Well if you remember the bottled water centi-thread then perhaps you remember the discussions on that thread about cost and where the 30M from was $2/bottle for 'SmartWater' * 3 bottles a day * 365 days a year * 14,200 employees. That was the "crazy worst case" number of $30,660,000 per year.
"If anyone believes that 2007 Google cared about 3M in the bank, I have a bridge to sell them."
And whatever they cared about the money ($3M or $30M) they cared even less about the impact on engineers choice of place to work by deciding to stop spending it. And that lack of caring was the entire point of the question. If you have the tape you can remind me offline what Eric's exact responses was, my best recollection was that it was as I gave it. (Not that I expected much different)
"If anyone believes that 2007 Google cared about 3M in the bank, I have a bridge to sell them."
And whatever they cared about the money ($3M or $30M) they cared even less about the impact on engineers choice of place to work by deciding to stop spending it. And that lack of caring was the entire point of the question. If you have the tape you can remind me offline what Eric's exact responses was, my best recollection was that it was as I gave it. (Not that I expected much different)