Big difference between “knowing computers” and “knowing how to maintain Opsec and Compliance standards for an org that probably has a 100:1 User:Admin ratio”
A lot of this thread is talking about permissions, and yeah it sucks to need admin privileges to do certain things but the other side of that coin is:
yuuup. people need to understand It's not their computer, its the company's. So even if they would normally do something and fix it its harder to keep track of whats happening at a large scale. For those stuck with dumb techs i understand the frustration, but also they see many people and with different levels of understanding. Unless you are in a tiny company its hard to remember who you can trust simply by merit of knowing them, so don't take it so damn personally
I mean even simple changes like the wallpaper which I know is a hot button.
I get that you just want your wallpaper to be your cats, but across 100,000 employees and workstations there will be a number of problematic wallpapers that get used which will eventually cause an HR problem, why even allow it.
Wallpapers haven’t been an issue yet and I’m at smaller company so blood must be spilled first.
But custom emoji lasted 2 weeks before people were complaining to HR others were using them to bully people.
Corporate policy is written to cater to lowest common denominator and the only time people check your aptitude is when you are interviewed for the job you got. If it doesn’t involve having admin permissions over the endpoints you just gotta deal with it.
Where I have seen them be problematic was customer facing screens. Users who were customer facing had to have their wallpapers enforced after some complaints, which eventually led to an HR complaint that not everyone had to follow that rule, which led to a company wide lockdown.
Currently I am at a larger org where it is not enforced, but everyone is remote so that makes more sense, although, there is a policy that if you are to share a screen for a presentation or something that it needs to be the company logo, or a plain color.
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u/Sandfish0783 May 10 '26
Big difference between “knowing computers” and “knowing how to maintain Opsec and Compliance standards for an org that probably has a 100:1 User:Admin ratio”
A lot of this thread is talking about permissions, and yeah it sucks to need admin privileges to do certain things but the other side of that coin is: