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Why wouldn't you assume that if I'm asking for it I have a good reason? Are you going to rearchitect my system for me?
by JackFr 3y ago
Why wouldn't you assume that if I'm asking for it I have a good reason?
Are you going to rearchitect my system for me?
- syndicatedjelly 3y agoAccountability? Is that attitude any different from just asking for money and refusing to explain what it’s for?
- bandyaboot 3y agoWouldn’t you expected to have to provide some level of justification if you were, say, requesting a new development machine?
- Gud 3y agoThere is a difference between spending $2000+ on a new computer and $10, which is about what a terabyte costs. Probably just having the discussion itself would waste more resources than just giving the storage space.
- mrguyorama 3y agoThe meeting to bring in the relevant stakeholders and discuss that reasoning literally costs more than just fucking buying some cloud space.
- FireBeyond 3y agoHad a boss that would swoop into “suspicious” meetings. “There’s 10 people here whose time I bill out at $250/hr each, spending an hour discussing whether to buy a $1,000 software license? Why?”
- salawat 3y ago"Because you don't give us access to the financials, so we have no frigging idea if we can afford it, Frank." "Some of us don't like jumping into things without looking." I wager your boss would not be amused with me.