"It's not my money" - is a very common phrase I hear in any American influenced businesses. Particularly in the big corporate environment.
The employees only care about their salary, commissions. Financial budgeting is not their concerns. So, they would not care about laptop fees, shipping fees. And if the CFO does not look into these stuff, then the company is wasting money on these. The rates in everything just go higher and higher, and everyone is made to think that American business' high cost is due to high qualitative standards, which may used to be true some 60 years ago, but not anymore. Now, it just seems that way because today's American inherited the kind of quality trust from previous generation.
This dichotomy of offices is also seen in churches. Pastors do not care about evangelism, Evangelists do not care about pastoring, etc. Their systematic theology is not practical, not organic.