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The funny thing is, if someone actually has the guts to tell Ryan "Hey you know that thing you insist we do? It's costing us $Y every year. Do you still want it?".

The Ryans of the world usually respond with "no that's mad, why didn't you alert me sooner? Stop that at once!".

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no the actual issue is that it would mean a demotion for Ryan

Like our tech director spending millions on Microsoft stuff. Anyone sees that it's not really the most sane investments to be making. But the only way out is to fire the guy, and that's just one step too far.

So the ryan's are untouchable because of politics, they want to keep their scope and budgets. If nobody wants to decrease their budget, no money is saved sadly

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