Le 2013-04-12 17:56, Orchid Win7 v1 a écrit :
> (This based on the fact that I work for a tiny company, and the
> financial director has made it her mission in life to never spend any
> money on anything, ever, no matter how necessary it is...)

That's her job.  By definition.

All first line managers, in all companies:  Madly trying to get more 
staff to do what is asked of them.

All second line managers and above, in all companies:  Madly trying to 
reduce costs and get people to do more with less.

Case in point, my employer just published their results for 2012.  They 
made "only" $10G in profits, so for 2013, they need to cut costs even 
more.  My boss is fighting to prevent our 3-days-a-week contractor's 
contract from being cancelled as a cost cutting measure.  Apparently the 
two new customer contracts that were just signed totally close to .8 FTE 
more work for our team of 4 is not enough justification to keep the 
contractor.  If she fails, we'll be down to 3 with 1.4 FTE more work to 
do, and that makes perfect sense to the higher ups.
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