Are you responsible for purchasing decisions in your company?

[pne]

Every so often, I fill out online polls, and occasionally I'm asked whether I'm responsible for purchasing decisions in my company.

I really wonder how much good such polls are, since I imagine that the kind of person who has clout in their company is not the kind of person who fills out online polls. I could be wrong, of course.

Comments

case in point

[tonytraductor.livejournal.com]

I make all purchasing decisions for Baldwin Linguas (http://www.baldwinlinguas.com),
but I don't have time to waste filling out online polls.

[sarah-cb.livejournal.com]

I say I do, since technically, I do, XD. Sigs 'n More is a company even if it doesn't make any money ;)

[sedesdraconis.livejournal.com]

I worked in the business office of a pretty large independent bookstore for a few years, and the guy who made purchasing decisions about office supplies (not about books, that was a whole office, just down the hall) was across from me. I can see him filling out online polls, I can't remember specifically that he did, but he would stop and poke the internet every so often as a distraction.

[eva]

Hm, it depends on the way the company is structured, I'd guess - in my "company", I am responsible for buying anything music-related, because I'm the only one with a clue about those things, but naturally, I don't decide which new computer to buy for the offices etc.