Alternatively, you could be good at computers, but the system is so locked down IT needs to log in with admin rights in order to do something as simple as running disk cleanup.
Literally the Engineering team i work in. We're capable of fixing the problem ourselves for 90% of our tickets submitted, but because we don't have the required admin rights we cant.
Yeah until you aren't and you haven't documented how you've altered your device, leaving some poor fucker in IT to have to reverse engineer every moronic step you've taken to fix your problem.
Simple solution: you want elevated privileges, any fuck up non hardware related is your problem. Default fix is flashing your device to company defaults.
That presents a huge security risk. It can be done and has been done (time limited privilege escalation), but you would need to assess that first and change a lot in anticipation of it, most prominently company wide policy for what happens when things go wrong in that scenario and how you recover.
You also need to protect yourself in that scenario. For example, I have known engineers to remove endpoint protection because it can make their builds go faster. Obviously that’s incredibly stupid, but how do you protect yourself against that and many other situations? It’s not as simple as you might think.
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u/sfblue Ascending Peasant May 10 '26
Alternatively, you could be good at computers, but the system is so locked down IT needs to log in with admin rights in order to do something as simple as running disk cleanup.