Make Sure You Know Better --Dickeson

They try to tell people that the cost accounting system is just a convenient fiction—but nobody hears them. "You guys saying our costs aren't really our costs? Come on, buddy-boy, you kidding us? Whom are we supposed to believe?"

Reducing headcount (or firing people, as Donald Trump says) is truly the way increased efficiency can reduce real costs. But firing trained, skillful, knowledgeable people who've improved our efficiency to the point it makes their job redundant is a helluva way to reduce costs! It's deadly. That's the awful truth of the matter. Disagree? Do you have a better way of reducing real out-of-pocket costs? Tell us about it.