Re: My one win over beancounters
"self-contained DC power supply". Turns out that anything flagged as a battery is on the USA's "No buy" list. But SCDCPS? Good to go!
Always good to be creative. At a previous job, internal policy was that books had to be ordered via, and borrowed from, the central company library (which was at the other side of the country). Manuals, on the other hand, just required a simple PO. We bought lots of programming manuals, database manuals,...
I also remember someone who, following a major lightning strike, facetiously filled in a damage from with "cause: EMP", and then to general surprise it was discovered that they were insured against EMP but not against lightning strikes.