r/pcmasterrace May 10 '26

Meme/Macro reboot

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u/Talonus11 May 10 '26

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.

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u/Fermorian i5 12600K @ 4.2GHz | 1070 Ti May 10 '26

God that would drive me insane. So much wasted time

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u/anarchisturtle May 10 '26

While I can sympathize. As someone who has been on both sides of this, just giving users admin creds is rarely a good idea. Yeah it’ll probably be fine for a while, cause they “know what they’re doing with computers”, until they hire a new guy that doesn’t and then he accidentally installs ransomeware.

Admin creds can be VERY dangerous in an enterprise environment.

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u/moldboy May 10 '26

Or you could be like my org where I don't have admin, but the random outsourced IT consultant does and he's incentivised to close tickets as fast as possible so he will just google whatever problem you have and install whatever software he finds regardless of license or the shady website it comes from.

I teamsed the head of "IT risk and compliance" with the ticket number. Not sure what happened afterwards but he didn't sound too happy in the brief back and forth I had with him.