From: Meghan Jones, Travel & Meeting Services
mjones@blackanddecker.com
To: <mailing list>
Subject: Travel Budget Cuts Effective Immediately
Dear Traveling Executives:
We need you to start using some of the budget suggestions we are going to issue as a separate
memorandum. These include using videoconference equipment instead of traveling to meetings,
staying in cheaper hotels, arranging flights for cheaper times, and flying from less-convenientless convenient but also
less-expensivealso less expensive suburban airports.
The company needs to cut travel expenses by fifty percent, just as we’ve cut cotscosts in all departments of
Black & Decker. This means you’ll no longer be able to stay in fancy hoteshotels and make last-minute, costly
changes to your travel plans.
You’ll also be expected to wifiWiFi internet surcharges. Compose your email offline when you’re in the
hotel. And never return a rental car with an empty tank! That causes the rental agency to charge us a
premium price for the gas they sell when they willfill it up upon your return.
You’ll be expected to make these changes in your travel habits immediately.
M. Jones
Travel & Marketing Services.