it doesn't like you're a great fit for IT support. It's people like you that give IT a bad name. The same people that tell employees that can't upgrade Firefox

it doesn't like you're a great fit for IT support. It's people like you that give IT a bad name. The same people that tell employees that can't upgrade Firefox 3.6.23 because they don't "support" newer versions. IT either reboot or reimage to fix any problem anyway. The first thing I do it get off the IT support system by installing Linux. IT keep servers machine running, they don't care that those machine aren't doing anything useful. The server software stopped being useful years ago yet they keep it running at all costs because their job performance is tied to uptime. When I work our yearly mandatory training requires Firefox 3.6.23, IE6 or Netscape! People have to borrow loaner laptops that nobody dare upgrade just to do the training classes. This is thanks to our IT department not wanting to support "newer" technology. Eventually we get a new VP who fires all these people that don't understand that people want to use iPhones and VPNs and WebEx on their iPad and it's not ITs job to put roadblocks in their way, but instead to figure out how to support it. "I still see Blackberry as representing arrogant unthinking executives and the resulting headaches" - you mean the people that pay you and figure out how to stay in business despite your best efforts to thwart it?