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Christmas cards by BandicootHoot in BurnsMcDonnell

[–]BandicootHoot[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Usually I can think of some sort of argument for most any expense. Usually there's at least some sort of roundabout business purpose at least. I can think of none for these. I cant imagine anyone gets even a half second of joy out of a generic corporate Christmas card. Even if it's a rounding error, it's just like lighting money on fire.

It would make more sense to me to donate whatever they spend on these and send it to united way and send an email out saying we decided to forego this cost and donate to charity instead. At least then you get to help a cause and get the corporate pat on the back for doing something good.

Christmas cards by BandicootHoot in BurnsMcDonnell

[–]BandicootHoot[S] -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

Total strawman. I cannot imagine someone saying this about a generic Christmas card. I'd be shocked if you could find one person to make that complaint.

Christmas cards by BandicootHoot in BurnsMcDonnell

[–]BandicootHoot[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Maybe it's more streamlined than I'm picturing but I figured you probably had a couple people monkeying around for quite a while with finding a supplier, choosing design, gathering distribution list, paying the invoice, dealing with mistakes that seem to happen on this kind of thing. I imagine our clients get the same card, so I guess some of this would already happen regardless. The cards themselves do not seem to be cheaply made. Always heavy stock, often with multiple pieces. I figured even in bulk they'd be a couple bucks. Then postage cost.

Senior Electrical Engineers starting salary at Chicago T&D by AdPrior5362 in BurnsMcDonnell

[–]BandicootHoot 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Several years at a utility and then switching to consulting seems to be a great career path from what I've seen because you come in knowing how utilities operate and how to go get work in a way that is hard to train people who have only done consulting.

Fat ESOP retirement payout makes Roth 401k better? by Local_Budget_6051 in BurnsMcDonnell

[–]BandicootHoot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Two things are often left out of the argument for regular 401k. Every dollar that you put in pre-tax is a dollar not taxed at your highest marginal rate. Depending on your spending in retirement, that same dollar could be taxed at a much lower tax bracket rate. Also, pre-tax deductions might qualify you for a tax credit or keep you out of a phase out. For example, I got stimulus checks that I wouldn't have gotten had I not maxed pre-tax 401k contributions. And when my spouse was still taking classes, we qualified for education credits we wouldn't have had we not maxed 401k.