>> They don't pay out of pocket, which would generally be illegal in most First World nations... I've been at an employer where the procurement process was so

>> They don't pay out of pocket, which would generally be illegal in most First World nations... I've been at an employer where the procurement process was so arduous that employees were encouraged to just buy some things themselves, or risk not meeting MBOs (e.g., cloud compute instances, licenses for desktop software, etc.) In most cases, the manager forked out their personal credit card (realizing they would not meet their MBO and would lose out on a much larger bonus.) Not saying this is acceptable, just that is does happen.