@riskymanag3ment @hacks4pancakes Had a corporate credit card an aeon ago, and the combination of the corporate practices and the financial provider practices were… unpleasant.

More often than not, the system had the employee paying the bill in full, and then waiting for corporate reimbursement.

Reimbursement which didn’t always get approved of course, or didn’t get timely approval.

Employees effectively providing short-term interest-free loans to the corporation.

Worse, the financial provider’s expense and reimbursement system was abhorrent. Probably deliberately abhorrent, too.

Years and years later, the same financial provider was soliciting my business, with letters and calls.

I laughed and laughed and laughed, and took great care in appropriately filing the solicitations.

@riskymanag3ment @hacks4pancakes Yep, this is why I have the policy I do wrt silicon vendors.

If you go out of your way to make your parts difficult to use in a design (hiding datasheets behind NDAs, chips not available from distributors without volume sales contracts, etc) then I'll honor your wishes.

And you'll never get a design win from me for the rest of my career.