Management has the authority to set policies on how work-provided technology is used since they can fire you for not following those policies (constrained by la

Management has the authority to set policies on how work-provided technology is used since they can fire you for not following those policies (constrained by law). Between IT and developers, this isn't a fully-ordered relation since IT has jurisdiction to enforce those policies, and developers have jurisdiction on ensuring that software meets needed quality. If your management has ill-conceived policies that prevent you from being productive at work, includes everything from McAfee hobbled NTFS to being scheduled for 9 hours of meetings in an 8 hour workday, then leave and find somewhere more productive to work or accept that you're being paid to be unproductive.