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If your client is a medium to large sized company, it may also be a case of needing to use budget or have budget reduced the next year. A place I once worked o
by KMag 13y ago
If your client is a medium to large sized company, it may also be a case of needing to use budget or have budget reduced the next year.
A place I once worked one year had a big budget surplus. They bought a Winnebago, affectionately named the Waltabago after Walt, the guy who ran the team. The next year, Walt bought a Sunfire V1280 with his leftover budget. Walt was a good manager and generally a good guy. It's just that the nature of his business had unpredictable ups and downs, so he was incentivized to make justifiable but wasteful purchases in order to avoid over-spending in peak cost years.
- keithpeter 13y agoDid you get to borrow the Winnebago? We call this need to spend the budget thing 'slippage' in the UK. Once we had a little bit of slippage, about £1k, so we bought some Sony Mavica floppy disk cameras when they were new and exotic. We just lent them out to staff to learn how to take digital pictures. That lead to digital editing, storyboards &c and quite a lot of upskill. Much better powerpoints. Just a thought...
- reboog711 13y ago> it may also be a case of needing to use budget or have budget reduced the next year. That could very well be a consideration.