It all depends who came up with the idea. I've worked plenty of places where an otherwise sensible IT decision (eg, 'don't use the server room as a fridge') would be overruled by someone higher up. After all, if they get paid more money that me, then they must know better right?
Of course, when said idiotic decision turned out to be a bad idea, it wasn't the execs that took the blame....
("why didn't you tell us it was a bad idea", 'I did, here's the email', "I didn't read that, you should have told me in person", 'I did!', "well, I don't remember that, so it's all your fault").
Biting the hand that feeds IT
