When I moved to IT management I had a guy I didn't want to lose but whose attitude I needed to turn around. Lots of malicious compliance type stuff. When I came

When I moved to IT management I had a guy I didn't want to lose but whose attitude I needed to turn around. Lots of malicious compliance type stuff. When I came on board I expended a ton of goodwill capital on removing all desktop printers, just MFCs. He threw a fit when I lost a political battle and a crappy policy got implemented. My response was to let him know I was approving Katie the HR lady's latest request for a desktop printer and I needed him spec out the lowest price HP inkjet for me. Dude realized if I wasn't on his team things would have been much worse. Slowly I brought him around thanks to HP printers :)