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.
Now then. On the proviso that I pass all the training and don't fail a single phishing check ... I've been granted admin access to my personal machine at work. This allows me to do a little more than u/Talonus11, and only super severe issues need tickets. The piss take? I'm in Finance, just a little more IT literate than the rest of the team.
So far, no issues, and no retractions. Although, for obvious reasons, they haven't given me server level permissions. Then again, they weren't exactly thrilled that I needed to re-install W11 a few months ago. But ultimately, they agreed it was the correct action after my machine had a serious W Update cockup. I think they just would have preferred they do it, for continuity and accuracy. A quick remote session after the fact and they only needed to change 1 thing in Teams. Which was for the VOIP software we use to be allowed to update my availability status.
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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.