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Mary: do you subscribe to Adminprotoday? if so, this link should work for you for a sample office supply form(s): http://www.adminprotoday.com/forms–templates.html
PS: It includes wording to remind employees they're on an "Honor System"
My e-mail address is: mbrown@carolinaccc.com
I need a sample policy for managing office supplies i.e., employee request for supplies, designated days and times to pick up supplies, etc. I need ASAP!
Could someone please post their company’s policy and procedure for requesting supplies, to include timeslots for picking up supplies, etc.? I’m desparate!
In your employee handbook, which each employee should sign a receipt, it should state several rules (standards of conduct ) item which could cause disciplinary actions up to and including termination. Taking office supplies is considered theft and a majority of company will terminate employees for this reason. If you have this in your handbook or a policy then you have legal ground, provided that you have proof of the theft. I have found that emailing employees regarding this issue really doesn’t help. If they are going to steal then they will continue regardless of an email reminder or not.
Our “theft” got so bad, we had to lock the supplies in a cabinet and make one person responsible for the key. Now every time someone needs something, it is written down who and what department is getting it.
Institute an office supply “store” with a notebook so employees can list what they take for home use. Then you can bill them once a month or yearly.