The price of a Big Mac
How many Gorske is that weekly meeting costing you, really?
Wondering how much money some pointless, reoccurring task is costing your team? Ever wondered what that would be in Big Macs? How about a lot of Big Macs?
In honour of the authors previous colleagues (and good friends), I’d like to present the Gorske Calculator.
To quote Wikipedia on an absolute hero [1]:
""" Donald A. Gorske (born November 28, 1953) is an American world record holder known as the “Big Mac enthusiast”. He is best known for having eaten 30,000 Big Mac hamburgers from the U.S. fast food chain McDonald’s in his lifetime, winning him a place in the Guinness Book of Records.
"""
Let me introduce you to the final level of thinking; Comparing pointless costs to a Gorske unit - 30,000 Big Macs.
At the time of writing, one Gorske comes out to $192,000 Australian Dollarydoos.
- Got a weekly, 1 hour -timewaster- meeting, with eight people? The average salary at about AUD 100,000? That’s 0.1 Gorske (3,125 Big Macs/year).
- Got a monthly, 2 hour -massive timewaster- all-hands meeting, with 150 staff, at similar FTE costs? That’s almost one whole Gorske (29,296 Big Macs/year);
- Got a thing which costs your team of 8, on average, 4 hours a week each? 0.4 Gorske (12,500 Big Macs/year)
- CI takes forever? Team of 8, mostly waiting for test runners on underprovisioned hardware for half their week? 2 Gorske a year (62,500 Big Macs/year)
It makes you think if the cost of that $300/year license is actually that expensive, or if you should just buy a second-hand NUC and stick it in someone’s cupboard.
See it at http://gorskecalculator.com/.