The parent comment was literally suggesting that GP should have allowed the equipment to fail so that IT could be blamed. I didn't get the impression GP's situa

The parent comment was literally suggesting that GP should have allowed the equipment to fail so that IT could be blamed. I didn't get the impression GP's situation was the result of not bothering to sit down and talk to a higher-up. Everyone else is responding to incentive structures too, it's no less legitimate for lab workers to circumvent IT due to their incentives than it is for IT workers to be unhelpful due it their incentives.