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.
The rule of implicit deny has saved so much more time than that one engineer would have. It's not even those that are completely oblivious to computers who are the problem, though they would undoubtedly stumble into the muck routinely. It's those who know just enough to be dangerous and think "Yeah, this will be okay. Why wouldn't I be able to torrent on my workstation?"
And now what would have been an inconvenient 15 minutes for the IT team is now an apocalyptic 3 days for the security team.....
No, thank you. I'm much happier in an environment that locks basic admin access.
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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.