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zqps@sh.itjust.works 4 days agoThe number of employees is pretty meaningless in this context, and it’s telling that is the only metric you cite. The number of active users would be far more meaningful.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
Oh its telling of me, huh?
Tell me you’ve never worked in an industry that made or moved actual things without telling me you’ve never worked in an industry that made or moved actual things.
Active number of users on servers you are paying someone else to physically operate and maintain has nothing to do with orchestrating an international manufacturing and shipping program.
Its an entirely different animal.
zqps@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Yeah because that’s not totally something you can outsource just as easily.
You’re arguing as if Valve is a logistics company.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
I was an executive level data analyst for an international logistics middle man company, based in Seattle.
Yes, correct, you cannot infact outsource that just as easily, it is, as I said, an entirely different animal, with many different kinds of problems and costs, and potential problems and potential costs.
An enormous amount of logistics ultimately comes down to who knows, who, who introduces who to who, and who has what kind of reputation, with who.
You either pay a firm like the one I worked for a considerable premium in order to have them manage every single step of the process, every single link in the chain… or you try to do all that on your own, maybe hire a few new expert people to figure out how to do that.
I am arguing as if Valve is not a logistics company.
You are arguing as if you do not know anything about logistics at all.
zqps@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Yeah that explains why you think like a manager at a logistics company, not like one at a digital services provider that sells hardware on the side.
Their employee count has nothing to do with logistics. Their employees aren’t moving boxes around.