Nice t'know

[tugrik]

So here I am, sitting in a meeting, with my laptop on wireless connection. After one bossman challenges another about the worth of their people, we spend about 45 minutes doing a full cost analysis of how much money we make from specific parts of customer contracts. Challenging each other, they get down to brass tacks: which employees are directly resrponsible for which parts and just exactly how much all the costs are... figuring out a real profit-per-employee that simply wouldn't exist were those employees not individually there. Things were pretty even-stevens until my boss got down to me, with his usual snerk about not believing I'm doing enough.

It turns out that I'm responsible $380,000/yr of pure profit thanks to what I do for my company; the highest of the lot.

I told them all "You're welcome." and walked out of the meeting. The grin on the head honcho's face was priceless. :)

Comments

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

Hmm, you need to get paid more. ('gryn)

[sassinak.livejournal.com]

Excellent! That must've been oh so satisfying!

[scyllacat.livejournal.com]

It's why I love you. I know how good you are, and I believe in you, for all your silly gadget-chasing. :)

[brahma-minotaur.livejournal.com]

Way to go, Tugrik! That'll teach them.

[traveller-blues.livejournal.com]

Heh. I know the feeling, since something I did once sealed a deal that was worth a pretty hefty chunk of change with a company -- and I was rather disappointed they didn't pay me more of a commission for it. (I did get a bonus, admittedly, but nothing on the same magnitude of what they were press-releasing.)

But then again, they pay us whether they make a profit or not, unless things get really bad, so I suppose it all evens out in the end...

-Traveller.