An Honest Message from Your IT Guy
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Highlights:
- Don't lie to me.
- No, the company does not trust you.
- It is really not your computer
The last one about picking a non-embarrassing password so that you can share it.... um, has this guy ever worked in IT? You can never do that!!
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@scottalanmiller said:
Seems like this guy has that whole us against them (IT vs Users) mentality. I can't stand that. We aren't enemies we are suppose to work together. Wonder if he could do the end users jobs with out looking dumb, probably not. Also there's a reset password an a force change password at next login box in AD Users & computers for a reason.
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@thecreativeone91 Well said. People treat us like we're the bad guys. We're not. We have a job. It's to keep you being able to do yours. So stop making us out to be the bad guys when policies are a certain way for a reason.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Seems like this guy has that whole us against them (IT vs Users) mentality. I can't stand that. We aren't enemies we are suppose to work together. Wonder if he could do the end users jobs with out looking dumb, probably not. Also there's a reset password an a force change password at next login box in AD Users & computers for a reason.
While it's definitely better to try to work together, your argument that we couldn't do their job without looking dumb is probably not true. Yeah we most likely would need some training in that specific situation/job/etc, but I'm pretty sure once we learned it we wouldn't be nearly as inept as so many users constantly are.
Except the last one about sharing your password (you should NEVER do this - if IT needs to log in as you for some reason - stay there and log in for them ever time they need it - Cover your backside by not giving IT what they really don't need), the rest of the points are all valid.
