Musk to review all of Tesla's expenses in new cost cutting plan

Re:Musk to review all of Tesla's expenses in new cost cuttin... by barbecue_sauce on Saturday May 18, 2019 @08:23PM (#19950540)

$100 seems like a pretty extreme threshold. Would make more sense to have a budget for a group or an individual, then only require approval once the budget has been depleted (though I guess this could potentially incentivize overspending instead).

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Re:Musk to review all of Tesla's expenses in new cost cuttin... by taf2 on Saturday May 18, 2019 @09:08PM (#19950727)

* 1000 to 10000 people making those $100 purchases maybe not too extreme? Said they posted over a billion so I’d guess pretty large number of employees

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Re:Musk to review all of Tesla's expenses in new cost cuttin... by digsy on Saturday May 18, 2019 @10:16PM (#19950996)

The issue isn't the $100 limit - the issue is having the CEO give approval.

I would expect that such a small amount would be approved by someone much closer to the engineers on the hierarchy.

Not to mention what a poor use of the CEOs time!

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Re:Musk to review all of Tesla's expenses in new cost cuttin... by freyr on Sunday May 19, 2019 @04:01AM (#19952099)

> what a poor use of the CEOs time!

Not if it keeps him off Twitter.

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Re:Musk to review all of Tesla's expenses in new cost cuttin... by selectodude on Saturday May 18, 2019 @11:57PM (#19951348)

"let's pay this guy $800/hr to approve $110 purchases"

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