This IT department tried to warn their leaders that they were about to spend a lot of money, but they just wouldn't listen.
Every company tries to save money as best they can, though some are better at the task than others. It's incredible how many companies bleed money by overpaying their higher-ups, not watching how much money is being spent on clients, or just being bad at keeping finance employees employed. Not to mention that departments can get overwhelmed and let things slip through the cracks.
This company is a good example of poor communication over the costs of a circuit emulator. Instead of looking at the full cost of this thing (which was thousands of dollars back in the day), this company just looked at the monthly cost and agreed to pay it. It seems that the Finance Vice President only found out the exorbitant cost of this once it was too late… You can check out u/calladus's workplace tale of malicious compliance down below. Commenters were also amazed that the business would overlook something this big.
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