My current and most irritating peeve is developers/users insisting they MUST have Admin rights to their desktop in order to do their job. On numerous occasions, we have granted admin rights, only to turn right back around and have the user calling and complaining about their machine running extremely slow or “tons of pop-ups” appearing on their machine. As usual their desktops are inundated with spyware and erroneous software that has been downloaded and now creating problems. Upper management says they will back me on “no admin rights”, however, when a user/developer “whines” to a VP, I end up having to give them admin rights. As a result of this constant battle, I also have numerous unlicensed applications that they have installed. I’m damned if I do, and damned if I don’t. Does anyone have any suggestions?
