[LexBaird]

BTW, When I first started in I.S. with my former Fortune 500 employer, our division’s computer department was called “I.S.”, “Information Services”. Somewhere along the way they changed it to I.T. By then I was working in Engineering Services and could see that the focus of “I.T.” was no longer on Service to the company as a whole but rather on Information Technology, as in “This is OUR thing and making it easy for us is more important than providing a SERVICE to the rest of the company”.

One only needs browse this thread to see that in spades. How dare you ask the IT dept. to actually SUPPORT something they don't like? Don't you know how scary it is outside the entrenched comfort zone? They might actually need to know something beyond MS.

Better not question them. Who knows what retributive blackmail they have on you, should you actually need them to, you know, do their job and provide tech support.

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One only needs browse this thread to see that in spades. How dare you ask the IT dept. to actually SUPPORT something they don't like? Don't you know how scary it is outside the entrenched comfort zone? They might actually need to know something beyond MS.

Better not question them. Who knows what retributive blackmail they have on you, should you actually need them to, you know, do their job and provide tech support.

This level of cluelessness is awesome. So some user wants to use a Mac and we're supposed to bend over for him, get a clue. Since you obviously don't have a clue, IT does more than support servers and users, there's the network itself, there's ensuring that intrusion detection is working, there's disaster recovery tests and on and on. Supporting a Mac would be child's play but why when THERE IS NO BUSINESS CASE, get that through your fanboy head.

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Better not question them. Who knows what retributive blackmail they have on you, should you actually need them to, you know, do their job and provide tech support.

We read the firewall logs, I would keep that in mind if I was you.