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I work in finance and think I understand gp’s meaning. Although the end part sounds like They’re playing favorites with budget dollars which is essentially whe
by conductr 5y ago
I work in finance and think I understand gp’s meaning. Although the end part sounds like They’re playing favorites with budget dollars which is essentially where office politics comes into play and not exactly in a way that’s in the best interest of the company.
However, the problem I see is that teams (hr, legal, etc) generally can’t be trusted to make decent technology decisions. They could blow $10M on something that sits on the shelf because they were “sold” or worse it disrupts the entire organization in the process of a failed implementation. Both we see happen regularly throughout the organization. Finance is responsible for vetting every possible point of failure which is why we are risk adverse, or appear so.
- Vaslo 5y agoI think you captured it more elegantly than I did. I know it sounds like playing favorites but consider it’s not just me I look at out for. If our IT Business Analyst Jill helps all the people in our business and everyone raves about how helpful she is, I have a lot more trust than the guy who scolds his employee for taking calls at 4 that my be issues because it’s the end of the day and he didn’t want to stay late fixing issues (I swear on my life another manager and I overheard this badgering occur). If it’s Jill vs him asking for a headcount, Jill is getting it all day long.
- conductr 5y agoThat’s exactly what playing favorites is. If his headcount is more impactful to achieve company goals, he gets it. You need to learn to compartmentalize If you feel someone is deserving of punishment, they should know why and it shouldn’t be through your budgetary control. It’s a misuse of power.