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>you got cussed out by the high priest of IT because your backups were taking up more than 500KB of drive space.

IT becoming upset when the things people need to do to get work done deviates from their IT model?

Some things never change.




I mean, IT was upset because they were in an impossible position....

Developer: I need half a million in equipment.

Management: Here's your stuff.

IT: I need 50k in equipment so we can actually backup/support the new equipment the developer got so we don't lose millions in work.

Management: I'm sorry, we don't have the budget for that.

IT: We'll I'm right screwed, ain't I.




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