One complaint I have is that far too many businesses don't realize time is money. Buy a good sized second monitor and you'll save me a half hour a day. That will pay for itself in about two weeks. That's a simple decision to make. But it seems like this manager just sees that as a expense. Although sometimes I joke at work that I have a bigger tech capital budget at home than I do at work and sometimes bring my obsoleted equipment from home to use at work.
One thing I hear all the time is, “it only takes 5 (or 10, or whatever) minutes a day”. I have to explain over and over that 5 minutes a day is 2.5 days a year spent doing that one task. The manager should be leading the effort to eliminate simple wasteful tasks not continuing them.