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I could use some tips on talking with IT about this as it cripples work performance
by rahkiin 3y ago
I could use some tips on talking with IT about this as it cripples work performance
- toolslive 3y agoYou think it's IT pushing this? They are just executing orders.
- theatomheart 3y agoYes and no. Businesses have cyber insurance policies. In a world of frequent ransomware attacks, many security policy changes have been mandated by insurance companies, and for legitimate reasons.
- hulitu 3y agoThe attacks are not frequent enough. And the IT is already outsourced (because cheaper).
- MichaelZuo 3y agoMaybe it is part of their secret strategy to force in-house developers to develop for the 5th percentile worst case. As the parent alluded to.
- nebula8804 3y agoNo its a mentality that has been in corporate for decades. The best way for IT to not get in trouble is to lock everything down and define strict policies that prevent any ambiguity and define peoples work requirements in strict categories. This used to be easier with the advent of timeshared terminals but the advent of desktop computing caught them off guard. Now they have done their best to seize back control so much so that it strangles companies to death(as faster moving startups don't have this problem and innovation at the big companies stall)
- MichaelZuo 3y agoIt was a joke/sarcasm.
- nebula8804 3y agoWell I am not joking. This has been their M.O. for as far as I can remember. It really sucks as I work for a company that is being strangled to death by IT locking down every opportunity for a developer to get anything done and countless meetings where nothing gets accomplished.
- Unfrozen0688 3y agoNo, we won't make some special golden image for your machine. However we DONT want annoying "my computer slow" calls. So we can talk. But you need the antivirus and some kind of intune/rmm software, sorry.
- rahkiin 3y agoI get that, just sad npm becomes 100x slower (We measured this), and build times and indexing times increase so much too.
- foofie 3y agoYou're telling them that your convenience is worth more to the company than plugging a security hole. The company can live with your loss of productivity because it is living with the loss of everyone's productivity. The company cannot live without security. On top of that, if you are the only one making noise about slow computers and complaining about stuff and things then you eventually end up being the problem. I mean, why is that lone employee complaining so hard about wanting to remove security assurances from his machine?
- woopwoop24 3y agoor just get rid of microsoft in the workplace and enjoy the absence of a terrible environment with the addition of fewer attack scenarios, better software and happier users but sad management people, but they don't do work on their machines anyway ;)
- jfim 3y agoThere's some terrible corporate-ware that runs on Linux and Mac, and the company policy will likely mandate the use of it.
- metalliqaz 3y agothis. in many cases the corporate-ware is worse on linux because they sell it as an afterthought