3 ms·

> I can understand layoffs when your business is running at a loss, not when it's growing. Do you revisit your personal budget only once you run out of money,

> I can understand layoffs when your business is running at a loss, not when it's growing. Do you revisit your personal budget only once you run out of money, or once your income changes?

machinawhite 4y ago
Do you also employ people and managers and use your personal budget solely to make profit instead of buying food? Stop the weird analogies
- edanm 4y ago
  It's not a weird analogy, it's a great analogy. Companies don't use their budget only for profit and not to "buy food", that's a ridiculous assertion. Companies get income, the use it to pay for all the operations that went into making that income, usually mostly salaries. Only what's left over is profit. And if a company sees that next year, when it expected income of 100m, it instead will only get 80m, that difference has got to affect it somehow.
  - machinawhite 4y ago
    Nope. Try again.
  - ryandrake 4y ago
    I think we are confusing derivatives here. No, when my income is growing from year to year, but just growing a little slower, I don't revisit my personal budget. I think these company leaders are seeing the second (or third) derivative starting to go down, and are panicking without actually losing money (base measurement) or revenue (first derivative).
- shapefrog 4y ago
  You gotta spend money to make money.
bart_spoon 4y ago
Mass layoffs aren’t the same as revisiting a personal budget. They are fairly drastic measures. To use your analogy, a layoff while revenue is growing is like continuing to get raises at work, but when this years raise isn’t as high as you expected, you start pawning off possessions for the cash. If times were dire, perhaps it makes sense. If you are still making money, it seems more prudent to tamp down on new purchases than to try and take back old ones.
- justapassenger 4y ago
  Employees are huge ongoing cost. You leased expensive new car, expecting to get a big raise. Big raise didn't happen. Do you keep the car?

> I can understand layoffs when your business is running at a loss, not when it's growing. Do you revisit your personal budget only once you run out of money, or once your income changes?

machinawhite 4y ago

Do you also employ people and managers and use your personal budget solely to make profit instead of buying food? Stop the weird analogies

edanm 4y ago
It's not a weird analogy, it's a great analogy. Companies don't use their budget only for profit and not to "buy food", that's a ridiculous assertion. Companies get income, the use it to pay for all the operations that went into making that income, usually mostly salaries. Only what's left over is profit. And if a company sees that next year, when it expected income of 100m, it instead will only get 80m, that difference has got to affect it somehow.
- machinawhite 4y ago
  Nope. Try again.
- ryandrake 4y ago
  I think we are confusing derivatives here. No, when my income is growing from year to year, but just growing a little slower, I don't revisit my personal budget. I think these company leaders are seeing the second (or third) derivative starting to go down, and are panicking without actually losing money (base measurement) or revenue (first derivative).
shapefrog 4y ago
You gotta spend money to make money.

bart_spoon 4y ago

Mass layoffs aren’t the same as revisiting a personal budget. They are fairly drastic measures. To use your analogy, a layoff while revenue is growing is like continuing to get raises at work, but when this years raise isn’t as high as you expected, you start pawning off possessions for the cash. If times were dire, perhaps it makes sense. If you are still making money, it seems more prudent to tamp down on new purchases than to try and take back old ones.

justapassenger 4y ago
Employees are huge ongoing cost. You leased expensive new car, expecting to get a big raise. Big raise didn't happen. Do you keep the car?