How to fix permissions so everyone in office can read

In our office, we have two MacBook Pros (running Mavericks 10.9.2) and a Mac mini (running 10.7.5).
We're routinely running into problems reading & writing on the Mac mini for files and folders.
For instance, from my MacBook Pro, I just created a new folder under another folder on our Mac mini. I saved 3 files there from my MacBook Pro.
But, now the person using the Mac mini can't open those files.
What's more is that, even though I created the folder and saved the files there, I can't change permissions for Staff or Everyone from "Read Only" to "Read & Write."
How can we permanently default all files on one MacBook Pro and the Mac mini to "Read & Write" access for everyone?
And, how can we create these same defaults for all files & folder ever created on the Mac mini?
Thank you for any help you can provide.

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Hi,
I'm afraid I might have followed bad advice to solve a problem, which then got me into serious problems. Here's my "story":
I'm running Mac OSX 10.9.1 on an iMac (2.66 GHz Core 2 Duo). The computer is used by the whole family, so we have 6 user accounts.
Initial problem: The system requested an admin password every time I wanted to move an item to trash or away from the desktop.
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Chose "Get info" and the Permissions-section.
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considering your "background history", repairing the permissions was not a bad idea.
However, as explained in "About Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions feature", repairing the Permissions with Disk Utility does not affect user data.
Here is what I can think about
1. I already had issues with Disk Utility not performing as expected, while its command line counterpart never failed for me. I then suggest you to try repair permissions using Terminal
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Process: Microsoft Excel [494]
Path: /Applications/Microsoft Office X/Microsoft Excel
Identifier: com.microsoft.Excel
Version: 10.0.0 (10.0.0)
Code Type: PPC (Translated)
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1 ??? 0x800c39bc 0 + 2148284860
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