I feel like my whole department is held together worn tape and strings. Half of our hardware/software just isn’t working the majority of the time and it majorly hinders our workflows. Is this just my company or are other places held together with hope and a dream?

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My company is definitely held together with hopes and dreams, and the hopes are starting to fall! A lot of uncertainty right now. We have a company meeting coming up, and hoping they can shed some light, because it’s never been this bad around here.

Hopefully you all get some clarity on things!!

Do you work for a small business? This is giving small business vibes. I started my career working for SMBs and finally had enough of all the jerry rigged systems that I had to move on. But tbh there are a lot of pros and cons to both kinds of companies.

Not small really but smaller than most places I think. Just seems like everyone is terrified to spend any money!

I find that if you give valid reasons the business will be more likely to spend the money, they're probably seeing that you're completing the work regardless currently so there's no reason to upgrade.

We just had a similar conversation for our graphics department and when the talk about render times (and making more money!) came up, the management were more inclined to splash out.

Yeah that’s the problem, we’re technically able to find work arounds even if they’re a huge pain in the arse so no one bothers to fix them!

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