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The cost of those items is incredible trivial compared to the salary they paid you.

There is a sort of quirk here that causes people to focus on things like this, even if they are overwhelmingly insubstantial.

Wasting physical objects feels bad. Something about the physicality of it. Whereas salary is more abstract and intangible - we experience it as numbers changing on a screen. Important numbers that greatly affect our lives, but the visceral impact of this is more removed.

Reducing waste is good, obviously. But in a cost-saving effort, basic office supplies are a completely useless thing to focus on.