He Knows The Software Needs An Upgrade — But His Manager Has The Department On A Strict Budget
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Imagine working in the IT department, but you don’t have the budget to fulfill a lot of the requests you get. What would you do?
In this story, one IT worker vents about his boss and compares his requests to cars. The manager clearly wants what they can’t afford, so instead, they settle for a broken software system.
Ugh! This sounds like a really frustrating place to work!
Keep reading for all the details.
Manager wanted the impossible, then gets shutdown
Working in IT department you get a lot of complaints that could be easily fixed & then you hear the annoying ” IT staff are dumb they don’t know anything”.
Ofc you work your usual hours & if you go the extra steps you won’t get anything in return just more work and no bonus or overtime.
Yes no overtime for IT is crazy.
Budget seems to be an issue.
There is a problem with the IT department honestly but it is because management keeps saying “Just do it, but I can’t accept this cost”.
So most of the things we have are based on the little budget we have available.
So when the staff ask for tasks that require things over the budget they usually just regret”.
Sometimes other departments do something on their own and they cause malware or get infected with ransom ware locking essential files that should be sent to the government, otherwise there would be a fine.
There are so many problems here.
The dumb people don’t even have back ups.
So yea dealing with such people is tiresome.
Anyways one of the managers wanted other systems to communicate with each other.
That is a problem since some of our software are not compatible or are decades old. So usually is not supported anymore. Upgrading those software will cost millions.
The manager doesn’t get it.
I found entire eco systems that are cost effective and are up to date & can do all the things we want.”
My manager said ” Why would we go for a Camry when we have a Ferrari” .
Basically my manager wanted the Ferrari 2019 without the cost. So all the alternatives are bad to him.
I was confused I said in my mind ” we have a Ferrari on life support & fixing that Ferrari cost us millions”
OP tried to explain.
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I replied ” Well our current Ferrari cannot do what you ask, a new Ferrari cost x10 the cost of this software, so you have a choice of either choosing this alternative, getting the new Ferrari or just decline your request. I just want you to know that this isn’t IT department fault this is your decision after all. So do not blame IT”
The manager said ” You know what I like our existing system, yea I won’t ask you to do that task”.
I think OP might be happier working elsewhere. This work environment sounds stressful.
This person can relate to OP’s frustrations.
Another person knows how frustrating this can be.
Pick one.
The boss can’t have it all and seems to be making the wrong decision. It can be hard to know what to prioritize when you have a small budget, but the manager in this story clearly isn’t thinking his decisions through very well.
How frustrating!
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