Good Old CEO

Ceo It support Budget cuts Understaffed Tech support Corporate life One-man-army It department Business logic

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Good Old CEO

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Nothing screams "efficient business strategy" quite like refusing to invest in proper infrastructure and then hiring ONE person to hold together your entire digital empire with duct tape and prayers. Why build a solid IT department with redundancy and proper resources when you can just dump everything on Jerry from accounting who once fixed a printer? Genius move, really. The CEO spares every expense humanly possible, then acts shocked when their single IT person is simultaneously managing servers, fixing Karen's email, debugging production, AND somehow expected to be available 24/7. It's like building a skyscraper on a single toothpick and wondering why things feel a bit wobbly. But hey, shareholders are happy, so who cares if your entire business continuity plan is literally one person who hasn't slept in three days?

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