Compliments change nothing, IT departments exist to advance IT department personnel and bottom line, of local PC crackerbox manufacturers.
If IT departments were any good at what they do we wouldn't still need them.
So, your beef is that the IT department where you work wouldn't let you bring in a Mac, GOOD! Who knows how well your machine is patched (and an explosive device and how much malware as well as viruses you might have? No, forget the safety of the entire network, and therefore the entire company, you want to be able to bring in any device and as any self respective IT department told you, No, Hell no. Guess what, all it takes is one And now you're mad. I hear there are some sort of Doctors that can help you with that.
If IT departments were any good at what they do we wouldn't still need them.
Now I really know you're clueless. Yeah, who needs backups, patch management DRPs as well as testing them?
English, logic and grammar are all available at a your local community college.