Anyone with some experience with something like this?
I had a leak in January that perfectly lined up with an actual reading. The estimated bill afterward was so high that the next actual reading was a few hundred dollars into the negative. I'd paid it because I wasn't sure if their leak allowance would cover it, but it did so we haven't had to pay again since, which is nice I guess.
Pretty sure we'll be back up to zero dollars this month.
Do you think your company would give you 5 weeks off ?
I just asked for an extra week of annual leave instead of a tiny annual payrise back in the early days of COVID and they didn't even bat an eye.
Assuming you have the ability to unpaid leave once your four weeks are used up, five weeks is the equivalent of a ~1.9% pay rise. It's a trivial cost in and of itself, though that is ignoring those jobs which are difficult to find cover for and might need hiring a temp or similar overheads.
That's a huge part of why we have 8 hour days/40 hour weeks/paid break times/etc. It's less about workers' rights, and more about folks being more productive when not overworked.
It's not quite that bad (yet...) - it has reasonably clearly labelled subscription and non-subscription cartridges. So when you cancel the subscription, you just throw the non-subscription cartridge back in.
If you're printing quite a lot, but not enough to justify a laser printer, then they can work out okay. The vast majority of people would indeed be wasting money though.
I had a leak in January that perfectly lined up with an actual reading. The estimated bill afterward was so high that the next actual reading was a few hundred dollars into the negative. I'd paid it because I wasn't sure if their leak allowance would cover it, but it did so we haven't had to pay again since, which is nice I guess.
Pretty sure we'll be back up to zero dollars this month.