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This reminds me of the price/quality matrix: * Using your own money to buy something for yourself: price and quality matter. * Using your own money to buy som
by ed25519FUUU 6y ago
This reminds me of the price/quality matrix:
* Using your own money to buy something for yourself: price and quality matter.
* Using your own money to buy something for someone else. Price matters, not quality.
* Using other people's money to buy something for other people. Neither price nor quality matter.
It's one of the explanations for how we end up with so much waste with governments and organizations. They use other people's money to buy something for other people.
- harlanji 6y agoI’m a shopper at a grocery store and I do my best to shop like I’m shopping for myself. Am either fast or in my training grace period. I’m a terrible employee generally, too much care. I assume I’ll be fired and will do my best shopping until then. I did get the job randomly and had shopped there often prior, a clerk brought me to the hiring manager so it was easy to get hired. Of course each day it sinks in that it’s a business with managers and metrics. At least programming technical debt paid well, it seems clear that outside of boutique consulting it’s all about the numbers... good to know for sure.