I had just started working for a local attorneys office when one day, I noticed the office supply deliver truck outside. I had worked for a different company prior to coming here that used to use this office supply company. I also knew that the reason why my previous employer stopped using them is because they were unreliable and priced way too high.

I asked another secretary in the building about the supply company and she told me that they had used them for years and she did not like them either. I went to my boss and asked if it would be okay for me to explore options for a different office supplies company. I explained that I was pretty sure that I could find a company that would be more reliable and save money at the same time.

I called a friend of mine that still worked back at my old job to get the name of the office supplies company that they had switched to. She gave me their website address and I started printing out their price list to compare to the current office supply company. What I found was that a savings of about two hundred dollars could be made by going with this new company. My boss was thrilled and got all the partners to agree to the change.