Fill in the blank and then tell a tale, could be current or former.
Now I know when you read the fill in the blank part all sorts of things come to mind, but please try and keep it clean.
* Afraid of confrontation
So we have a piece of enterprise software with a module that allows employees to look internally at things that are published to the public as well as things that are not yet published -- but are not confidential. Permissions in this module also allow them to do one thing, specifically to create an item that might ultimately (after lots of rounds and workflows) be one of those things that is pending for publication. However, as soon as it is created, the manager would know (as the first step in the flow) and could just kill it, and no one else would be the wiser.
Rather than simply telling the employee "don't do that" (or killing at item so created), the manager wants to pay the software vendor money to recode the module so that those who can see the "things" can't create them.
This when we're in a budget crunch and seriously understaffed with no relief in sight...
{SIGH}
Now I know when you read the fill in the blank part all sorts of things come to mind, but please try and keep it clean.
* Afraid of confrontation
So we have a piece of enterprise software with a module that allows employees to look internally at things that are published to the public as well as things that are not yet published -- but are not confidential. Permissions in this module also allow them to do one thing, specifically to create an item that might ultimately (after lots of rounds and workflows) be one of those things that is pending for publication. However, as soon as it is created, the manager would know (as the first step in the flow) and could just kill it, and no one else would be the wiser.
Rather than simply telling the employee "don't do that" (or killing at item so created), the manager wants to pay the software vendor money to recode the module so that those who can see the "things" can't create them.
This when we're in a budget crunch and seriously understaffed with no relief in sight...
{SIGH}
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