[Philip-J-Fry]

>Why do people think they can "play with new technologies" at work, which is wasting not only company money, but other people's time as well?

This has been a thing for as long as humans have been working. It's because through experimentation you may discover something that increases productivity.

The guy who strapped a combustion engine to a field plow was probably playing with new technologies at work. And it no doubt cost a lot of money. But now the world is better off because of it.

Yeah, engines are more complex than horses. But productivity skyrocketed. These trade-offs are made every single day, every single year for as long as we've existed.