" Beale, [..] was earning a salary and bonuses of $206,000 a year, making him the highest paid official at the EPA. "
isn't that what Snowden made? lol, highest paying official. But hey, it's good to know that lying about working for the CIA carries a prison sentence now.
This is Ron Swanson's perfect government person. This also is a perfect example of how blind some Americans become when you wave stars and stripes in their face.
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haha fucking IT people want to wrap all computers in spill proof bubbles.
I take it you're not an IT person at your job.
I've actually seen for myself a traveling sales person of my last company fuck her brand new laptop up within 24 hours by installing half a dozen flash based minigames on it. That's why I don't believe in users being allowed to install shit on their computers, because she had to mail that thing back to us so we could reinstall it and then mail it back to her.
The big example is when IT-sanctioned PCs don't give user's access to install shit, and because it's too much of a hassle for a user to go through the 'hey IT please install fucking filezilla on this laptop' process people will just hide computers from IT.
That doesn't really make sense. If they can't install shit, what's the point of "hiding" the computers? How do you hide a computer, anyways. If you need internet, you need to connect it to the network and there we can see it again. We can see what they installed if they did have the rights, and if we see something we don't like, we're sending the intern over to collect your computer. But it doesn't usually get that far, because their wanton installing usually leads to them breaking their computers on their own and calling us for help. Then we send the intern over.
Another thing is licenses. Just because something is free for private use on your home computer it doesn't mean it's free for professional use. So if you're just wildly installing all the awesome, free tools you have on your private computer, you could get the company into legal trouble if you did that with your work computer.
You said it yourself, the job of the IT dept is to provide functional computers and infrastructure. That means the programs you need to work are either on the standard rollout image for new computer or can be requested and installed in a timely fashion through standard channels. For example, every computer that gets set up already has a full version of MS Office on it because every user needs that. However, people in accounting don't need "the lab software" on their computers. This isn't exactly a new issue, and most companies have well working systems in place to make sure the people get the tools for their jobs without just ordering everything for everyone (licensing costs being the number one reason corporations cared enough to put those systems in place). What I've noticed so far that pretty much every company I've ever worked with had at least one piece of really shitty browser based snake oil software that only worked with Internet explorer and could break as soon as another browser was installed and screwed with "the settings".
So whenever the latest version of Firefox would break "the settings", we had a lot of computers reinstalled from scratch because asshole user with admin rights had Firefox installed and suddenly his browser based snake oil software didn't work anymore.
Because of this, users don't get to install shit. Also, users don't get to request weird software for their computer because they need it to do their job. If you need it to do your job, tell your department head, not us. Because he's paying for it out of his budget.