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Re:How many of you know that the team is working on somethin... by malux85 on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @02:19AM (#23536414)
Yeah I thought this exactly. If he had any brains he’d negotiate with management a 5x bonus for solving it, tied to achieving the 10x optimisations

I did this several times in my early career and was paid a lot and it was win/win

You have to phrase it carefully, but if you phrase it as a win/win with no risk, they’ll sign off on it

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Re:How many of you know that the team is working on somethin... by fxtentacle on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @02:54AM (#23536586)
I had a similar situation, but it didn't go through. I offered to reduce the company-wide monthly costs by 5% in exchange for 40k once by replacing an outside vendor with my own self-developed clone which the company would then own. Didn't go through because our investors feared an increased dependency on me as an employee.
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Re:How many of you know that the team is working on somethin... by itronitron on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @03:35AM (#23536783)
funny how in any other type of relationship that increased dependency would be considered a strength and not a risk
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