All these layoffs and all this money we need to save and wasting money on privacy days and eagle days. Get a grip save the money all these costs for travel. Priorities people
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@ax finally, someone who gets it. Team builders, conferences, planning sessions, those are nothing compared to what we pay in procurement contracts.
Myself and team expensed an entire two days around this and it was “ fit enough to have been an email “ it was the blind leading the blind but I will say they had great team building, and food was pretty good. We used it as a networking event. And before someone from privacy comes at me; relax and take the feedback - understood?
I'm going to go ahead and be "that guy" and note that those things aren't even a drop in the bucket compared to even a single person's total comp.
2X your salary and that's about what they budget for you every year. Add in bonuses plus executive bonus structure and you easily run into the millions for a small team.
You want to talk about REAL waste? Try signing a $250 million contract with IBM for a ChatGPT wrapper that might not even work. That's the real grift.
Waste of time and money and no one knows what to do all day . But get free food