Telecomm Admin Laptop Justification 5

[dfalken]

I was recently hired to manage and administrate all telecomm systems at a company of about 400 Employees. They have a Definity G3si V12, CMS V12 and an Intuity Audix 4.4.

I've been telling them that I need a laptop to more effectively do my job, but they are not buying it and keep saying install VPN software on your home PC. My home PC is 7 years old and it's something I really don't want to connect to the company LAN. IT seems to be little concerned of having home PCs connected to there LAN for some reason and I'm not going to responsible for keeping my home PC virus free when I'm not the only one using it.

I'm racking my brain here trying to come up with reasons. I'm also the only person in this company that knows anything about the Avaya systems so if I go out of town for any reason and they have an issue they would have to wait for me to come back before it could be addressed.

 

[mikeydidit]

He (like most of us) work for people that have no idea about their phone system. They just want it to work that all.

This is just one of those unfortunate battles we have to fight to do our jobs. How many times have you had to plead or just about beg to get your systems where they need to be? Not wants mind you, need to be. Like upgrading off of the old tape drives to optical diskettes. They look at the money first and then base their decisions’ on that. Will this save or make me more money?? Probably not, so it gets iffy from there.

I think this is something that gets easier if you work for the same people/place for so long and then their is a mutual trust that comes into play. They begin to realize that you are just trying to take proper care of their investment, which is why they hired up to begin with.

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
Thomas A. Edison

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[sjforcum]

Speak softly and carry a large ROI.

 

[mikeydidit]

And choose your battles wisely, as you will not win them all.

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
Thomas A. Edison

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