This is why asking "What would the process be if I wanted to purchase a $50 book necessary for work?" tells you a lot about organizational culture. If they say "Department of Bikeshedding gonna bikeshed, what are you going to do", they have many more than one DoB. https://twitter.com/polisciprofhi/status/1215832410794819584 …
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One might think "Hmm replacing that department with a SaaS app might make it better" but that department being essentially fully computerized might be the thing which turned it into the Department of Bikeshedding.
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Previously they offered math, recordkeeping, and diligence. Computers are much better than humans at trivial math and recordkeeping. So now they're diligencing like diligent diligencers to justify historical staffing levels.
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Given that so many organizations do this, is there a steelman argument for it actually being rational?
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I can attempt a couple: 1) This is all about signaling and setting cultural norms. We don’t care *at all* about the $4 lunch. We care that when you’re a director and *could* figure out how to embezzle $1M you remember being asked about the $4 lunch. 2) This choice not made here
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Someone stole a little money and caused a very public scandal for a funding body. They’ve dictated extremely high-ceremony requirements forever in response. We don’t have to like them, but the funding body has all the money, so we do have to execute competently against them.
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