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> If I really, really care about your product, I’ll contact the 300 people I need on my side to get it approved. This process will take at least a month. Why? W
by Simon_O_Rourke 2y ago
> If I really, really care about your product, I’ll contact the 300 people I need on my side to get it approved. This process will take at least a month. Why? Who knows—it just always does. If I work for a Fortune 500 company, it’ll take a minimum of three months, assuming everything goes perfectly.
This pretty much chimes with my experiences getting anything that costs more than my boss can readily expense. Purchase agreements in large companies are pure hell.
- bjackman 2y agoAlso sometimes for things that cost amounts I could easily expense I've been going through a purchase order process for a bunch of patch cables and adapters so cheap I could even expense them without a receipt. It's taking months. They're being delivered by air freight. My heart and soul are aching.
- einsteinx2 2y agoHonest question, why are you going through that purchase order process if you could easily expense them?
- FireBeyond 2y agoOur company has a policy that regardless of expense and approval limits, certain things must always be done a certain way - "libraries that will end up in our software", and other things that the business "may depend on" - not saying that's the case here, but I can see it.
- einsteinx2 2y agoAh ok yeah makes sense, what a PITA.