Mastodawn

Me: "We're understaffed. This leads to sloppy, inefficient execution and the whole team is stressed out. We need more engineers."

Boss: "I know and I agree. But we need to show more revenue before the execs will approve more reqs."

Me: "We just made the most revenue ever. If we're unwilling to invest in our team now, we never will."

Boss: "Uhh... hmmmm"

I have this convo with my boss every year. This is why I don't really care whether our projects succeed or fail.

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zand

@leaf It might be better to go over the profits and missed potential during the past 10 years or so. Last year could have been profitable, but there could be a fear that the next years won't be. Ironically, they probably won't hire staff until it starts to negatively impact profits.