This stems from leadership now allowing their workforce to make decisions about anything. I contracted to Boeing and every request I made had to go through at least four levels of management. And if my request had a dot missing over the “i” it was sent back down to me, ticket closed and I had to start the entire process all over again.
I said screw it after I requested Microsoft Project on my laptop. I was the PM after all and this piece of software was critical to the project I was assigned to. Some EVP denied the request, twice. She said why did I need it? It was in my request form why I needed it.
Boeing would be a much better company if they canned three levels of leadership. Needless to say, but this was their highest cost IT project for the year and the EVP’s denials cost Boeing a year in delays. Could I have used Excel or something else? Sure. But that’s not the point. When the EVP called me and my company to tell me what I did was unacceptable and demanded I be removed from the account, I brought the receipts.
Know what Boeing did? They canned me, delisted the company I worked for and promoted the EVP for several million dollars in cost savings for a “key” IT project that never happened.
“Not” not “Now”