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Our company recently decided to get a bug in their butt requiring us to get all the software we (developers) use pre-vetted by IT. They can’t seem to comprehend

by donatj 4y ago

Our company recently decided to get a bug in their butt requiring us to get all the software we (developers) use pre-vetted by IT. They can’t seem to comprehend the chilling effect that has on innovation and trying new things. Even if they’re “quick” to approve something it’s still a matter of hours before I can try some new command line tool. I am far more inclined just to hack something together with pre-approved tools than spend potentially days getting a tool approved just for it not to be a good match.

ElfinTrousers 4y ago
A company I worked for thought about doing this, including approving every dependency of every codebase. And all their dependencies. Did I mention many of these projects were in the JS/TS ecosystem? Meaning you have libraries that do the tiniest little trivial things you can imagine, and people use them. They gave up on this idea once a dev pointed this out.
hedora 4y ago
I've often thought that IT departments should be billed for inefficiencies. Each person would have a time tracker (only used for tracking waste), and each time they thought their time was wasted, they'd tell it how many hours. At the end of the year, that play money would be treated as IT budget overages. Work has a stupid "I don't have covid" survey that you need to take when you go to the office. It pisses me off to no end. We already have an "I promise not to sexually assault my coworkers" .MD in my source directory. What's next, an "I promise not to shit on the floor" sign in sheet in the bathroom? Anyway, the survey pisses me off for a good 15-30 minutes every morning, just as I arrive at work. Whatever virtue-signalling idiot middle manager that mandated it should be have my time deducted from their departmental budget.
- rahimnathwani 4y ago
  What's next, an "I promise not to shit on the floor" sign in sheet in the bathroom? Many years ago, I was working at the office of a client, and needed to use the washroom. There was a sign inside each stall (or maybe just the one I happened to use?) that said something like: "Please flush the toilet after you use it, as visitors also use these toilets." It was a makeshift sign, so I guess it was put up in response to an actual problem.
  - MathMonkeyMan 4y ago
    At first I thought that implied that coworkers might not mind the lingering turds, but now I see it implies that visitors' impressions are more important than coworkers'. It's meant to shame, then. "Don't forget to flush!" would have been infantilizing but probably effective. Instead, it's "Remember that one time I was embarrassed? We don't know who it was, but I will try to control all of you even here."

by donatj 4y ago

ElfinTrousers 4y ago

A company I worked for thought about doing this, including approving every dependency of every codebase. And all their dependencies. Did I mention many of these projects were in the JS/TS ecosystem? Meaning you have libraries that do the tiniest little trivial things you can imagine, and people use them. They gave up on this idea once a dev pointed this out.

hedora 4y ago

I've often thought that IT departments should be billed for inefficiencies. Each person would have a time tracker (only used for tracking waste), and each time they thought their time was wasted, they'd tell it how many hours. At the end of the year, that play money would be treated as IT budget overages. Work has a stupid "I don't have covid" survey that you need to take when you go to the office. It pisses me off to no end. We already have an "I promise not to sexually assault my coworkers" .MD in my source directory. What's next, an "I promise not to shit on the floor" sign in sheet in the bathroom? Anyway, the survey pisses me off for a good 15-30 minutes every morning, just as I arrive at work. Whatever virtue-signalling idiot middle manager that mandated it should be have my time deducted from their departmental budget.

rahimnathwani 4y ago
What's next, an "I promise not to shit on the floor" sign in sheet in the bathroom? Many years ago, I was working at the office of a client, and needed to use the washroom. There was a sign inside each stall (or maybe just the one I happened to use?) that said something like: "Please flush the toilet after you use it, as visitors also use these toilets." It was a makeshift sign, so I guess it was put up in response to an actual problem.
- MathMonkeyMan 4y ago
  At first I thought that implied that coworkers might not mind the lingering turds, but now I see it implies that visitors' impressions are more important than coworkers'. It's meant to shame, then. "Don't forget to flush!" would have been infantilizing but probably effective. Instead, it's "Remember that one time I was embarrassed? We don't know who it was, but I will try to control all of you even here."