Manager refuses to spend $50 on external software, insisting engineer waste company resources developing a platform in-house: ‘This project was costing the company roughly $4,000 in billing hours’ – FAIL Blog

Now, the manager is up in arms, wondering why productivity steeply declined over the last quarter. Perhaps the reason has something to do with the fact that you, sir, refused to pay $50 for what could have saved the entire company thousands of dollars’ worth of work. Sure, now you have an admittedly shoddy software for this kind of data extraction of your own. However, the engineer made a point to explain that what he created would need to be radically adjusted for future projects, so it’s not exactly time or money well spent.