cancelled, which seems to happen often based on the BBB complaints. This isn’t a perk; it’s a marketing gimmick — a way to generate sales of tickets.
How to get a senior coworker to stop spamming the office email list. Could you advise on how to tell an officemanager to stop spamming the entire office with random supermarket deals, random events, motivational speaker sales pitches, irrelevant travel alerts etc?
Once I ordered a bunch of purple ball point pens because they were on sale for the same price as the black/blue ones, so why not have something fun. I explained about the one-time sale price and that we didn’t have a budget to spend 5x more for a pretty colour, but those pens haunted me for months. Biggest mistake of my year.
And then their sales rep Jane emailed me. I said I didn’t make purchasing decisions. Then their sales rep John emailed me. And Jane found our phone number and called the officemanager asking for me. And found the name of one of the other project managers and called asking for him.
Coffee was 50 cents/cup to purchase more supplies. The officemanager is responsible for ordering things/keeping them stocked. Officemanager called in maintenance but they were estimating that it wouldn’t be online until late afternoon/next business day. totally free to employees. Marge I used to work with “Marge.”
Finally, the officemanager started hinting that if I wasn’t actually working, I didn’t need to be at work. After about a month of intense anxiety, insomnia, and occasional stress-vomiting, I told the director I was going to the post office to mail all of the various legal packets to the counties for what should be the final approval.
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