Surely there must be a better way to do this
Thank god I've got Admin rights on my machine! We've tried doing it without Admin rights but it just becomes a nightmare of perpetual waiting for responses from IT. e.g. Getting all your software installed on a new machine can take 2-3 weeks with 20 emails and 6 hours of calls if we rely on IT, instead of 1 hour if we just do it ourselves.
I do actually wish I didn't need Admin rights, but life would be so much harder without them. 24-48hr waits for a 2min change is not something I'd look forward to. And as for killing processes that have gone haywire/stuck I'd rather not my only option be to restart the machine.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
