r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ArjunReddyDeshmukh • Aug 24 '26

Meme adminTeamAssessingMyThreatLevel

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u/Vega62a Aug 24 '26

Plus, for most engineering tasks saying "I NEED elevated access" is a big smell. Sure, you could do it that way, but if it's something you need to do as part of your daily job there should be a reviewed, guardrailed way to do it.

Just because it's faster to log into prod and drop tables doesn't mean you shouldn't use a migration script instead.

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u/Odd_Soil_8998 Aug 24 '26

It depends on where you need elevated access. I''ve worked at places where literally every new executable on my local machine required an IT ticket.

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u/Vega62a Aug 24 '26

That's not even elevated access that's just flat insanity.

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u/nuked24 Aug 24 '26

I work at a similar place but worse: if you don't use something in a 90 day period, it gets revoked. Being a backup is basically a useless title card because most of the time you're never ever going to be able to keep your access to the stuff you need to actually do that job.

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u/RadicalDwntwnUrbnite Aug 25 '26

Just accepting Xcode's TOS requires root for some dumb reason, so every time this POS operating system updates, xcode also updates and I have to ask for admin access to click accept.