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> suspect the average enterprise Java engineer has more discretionary spending Engineers get discretionary spending? I haven't ever had a dollar discretionary
by Pet_Ant 5y ago
> suspect the average enterprise Java engineer has more discretionary spending
Engineers get discretionary spending? I haven't ever had a dollar discretionary. My last job paid for an ergo mouse for me (Logitech Vertical) at hire time and I was so ecstatic at the park and got myself a jumbo mousepad to go with it.
Is there a norm I'm not aware of?
- mLuby 5y agoSame, though I've heard of expensing software or business books, and of course conferences.
- bsder 5y ago> Is there a norm I'm not aware of? Maybe? Everywhere I've worked in the US, I always had some level of discretionary spend--even as a lowly summer intern at a behemoth like IBM. It could be software; it could be books; it could be training; it could be computer hardware; it could be lab equipment; it could be groceries or office supplies. As an intern, I bought some of the first O'Reilly books (mostly about X11) at the Cucumber Book Shop in Bethesda, Maryland courtesy of IBM. As someone way more senior, I once put a T3 line card (about $15K at the time) on my credit card in order to break a budgetary logjam between two feuding departments (and made BOTH of them angry at me--it was beautiful). Obviously, the more junior I was--the less the value of that spend was. And it went up as I became more senior. And I always had to provide receipts and maybe a bit of justification. But I've always had some level of discretionary cash spending at even the crappiest companies I've worked for.
- kyawzazaw 5y agoyeah at my company. they just submit a small ticket