At a previous employer that policy was continually causing problems and I'd been able to fly under their radar since all they did was issue hardware to myself a

At a previous employer that policy was continually causing problems and I'd been able to fly under their radar since all they did was issue hardware to myself and my minions†. Eventually IT staff came around needing the root password for my dev machine and things got awkward very quickly when I explained they didn't have internal clearance to log into it, much less view any data, and they'd have to go ask a senior vice president for direct approval in writing. They were some of the best IT people I've worked with, but they'd just run into a situation where they were the people who needed permission and they had to create exceptions on the fly. There's always going to be a place where the process breaks down and either you give the IT people room to adjust their policies or you make them sit on their hands and pretend nothing is going on. † Not my terminology.