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So government funding 101.
Your agency's equipment budget won't be based on something logical like how many employees you have or the volume of workflow... no, it is based on a percentage of your total budget.
The agency I'm at acts as a pass through, meaning the state gives us the money to distribute to other entities. Here's the beauty though, that money is counted as a revenue to our agency and as an expense to our agency. Consequently, our equipment budget is ludicrously high for how many employees we have.
What does that mean for me?
That means that I got a brand new, it was taken out of the box the Friday before the Monday that I started, laptop. A brand new, still in the box laptop dock, still in the box wireless keyboard and mouse, and a no questions asked veridesk. I did get monitors that were about a year old, but monitors last forever. And this wasn't a low end laptop, it was an Intel i7, 16gb ram, 1tb SSD, easily over $1,500 laptop if it weren't being purchased through a bulk discount.
I started working at this agency just under three years ago. My old laptop was already at the end of its service life per our hardware replacement policy. Just yesterday I got my new laptop which is just as high end as my old one.
I compare this to the last agency that I worked at where the laptop I got when I started there was already a year and a half old, I used it for three years while working there, and for all I know, the person who replaced me is still using it.
I can't recommend working in a pass through agency highly enough.
Your agency's equipment budget won't be based on something logical like how many employees you have or the volume of workflow... no, it is based on a percentage of your total budget.
The agency I'm at acts as a pass through, meaning the state gives us the money to distribute to other entities. Here's the beauty though, that money is counted as a revenue to our agency and as an expense to our agency. Consequently, our equipment budget is ludicrously high for how many employees we have.
What does that mean for me?
That means that I got a brand new, it was taken out of the box the Friday before the Monday that I started, laptop. A brand new, still in the box laptop dock, still in the box wireless keyboard and mouse, and a no questions asked veridesk. I did get monitors that were about a year old, but monitors last forever. And this wasn't a low end laptop, it was an Intel i7, 16gb ram, 1tb SSD, easily over $1,500 laptop if it weren't being purchased through a bulk discount.
I started working at this agency just under three years ago. My old laptop was already at the end of its service life per our hardware replacement policy. Just yesterday I got my new laptop which is just as high end as my old one.
I compare this to the last agency that I worked at where the laptop I got when I started there was already a year and a half old, I used it for three years while working there, and for all I know, the person who replaced me is still using it.
I can't recommend working in a pass through agency highly enough.
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