Comment by elevation
9 days ago
The suits are stingy when it's not an active emergency. A former employer declined my request for $2K for a second NAS to replicate our company's main data store. This was just days after a harrowing data recovery of critical from a failing WD Green that was never backed up. Once the data was on a RAID mirror and accessible to employees again, there was no active emergency, and the budget dried up.
I don't know. I guess that for all intents and purposes I'm what you would call a suit nowadays. I'm far from a big shot at my admittedly big company but 50k$ is pretty much pocket change on this kind of project. My cloud bill has more yearly fluctuation than that. Next to the cost of employees, it's nothing.