At this financial institution, it’s OK for IT to spend money — as long as it’s somebody else’s money, says a pilot fish on the inside.

Case in point: “Several years ago, the IT bigwigs contracted with a company to dispose of old computers and electronic office equipment,” fish says. “The deal was based on the disposal company’s expectation that there would be computer equipment they could refurbish and sell in order to offset their costs and make a little profit.

“We were just then switching from one PC vendor to another, so there was plenty of usable equipment to dispose of and the disposal company was happy.”

Fast-forward to the end of the multi-year upgrade cycle: Those same IT bigwigs decide that they can save money by delaying out-of-warranty replacement for the first PCs deployed after the switchout, so the PCs remain in use until they break for good.

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