"Honeybunchesofgoats" (honeybunche0fgoats) 04/19/2019 at 15:41 • Filed to: fuck everyone but double fuck IT departments

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lone_liberal > Honeybunchesofgoats 04/19/2019 at 15:54

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I think I speak for all IT departments when I say

facw > Honeybunchesofgoats 04/19/2019 at 16:11

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I work in an IT department and I agree. I’m always annoyed that our interoffice service rankings don’t let me rank my own department down. All the more annoying in the sense that I have more technical skills than most people there, but they will neither fix my problems, or give me the access I need to fix them myself.

Chariotoflove > Honeybunchesofgoats 04/19/2019 at 16:12

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This is relevant to my current concerns. The university has been tightening its grip on all of us in its quest for total top-down control. When I started here, our local IT office guys were empowered to help and support us with out needs. Now, I’m not supposed to go up to the fifth floor and see them. I’m supposed to log a service request with the home office 200 miles away on the main campus. They will then assign somebody on the fifth floor of my own building to come help me.

They’ve been micromanaging every aspect of our college without understanding or caring about our needs up here. Purchase orders get delayed. Extra hoops have to be jumped through. It’s frustrating.

One day, my grad student same to me panicked that his computer disappeared from his desk.  I found out the IT guys down in College Station said his computer accessed a web address on their “suspicious” list and ordered the local guys to take the computer up to their office for scanning.  I was livid.  My department chair was also livid. You don’t just take somebody’s shit off their desk without telling them.  This is the kind of BS we have been dealing with.

ttyymmnn > Chariotoflove 04/19/2019 at 16:17

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the IT guys down in College Station

Well, there’s your problem.

(ttyymmnn: UT-Austin, DMA 1999.  Hook ‘em )

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > Honeybunchesofgoats 04/19/2019 at 16:21

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ttyymmnn > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 04/19/2019 at 16:26

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I love that movie.