When times are tough for businesses, cutting benefits is one thing. Some benefits, however, should be untouchable.
Hit by hurricanes and general economic malaise, the government of Cuba has announced that businesses and consumers in general may have to make do, so to speak, with shortages of toilet paper.
Cuba has for years imported part of its toilet paper supplies. The problem is that last year’s hurricanes destroyed many of the island’s raw materials, including those used in the manufacture of toilet paper.
As a result, to meet, er, uh, demand, imports will have to rise at a time when Cuba can least afford to pay for them. All of which means that workers there are likely to find that workplace restrooms may be missing a key component from time to time.
On the bright side, newspaper sales are expected to rise.
