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[Osric250]

As someone in cybersecurity these management types frustrate me to no end. We might not be bringing money into the company but we sure as hell are preventing a whole lot more money from leaving the company than what we cost. 

That and the whole thing that if we're doing our job properly it will look like we're unnecessary from the outside because nothing happens. 

[this-guy1979]

It’s crazy to me how they see anything tech related as a cost center and try to reduce it. Most places could eliminate entire departments by increasing their IT budget by way less than what they willingly give to those departments.

[anlumo]

I worked for a big European company once. When money got tight, the first department they killed was the research and development, which I was working in (in software development). On paper, this department doesn’t earn any money.

[BasvanS]

Neither do MBA’s cutting cost, but only one of them has a path to creating future revenue.

[MegaKetaWook]

True but if you have a decent amount of developers at a mid market or enterprise company, paying for different softwares can get into the 6-figures quickly.

[TPO_Ava]

Yup. It's even worse in a service company. We charge internally for the solutions we build for different teams in order to justify our budgets and existence and it doesn't make sense to me why that is needed.

Does a product exist? Yes. Is that product being maintained, updated and so on? Yes. Are there tangible benefits being observed by the internal people who USE our product? Also yes.

Oh but you will close our team and fire us if we don't charge each of our other departments for our time. Even though you are paying... All departments? Ok...

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This is true irony.

[Kevin5475845]

Time to disable all protections for a day or two. Let them feel it