My new job started last week and already they have been giving me more things to do. I was given the office supplies ordering job on the second day and now, the discount office furniture ordering job today. I do not mind since it seems that we may be able to switch the providers of both of these services to a company that is owned by a friend of mine.

My friend has been selling office supplies and discount office furniture for about two years and over that time, his business has tripled. I think that when a lot of the big companies were cutting jobs and trying to cut back on some things, they all set out to find someone who could give them exactly what they were getting before but for a much better price.

This is where my friend comes in; he works strictly out of some warehouses that are placed all over the country, to accommodate every part of it. His prices are much lower, since he does not have the overhead of the chain stores and he can offer much lower prices than the mom and pop stores also. I asked my boss if it were possible to switch to my friends company and he said that as long as the prices were lower, it was fine.