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In most of the companies I've worked for in the last decade, including a fair bit in systems administration I've see the following used as the solution. USER:
by pjonesdotca 17y ago
In most of the companies I've worked for in the last decade, including a fair bit in systems administration I've see the following used as the solution.
USER: I have a problem.
TECH: Let's see...hey! Why do you have Firefox installed?
USER: It works better than IE6. Why are you guys using old crap like that? I thought we were a modern company...
TECH: We are modern, except for IE6.
USER: So I have to uninstall it?
TECH: I can't "officially" support it.
USER: Aaaah.
TECH: OK, your print queue is cleared.
- GiraffeNecktie 17y agoWhere I work the conversation would go something like this: TECH: Who gave you permission to use uncertified software? USER: Uh, noone TECH: I'll have to make a report about this. MANAGER: You're fired.
- pjonesdotca 17y agoUh, who got fired in this one.
- GiraffeNecktie 17y agoThat would be the user wearing the boot up his ass. Running unapproved software (e.g. portable FireFox on my locked down machine) would be grounds for immediate dismissal in this org. IE 6 forever (sigh)
- pjonesdotca 17y agoYipes. Even as an SysAdmin I never had that kind of pull to get a user booted out for something like that. The most hardcore lockdown I ever did involved reghacking out USB ports on the terminal in the lunchroom.