and the renderfarm was never the same
so you say you’re the fatcat of a technology company and you need to trim the fat? let’s go through the checklist:
- you’ve laid off all the right people (actually you probably laid off the wrong people but…)
- you’ve asked the remaining staff to take pay cuts ‘for a short while’ and take on more responsibility.
- you’ve cancelled the maintenance contracts for all your software licenses. ‘what could happen?’.
- you’ve cancelled the daily bagel and krispy kreme order. oh yeah, everybody pays for soda now.
- since there’s less activity you put your accounting and systems people on call or part-time.
- ‘what benefits?’
ok, so far… so good. but you forgot the most important thing, the hardware. here’s one solution: ‘The Silicon Graphics Refrigerator Project’
remember, if the company cancels ‘beer night’… it’s game over.