What Are You Doing Right Now
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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
So you're telling me that since I didn't waste money and replace them early, before they needed replacing... that I won't be able to replace them next year if they fail? ridiculous.
That's reality mate. Not good, not what I like, but it's a real thing.
Well, we know corruption when we see it, don't we?
Corruption? No. It's more about how your financial department runs your business. We're in fact controlled by two other gov agencies to avoid anything unnecessary or unjustified.
Well, we know that's not right - because then they wouldn't run a use it or loose it budget style.. they would budget for what you really need. A use it or loose it budget is for lazy people not doing their jobs, etc. The corruption comes from them not doing their jobs.. not them trying to steal money or pay off their friends, but not doing the job they are paid for to ensure the business is spending when and were needed, not just sticking to some arbitrary budget.
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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
So you're telling me that since I didn't waste money and replace them early, before they needed replacing... that I won't be able to replace them next year if they fail? ridiculous.
That's reality mate. Not good, not what I like, but it's a real thing.
Well, we know corruption when we see it, don't we?
Corruption? No. It's more about how your financial department runs your business. We're in fact controlled by two other gov agencies to avoid anything unnecessary or unjustified.
Actually, it's the opposite. They are pushing you to waste money.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
So you're telling me that since I didn't waste money and replace them early, before they needed replacing... that I won't be able to replace them next year if they fail? ridiculous.
That's reality mate. Not good, not what I like, but it's a real thing.
Well, we know corruption when we see it, don't we?
Corruption? No. It's more about how your financial department runs your business. We're in fact controlled by two other gov agencies to avoid anything unnecessary or unjustified.
Actually, it's the opposite. They are pushing you to waste money.
It is a complete waste of resources in my opinion as well. I work for public edu as well so I have the same dumb budget management that @thwr has.
I really don't understand why public money must be handled that way and why people think it is the best way to show transparency for money usage.
- Budget created and asked for accountants without IT input
- Budget created usually between Oct - Dec of the previous year.
- Budget must last the whole year and must be completely used or risk getting a smaller amount next year.
- Because the budget must last the whole year, most buys are rushed on the last months in order to utilize the whole budget not really taking into account real business requirements. Must of the stuff is never actually used by IT.
This would never be allowed on private companies, why is is allowed on public ones, at least for my country I must agree with @Dashrender CORRUPTION no other way to call it in my book.
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@romo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I really don't understand why public money must be handled that way and why people think it is the best way to show transparency for money usage.
You sound like you work down this way.
The money is handled this way out of fear. Fear that someone will ask a question.
- Budget created and asked for accountants without IT input
Our budget is done by my manager but what he gets is usually half what we actually need, as in there's little room for anything but paying staff.
- Budget created usually between Oct - Dec of the previous year.
Budget season for the EDU sector runs on the academic year... which makes it easier for the school/college BUT is completely stupid when the government budget changes HALFWAY through the year. You though you had enough for that shiny new kit in August? HA! Not anymore, other departments need that money. No kit for you!
I will admit that it's nice to tell cold calling vendors to get stuffed, especially during April-May because budget season is not yet upon us... not that we could afford what they're pushing.- Budget must last the whole year and must be completely used or risk getting a smaller amount next year.
^ this annoys me greatly. You get a kick ass deal and save a bucket of money and then get punished for it the following year.
OR you can't use $X from because unexpected issues (IT, college cash flow, $other) mean you can't shell out for something, getting to close to end of year shutdown and well, you didn't use all your $$. "Clearly you don't need that much $ in your budget, you greedy IT SOBs".Also, smaller budget makes the place look more efficient... mmmhmmm, I'll be right over here with the auditors report.
- Because the budget must last the whole year, most buys are rushed on the last months in order to utilize the whole budget not really taking into account real business requirements. Must of the stuff is never actually used by IT.
Yeah, had similar stuff happen. We budgeted for X PC's to be replaced in the first half of the year and Y in the last half of the year. Director says "Nope. We need the $ elsewhere.
This would never be allowed on private companies, why is is allowed on public ones, at least for my country I must agree with @Dashrender CORRUPTION no other way to call it in my book.
I'd say that it happens... they're just sneakier about it.
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@romo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
This would never be allowed on private companies, why is is allowed on public ones, at least for my country I must agree with @Dashrender CORRUPTION no other way to call it in my book.
In the US, at least, a publicly traded company could be sued for doing this by its investors. It's called a breach of fiduciary responsibility. For the government to do it means that they have breached their trust of the public. That they actually require the government to do something considered unethical and literally illegal in private (but publicly traded) business, in unthinkable. Obviously the government knows that it exists only for enabling criminal activities, but they know that no one will call them out on it.
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Wow, easy guys. It's still me. I've not been around here for a couple of months (for a very good reason), but you all know me well enough.
a) I've applied for the budget in the first hand. It's NOT a yearly budget. It's a special one-time project budget.
b) I could have asked for way more and go for Cisco or whatever. But I choosed UBNT? Why? Because they are awesome and very affordable, as we all know. Using other well known vendors would have driven the costs... What? 5 times up? 10 times? Even more?
c) no secret: I'm still no - and will never be - a native English speaker. Keep that in mind, it's not always easy to explain things especially in topics such as business finances. I guess you got something wrong here.
So, please, think a second before using a words like "corruption" or bad ethic habits.
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Good to see you back @thwr
Your English is orders of magnitude better than my German.
(I can only say a few words... of the actual useful ones it's good morning, good day, and I don't speak German... oh and stupid head... lol never know when I'll need that.) -
@nadnerb said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Good to see you back @thwr
Your English is orders of magnitude better than my German.
(I can only say a few words... of the actual useful ones it's good morning, good day, and I don't speak German... oh and stupid head... lol never know when I'll need that.)Thank you. Good to be back.
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@nadnerb said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
(I can only say a few words... of the actual useful ones it's good morning, good day, and I don't speak German... oh and stupid head... lol never know when I'll need that.)
Oh, you mean "Dummkopf"? Rarely used these days, it's getting replaced by "Idiot". Try to google that
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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Wow, easy guys. It's still me. I've not been around here for a couple of months (for a very good reason), but you all know me well enough.
a) I've applied for the budget in the first hand. It's NOT a yearly budget. It's a special one-time project budget.
b) I could have asked for way more and go for Cisco or whatever. But I choosed UBNT? Why? Because they are awesome and very affordable, as we all know. Using other well known vendors would have driven the costs... What? 5 times up? 10 times? Even more?
c) no secret: I'm still no - and will never be - a native English speaker. Keep that in mind, it's not always easy to explain things especially in topics such as business finances. I guess you got something wrong here.
So, please, think a second before using a words like "corruption" or bad ethic habits.
Nothing really against you @thwr it was really a complaint on my part of the system and how financial departments handle public money than a comment against you.
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@dbeato Greetings.
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wondering if I should continue using Duolingo.
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@tech1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
wondering if I should continue using Duolingo.
Yup, I had a 110 day streak recently. It's a great and free tool.
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@tech1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
wondering if I should continue using Duolingo.
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I'm about to take lunch, cya guys in a bit.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@tech1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
wondering if I should continue using Duolingo.
Yup, I had a 110 day streak recently. It's a great and free tool.
I was way happy with it at first but I mainly use it on my phone. I recently discovered that for Iphone users it has this "health" bar and on android it doesn't.
If you make a mistake it take away a "life" and you only get 4 chances.
Then I can either pay to restore health or wait 8hrs and by that time I've forgotten or I don't have the time.
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@tech1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@tech1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
wondering if I should continue using Duolingo.
Yup, I had a 110 day streak recently. It's a great and free tool.
I was way happy with it at first but I mainly use it on my phone. I recently discovered that for Iphone users it has this "health" bar and on android it doesn't.
If you make a mistake it take away a "life" and you only get 4 chances.
Then I can either pay to restore health or wait 8hrs and by that time I've forgotten or I don't have the time.
I've used it for a long time on iPhone and have never seen that. That's nothing like my iPhone DuoLingo experience. It never, ever has made me wait for anything.
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And I've never, ever had to pay anything, except to pay to keep a streak going after it has expired. but I can study as many times per day as I want. Which is often a lot.
