When they started disabling USB ports, and then I had to fill in forms for some IT dogsbody to install R for me ("open source....oooooh dunno about that! - will

When they started disabling USB ports, and then I had to fill in forms for some IT dogsbody to install R for me ("open source....oooooh dunno about that! - will have to apply to Compliance for approval")... that's when I decided my days were numbered on the sellside (this was Barcap btw). Nowadays, in all domains of sellside finance, compliance completely rules the roost, and is snuffing out all initiative.