Do it.

I had a guy at work, lost his fancy PDA on the first week of a three week trip to one of our sites in Germany. Never bothered to contact me until he was back to let me know the phone was lost.

On his return saw me first thing monday morning and I him provided with a spare nokia as a stand-in. Monday evening expected to know why it was taking it so long to source a replacement, Oblivous to the fact had he told me 3 weeks ago i would have had a spare for him.

Decided enough was enough, sourced a hand me down PDA of the same brand and gave it to him next morning. was advised he didnt want a hand me down. So told him tough if he wants a new one speak to the GM.

To my surprise he did, decided while he was at it he would go get an iphone which wasnt part of our SOE. (He knows this, i told him the models he could have)

Decided to disregard my advice, have now told him in no uncertain terms when the iphone arrives and something goes wrong with it, he will be configuring it and fixing it himself.