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>Engineers in particular are usually very highly paid Cost Centers, which sets MBA’s optimization antennae to twitching. How?! They delivered the product in th
by FLUX-YOU 12y ago
>Engineers in particular are usually very highly paid Cost Centers, which sets MBA’s optimization antennae to twitching.
How?! They delivered the product in the first place! There's a million idea guys looking for a Woz to their Jobs on Craigslist. How many Woz's do you see looking for their Jobs? CEOs are the damn cost center with their exobitant benefit package that still gets handed out even if they sink the company. Engineers add features and improve the workflow to make it easier to use. Engineers give Sales its ammo. Because it's not the actual engineer that's fired from the cannon means they're now a cost center?
I don't understand this shit and from what I've seen on the business side (especially with how the south does business), I think I'd rather shoot myself with a cannon before spending 20 years doing what I'm doing now.
- mynameishere 12y agoHow?! They delivered the product in the first place Yes, at Microsoft, where programmers are profit centers [1]. At GEICO, JP Morgan, Disney, Pfizer, Alcoa, etc, they are cost centers, on a level with accountants and HR. (What is the profit center at GEICO? Actuaries? Salesmen? Warren Buffet's kindly pig face? Talking lizards?) [1] Hence this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhh_GeBPOhs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhh_GeBPOhs
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- georgeecollins 12y agoGEICO's profit center is the return on the equity they hold as collateral for insurance policies.