If installing software is a regular part of your job responsibilities, go to your immediate supervisor or the company's Human Resourses Department.
Insist that your written job description be amended and re-dated to include the responsibility: Installs and maintains legally licensed software on company servers, workstations, etc.
No reasonable organization should require any employee to break the law. Neither should they expect any employee to arrive at work each day without specifying in broad terms in writing what his/her job requires.
No one should be trusted to cover your back, unless you relish the pain of a twisting blade between your shoulder blades.
Any private company engaged in business should have built the cost into their business plan or their annual budget. Besides, there's always next fiscal year.
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If installing software is a regular part of your job responsibilities, go to your immediate supervisor or the company's Human Resourses Department.
Insist that your written job description be amended and re-dated to include the responsibility: Installs and maintains legally licensed software on company servers, workstations, etc.
No reasonable organization should require any employee to break the law. Neither should they expect any employee to arrive at work each day without specifying in broad terms in writing what his/her job requires.
Not yesterday. Not today. Not tomorrow.
No one should be trusted to cover your back, unless you relish the pain of a twisting blade between your shoulder blades.
Any private company engaged in business should have built the cost into their business plan or their annual budget. Besides, there's always next fiscal year.