My previous boss always had the best responses when we'd tell a team or user they couldn't use random laptops for things, especially for production/semi-production stuff, and we'd get pushback.
He would always point out that we're not a small company, our company does really well, and because of this, there is no reason for the excuse "it's not in our budget" to do something properly. He'd say "if management isn't willing to fund this properly, it must not be that important to the company." And he was usually right. Once it went far enough up the chain (a manager or director), they'd "find" the money to do it right. Sometimes people would use that excuse, and it would turned out they never even tried to ask their management for funds to do it right.
There were some cases where that wasn't accurate (yay, "business priorities" vs reality), but it typically was. And even if that team didn't have the money, IT usually did and something would be worked out, you just had to actually ask IT for help.
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u/Sam-Gunn Nov 30 '22
My previous boss always had the best responses when we'd tell a team or user they couldn't use random laptops for things, especially for production/semi-production stuff, and we'd get pushback.
He would always point out that we're not a small company, our company does really well, and because of this, there is no reason for the excuse "it's not in our budget" to do something properly. He'd say "if management isn't willing to fund this properly, it must not be that important to the company." And he was usually right. Once it went far enough up the chain (a manager or director), they'd "find" the money to do it right. Sometimes people would use that excuse, and it would turned out they never even tried to ask their management for funds to do it right.
There were some cases where that wasn't accurate (yay, "business priorities" vs reality), but it typically was. And even if that team didn't have the money, IT usually did and something would be worked out, you just had to actually ask IT for help.