Max,
I see your dilemna here, and since I spend several million a year personally purchasing IT technology for my company, I can relate. I am responsible for every transaction and have to answer for it. I buy from 20+ different sources and yes, at the end of the day, there is a little more work for our office manager, but in the long run I save tens of thousands of dollars. The biggest reason for plans like yours to be put into place is to take the decision out of your hand because most people can not 'let one go'. By this I am referring to the fact that most people who shop around and are price consious have to save EVERY CENT they can and this is where it gets interesting.
They will spend 30 minutes to save $3.67 not realizing their lost productivity FAR outweighed the savings. I took over from a guy who had this attitude and it cost my company lots of money - either spending too much time on it
or ordering 10 of something 'because of the deal' when we have never sold any of that particular item. I am hyper sensitive because this is part of what my job is assessed on, so I say show them your track record.
You are clearly one who can, and has shown, to be able to use descretion when purchasing and has saved lots of money. I would show them some of the discrepencies between what you are getting and the 'preferred' vendor price, anyone who does not think 200% is a raping, will never listen to any reason.
Good luck, but do not loose your job over this, there is always another battle to fight....
Originally Posted by maxcichon
I hope I qualify for all of that great unemployment benefit BHO has set up. Folks have been "disappeared" for bucking the trend in these parts!
99 weeks or something absolutely absurd like that
