Ouch! You tried to bypass infrastructure? That isn't going to go well! :) I know the feeling, though. I had a different position that had me strattelling the l

Ouch! You tried to bypass infrastructure? That isn't going to go well! :) I know the feeling, though. I had a different position that had me strattelling the line between dev and ops. I reported to the dev side, but my team really need to control the servers we were deploying to because ops expected push-button deployments and didn't know much beyond Oracle. That was the most painful position I've ever been in. It was also the position that ultimately pushed me away from development. Of course, now I'm leading a startup, so if code needs to be written, I'm slinging code. :)