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I've worked in an environment where it'd be impossible to do your job if you didn't ignore IT.

I've posted about this before on here - "It was worse at $last_company where at my best count, I had 20+ different passwords, all with differing rules, and expiration policies, the solution in the end was a spreadsheet (contrary to IT policy) - which was stored on my workstation with full disk encryption."

If you have a choice between loosing 8 hours a week just to information access management or just ignoring the rules, which one would you pick?



Document and lose the 8 hours/week. Its not your 8 hours.


When you're a contractor, you often dont have that advantage - if for example all of your co-workers (and managers) violate policy in the same way, you're left being the odd man out, which does not bode well for your employment future. That said a large amount of "I cant because I'm locked out" was tolerated - if for no other reason that managing the account circus was too much for any one person.




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