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Re:How NBA executive Jeff David stole $13M from the Sacramen... by yummypaint on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @09:15PM (#21580548)
This cancer has been finding its way into academic purchasing offices. Researchers could use procurement cards to buy what they needed with their grant money, now administrators are chipping away at this to force people to use shopping portals that directly enable this. It almost never saves money, and the extra time and delays associated with it probably cost money overall, yet its of critical importance to purchasing admins that everyone use this nonsense so they can get their kickbacks.
Re:How NBA executive Jeff David stole $13M from the Sacramen... by bgorman on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @09:31PM (#21580626)
How does using a shopping portal facilitate kickbacks?
Re:How NBA executive Jeff David stole $13M from the Sacramen... by extrapickles on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @10:54PM (#21580957)
The shopping portal vendor gives the kickbacks to the people that made it mandatory for everyone.
Re:How NBA executive Jeff David stole $13M from the Sacramen... by i_am_nomad on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @11:47PM (#21581171)
I can tell you that University of California is like this. It’s infuriating.