Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login I accidentally saved my company half a million dollars ( mataroa.blog ) 1021 points by softskunk 2 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 453 comments CobaltFire 2 days ago | next [–] I feel this entire post. My career record (US Navy) for cost savings was something over $50MM. Every time I did something I had to do PowerPoints, present to Flag Officers, etc. Hell, once I almost got hugely punished because I didn't let my boss take the credit (he had no desire to because he had zero idea what it was I even did). Note that some of that was as a Lean Six-Sigma Black Belt doing Enterprise projects (I hate every single bit of terminology in that entire godforsaken sentence), where it was literally my JOB to save the DOD as much money as possible with the least disruption possible. Those were th...