me: can i get admin access to my workstation so i can install the stuff i need

client: ABSOLUTELY NOT! too dangerous.

me: ok. i wrote that script you wanted, going to deploy it with root permissions to all your computers now?

client: go for it

— Katerina Borodina (@kathyra_) July 9, 2019

Exactly. This has happened to me in at least two jobs:

Me: I really need admin access to my workstation to install the tools I need to do my job daily.

Company: Against IT policy! Impossible! It could destroy everything to let you install Wireshark and the Sysinternals suite!

Me: You realize that I can with a few commands delete all the virtual machines for the entire company, and every customer VM, and all the backups, right? That’s not a threat but just a statement of fact about the rights I have. Letting me install software I need is nothing at all comparatively.

Company: Ok, here’s that admin access.