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Re:Apollo Global is buying Rackspace for $4.3B by pasbesoin on Friday August 26, 2016 @11:25AM (#12366886)
Look up the terms "profit center" and "cost center". As soon as you hear your area being described as a "cost center", start looking for another job.
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Re:Apollo Global is buying Rackspace for $4.3B by wpietri on Friday August 26, 2016 @12:43PM (#12367443)
It's such a great example of how accounting drives insane decisions. I will die happy if I can get people to stop thinking in terms of profit vs cost and instead think in terms of value and waste, as the Lean Manufacturing people do.
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