For a college student, you ought to know better than that!

Buy what you're short of.

Luckily he reminded me; otherwise I'd have forgotten all about it.

The more interesting questions, though, are how much it costs you to add capacity, and whether there’s a certain number of requests above which you start to make or lose money.

Obviously if you suck at your job, or the company is losing money hand over fist, you don’t stand a snowballs chance, ultimatum or no ultimatum.