On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Christopher Chan <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote: > Sounds exactly like the mentality in Hong Kong too. I mean, even the > bigger companies with Asian managers have a similar mentality. The IT > department is always the under-budgeted, under-manned and public enemy > number one when cost-cutting. Not too surprised the mentality is similar, I'm in Asia and just a few hours away by plane. Despite putting out cost estimates to management, they just won't accept that spending a few dollars more now would reap 10x the cost savings over the next couple of years. Somehow, they seem to prefer gambling with the possibility of paying a couple of hundred bucks for emergency service calls and maybe a grand for data recovery than spending another hundred or so on an extra hard disk now.