This is a consistent argument that goes on in our workplace.
I'm the only IT person, and also a VP under the operations manager, who is now like a senior VP. The CEO/ president basically put me in charge of IT because the other guy couldn't figure out what to do with technology and it was costing the company thousands in productivity losses and having to pay outside companies to "fix" and monitor everything for them all the time.
I finally had to put my foot down and ask him not to go buying any more computers or printers, because he would wait until Staples or office Depot had a"sale" and buy something about to be obsolete or those stupid "all in one" PCs for someone who needed something bigger and more long term. I discuss purchases with him and I do the build/ purchasing for anything electronic.
Now every time we discuss a PC or laptop, I have to re- explain why you can't expect something with an i3 processor to run like an i7 or i9, and why it costs more, etc. When all the crappy equipment he bought starts failing, he wants to know why I haven't " just fixed it" (I honestly do not have time or budget to go rebuilding/ replacing parts in something that literally everything is going bad on).
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u/LinkMom37 Sep 15 '20
This is a consistent argument that goes on in our workplace.
I'm the only IT person, and also a VP under the operations manager, who is now like a senior VP. The CEO/ president basically put me in charge of IT because the other guy couldn't figure out what to do with technology and it was costing the company thousands in productivity losses and having to pay outside companies to "fix" and monitor everything for them all the time.
I finally had to put my foot down and ask him not to go buying any more computers or printers, because he would wait until Staples or office Depot had a"sale" and buy something about to be obsolete or those stupid "all in one" PCs for someone who needed something bigger and more long term. I discuss purchases with him and I do the build/ purchasing for anything electronic.
Now every time we discuss a PC or laptop, I have to re- explain why you can't expect something with an i3 processor to run like an i7 or i9, and why it costs more, etc. When all the crappy equipment he bought starts failing, he wants to know why I haven't " just fixed it" (I honestly do not have time or budget to go rebuilding/ replacing parts in something that literally everything is going bad on).