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I work with people who are well smart enough to know that. It’s also still a reasonable question to ask “well, last year we budgeted $15M and you got acceptabl
by sokoloff 4mo ago
I work with people who are well smart enough to know that.
It’s also still a reasonable question to ask “well, last year we budgeted $15M and you got acceptable results while spending only $14M; perhaps you only need $14M/yr…” And despite its reasonableness, many people would prefer to oversee a $15M/yr budget.
- jaredsohn 4mo agoI think a reason for this is suppose the next year you run into some difficulties so it requires 14.2M. Now you have to fight to request an extra 0.2M added to your budget that you wouldn't have to worry about if you had 15M.
- sokoloff 4mo agoTotally! And it drives me crazy to get very few questions and mostly positive ones if I underspend by 5-10% but going over by 1-2% is a massive problem. It’s little surprise what happens under such a system: logical people over-reserve.