When I became head of the computer department at work, I knew that the first thing I needed to do was to order some better equipment installed to make my job easier. It seemed that the last head of this department had not ordered anything new for two years. He thought that he was saving the company money by just repairing the old xseries servers every week. I knew that he was actually costing the company money when the xseries servers went down and the work of everyone else would come to a screeching halt for however long it took him to get it fixed.

I took it upon myself to shop around for some refurbished system x servers that would be more affordable than new ones. I knew that there was money set aside for any technical upgrades that were necessary, so I placed an order with an online company for two refurbished system x servers. I put a rush order on them and they were delivered at the end of the week. I scheduled the entire tech department to work over the weekend to install the new servers, so that we did not interrupt any of the offices.

Since the installation of the new system x servers, our office has not been down once. My boss has complimented me many times on taking the matter of upgrading into my own hands many times.