Personal computing discussed
bthylafh wrote:Sounds to me like you need to lobby your boss to make a policy change. There's no reason to waste your time supporting someone's personal box, unless <realpolitik>they outrank you</realpolitik>, but if your boss has enough pull that can be ended as well.
Omniman wrote:bthylafh wrote:Sounds to me like you need to lobby your boss to make a policy change. There's no reason to waste your time supporting someone's personal box, unless <realpolitik>they outrank you</realpolitik>, but if your boss has enough pull that can be ended as well.
Sadly, it's one of the vice presidents who is just trying to make the organization (Hospital) look good. They don't really know what is going on and is actually retiring a few weeks after the policy goes into place.
Scrotos wrote:Also, maybe you can delay it until after he retires and then let the new person make the decision. You know, "still getting quotes from vendors... ran into some compatibility issues, looking into that... waiting for replies from vendor support..."
Omniman wrote:They then get angry as to why our software isn't working properly on the personal machine.