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Originally Posted by aigel
Let me play devil's advocate: Put yourself in the guy's shoes. Would you rather modernize your setup over time as stuff breaks or do you want to rebuild the system with used spares? There can be a lot of time wasted with unknown / used equipment, which also translates in to $. The credit the engineer may get for saving money on equipment may be used up very quickly if the stuff isn't rebuilt fast and reliable.
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Agreed. And you are assuming he will even get the credit. I've postponed and made due in the past to save the co's coin only to be rewarded with the company not having funds available to purchase equipment when it's really needed. You learn that lesson pretty quick.
Also consider the cost to a business in lost productivity when systems go down. It's cheap insurance to pay up front for mission critical infrastructure.
So Ed, todays network outage cost us $xx,xxxx. What happened?
Well I used old equipment to save us some money.
I see, and what would the new equipment have cost us?
The answer better be 2x's $xx,xxx or Ed is in deep s**t