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> you are welcome to use your salary to obtain it > 9% of the time, you buy a new web server on your own credit card and the manager brags to his boss about
by ErrantX 5y ago
> you are welcome to use your salary to obtain it
> 9% of the time, you buy a new web server on your own credit card and the manager brags to his boss about coming in under budget
I.... genuinely can't believe this is a common line. Companies do ask people to do ridiculous things in return for very little remuneration. But to fund the company yourself?
(I do get the point your making BTW but the example can't be real!)
> a previous employer stated that a competent sysadmin would never lose data, so back-ups were a waste of money and made admins pay for them out of pocket.
The first part of that sounds like the natural tech-illiteracy of a business leader; the second part says they don't believe their own schtick.
- rprospero 5y ago> The first part of that sounds like the natural tech-illiteracy of a business leader; the second part says they don't believe their own schtick. You're right that what I wrote did sound that way, but that's because my wording wasn't correct. No one was ever "forced" to pay for back ups. One guy decided that he wasn't going to pay for them himself. After a couple of years, his server went down and there was no back-up. The boss fired him for negligence and then sent the server off to an expensive data-retrieval company. Legal then began a lawsuit against him, asking for the cost of the data-retrieval to be repaid. Also, any time someone called for an employment reference, the canned response was "We're in the middle of a negligence lawsuit against him at the moment, so the legal department says that all I can do is confirm that he worked here." Eventually, he reached a settlement with the company for about half of the data recovery costs. However, no other admin ever dared not making their own personal back-ups again.