Are you one of those devs that mistakenly assumes that you salary constitutes 90% of your cost to the company, when in fact it’s closer to 40%?

You want me to spend an hour trying to save the company $100? We just spent $250. And that’s not the half of it. If the company is expecting me to result in $5 in revenue for every dollar they spend on me, we really just lost out on more than $1000.

I’ve worked many places where we didn’t think about opportunity costs. I’ve also been laid off many times.