"What?" Every mid-sized city in America, and up, supports firms whose business model is "We will send someone trustworthy out with a truck to your office, pick up a bunch of paper, and then bring it to our office to destroy while—importantly—not losing it or looking at it."
-
-
Show this thread
-
The fact that that is a thing that exists in the world surprises a lot of people. The fact that that business is lucrative enough and stable enough to employ people doing it every day in every city should suggest something to you about e.g. our relationship with paper.
Show this thread
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
As an aside, I worked at a place once where "trucking it away" wasn't good enough. They opted to pay extra to have the shredder be in the truck. So a trusted security employee could visually confirm everything shredded without the truck guy looking at it.
-
The irony was that 99% of it was massive daily reports that we're completely ignored by their recipients. And I mean foot-thick stacks of paper per report.
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
Ppl I share office have this service, though the box you put the docs in has huge opening (for binders, etc). I can just stick my hand in there! But having this service makes ppl feel “secure”. Many biz have imp non-obvious outcomes for the person selecting the solution
-
Not only feel but are contractually obligated to - regardless of if thats with shareholders, the government...
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
Also what’s fascinating is how businesses change to meet or not meet the changing world.
- 1 more reply
New conversation -
-
-
I think I've learnt more about how economies work from you than I have from 99% of economists I've followed...
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.