Comment by hmottestad

New version of https://xkcd.com/303/ ?

"Waiting for corporate to punch a hole through three firewalls for me to get access to the test server :P"

I was on a project once where a consultant had dropped their laptop and it had taken a week or two to get fixed. After that everyone had to use a laptop provided by the client. When we scaled up the project with 3 more developers the project manager who had set up this policy discovered that the lead time for 3 dev laptops meant that the new developers got to be bored for a month at a fairly high hourly rate.