Re:Is a billion dollars worth of server lying on the ground?
by AtlasBarfed on Monday November 02, 2020 @10:49PM
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Yeah, I wanted an extra person on our desperately understaffed team, so I proposed I cut about a million bucks of spending year-on-year from AWS.
They didn't want to increase the head count. The AWS spend was a different silo/team/contract.
Corporate accounting is insane.
It almost smelled like "well, we negotiated this great AWS discount, so it doesn't bother us that we are spending an extra million. We're getting it at a DISCOUNT!"
Is there some MBA trend where every headcount is some ticking time bomb of liability that is 10x worse than their yearly salary?
You spend 150k on servers, they don't improve over a year.
You spend 150k on a decent employee, not even rockstar ninja 100xer, and they will deliver useful, although sometimes hidden, productivity and optimization.
They didn't want to increase the head count. The AWS spend was a different silo/team/contract.
Corporate accounting is insane.
It almost smelled like "well, we negotiated this great AWS discount, so it doesn't bother us that we are spending an extra million. We're getting it at a DISCOUNT!"
Is there some MBA trend where every headcount is some ticking time bomb of liability that is 10x worse than their yearly salary?
You spend 150k on servers, they don't improve over a year.
You spend 150k on a decent employee, not even rockstar ninja 100xer, and they will deliver useful, although sometimes hidden, productivity and optimization.