> sometimes when you're in a corporate dystopian hell hole do not expect to be able to actually request or install software on your device. What is there is what you have and trying to get it changed is an exercise in taking on the bureaucracy. It's not worth it. Many people have tried and failed.
Been at a company that was like this to developers. We couldn't approval to get anything installed, and IT was just plain hostile. They also demanded six months notice for us to get a server that was a copy of an existing computer (we wanted to use it for staging).
I also once built an exe for our internal app in Visual Studio, got a call from IT, they said I had a virus on the computer, requested screen share access, and I watched them navigate to the bin folder and delete the .exe I just built (and just the .exe file).
Had to go through a nice long process to get them to stop doing that. Also they didn't seem to understand that I'm a developer and I develop software for the company.
Been at a company that was like this to developers. We couldn't approval to get anything installed, and IT was just plain hostile. They also demanded six months notice for us to get a server that was a copy of an existing computer (we wanted to use it for staging).
I also once built an exe for our internal app in Visual Studio, got a call from IT, they said I had a virus on the computer, requested screen share access, and I watched them navigate to the bin folder and delete the .exe I just built (and just the .exe file).
Had to go through a nice long process to get them to stop doing that. Also they didn't seem to understand that I'm a developer and I develop software for the company.