Yeah. It’s always fun “convincing” the bean-counters that spending money is usually cheaper “in the long run”.
Soecifically, my department was refurbishing laptops to enable us to keep our new hires supplied with computers. We asked for a nice new computer for a department VP coming in, and we got told to send a refurb. That guy put in about a dozen tickets in the first week about how one of the desk workers had a newer computer. We just sent those straight to the team that denied giving us the money for new computers.
And because management lacks nuance, that extra budget came with a new policy…“No more refurbished computers”. So when an intern got hired, and all we had was a few refurbs and a 2200 dollar executive 2-in-1 ultra book, we sent the ultra book. After 3 layers of that guy’s bosses submitted immediate tickets demanding to have their brand new, lower spec machines replaced, accounting finally decided that they should let my team do the work we were hired to do.
Malicious compliance does wonders to solve issues with stupid rules. One of my “favorite” gigs was full of me going “we’ve done it this way for a while, despite policy saying to do it this other way, can we update policy to just have us do it the right way instead of the documented way”, being told “no, do it by policy”, then a week or two of me doing it by policy before being told “policy is updated to <what I said it should have been from the start>”.
…and that shaggy MF wants $40,000,000 for next years hardware refresh and 8yr support licensing.
Source: I am that shaggy MF.
and you get just about through the door and they already are saying no.
Part of my job is to to scare finance into saying “yes”. Recent news headlines over the last two years have made my job a lot easier.
Yeah. It’s always fun “convincing” the bean-counters that spending money is usually cheaper “in the long run”.
Soecifically, my department was refurbishing laptops to enable us to keep our new hires supplied with computers. We asked for a nice new computer for a department VP coming in, and we got told to send a refurb. That guy put in about a dozen tickets in the first week about how one of the desk workers had a newer computer. We just sent those straight to the team that denied giving us the money for new computers.
And because management lacks nuance, that extra budget came with a new policy…“No more refurbished computers”. So when an intern got hired, and all we had was a few refurbs and a 2200 dollar executive 2-in-1 ultra book, we sent the ultra book. After 3 layers of that guy’s bosses submitted immediate tickets demanding to have their brand new, lower spec machines replaced, accounting finally decided that they should let my team do the work we were hired to do.
Malicious compliance does wonders to solve issues with stupid rules. One of my “favorite” gigs was full of me going “we’ve done it this way for a while, despite policy saying to do it this other way, can we update policy to just have us do it the right way instead of the documented way”, being told “no, do it by policy”, then a week or two of me doing it by policy before being told “policy is updated to <what I said it should have been from the start>”.
Lol i scared the shit out of them on some data breach fines one time.