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weaktwosI had a discussion with a coworker who is in charge of a project to replace monitors in our region with flat panel monitors.
This is one of those moments where I have to throw my hands up in the air and shout, "men!". He's got the business sense of a gnat.
Despite my lack of fondness for the choices my company currently makes, I don't like to see us waste money before it is time. I won't go into detail as to what he's proposing, because it's dull to the casual observer. To make a long story short, however, he wants to pull a "switcheroo" that entails us disposing of monitors that, though not pretty (the plastic around the monitor is old), are still working just fine. So, this entails us spending our money ahead of time and disposing of equipment too early. His arguments for what he's trying to avoid are silly. When the monitor swap-out project is set to occur (whenever that happens), he doesn't want to have to give as many of the old working monitors away to the employees (for that's the plan eventually). That even sucks more. He wants to deny employees of a free perk, and incur an expense on new equipment earlier. Forget the fact that there's an expense with disposing of our equipment, and that it ends up in a landfill. Forget that it is a nice gesture of good will to give employees our old equipment that still works. There are some people who just don't have a lot of extra money for that stuff. Dumbshit.
This is one of those moments where I have to throw my hands up in the air and shout, "men!". He's got the business sense of a gnat.
Despite my lack of fondness for the choices my company currently makes, I don't like to see us waste money before it is time. I won't go into detail as to what he's proposing, because it's dull to the casual observer. To make a long story short, however, he wants to pull a "switcheroo" that entails us disposing of monitors that, though not pretty (the plastic around the monitor is old), are still working just fine. So, this entails us spending our money ahead of time and disposing of equipment too early. His arguments for what he's trying to avoid are silly. When the monitor swap-out project is set to occur (whenever that happens), he doesn't want to have to give as many of the old working monitors away to the employees (for that's the plan eventually). That even sucks more. He wants to deny employees of a free perk, and incur an expense on new equipment earlier. Forget the fact that there's an expense with disposing of our equipment, and that it ends up in a landfill. Forget that it is a nice gesture of good will to give employees our old equipment that still works. There are some people who just don't have a lot of extra money for that stuff. Dumbshit.
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Date: 2004-01-29 08:59 pm (UTC)One company I worked for would let us buy the old computers. Most of us thought it was a rip off, but I guess some of them went for it.