• 516052 (unregistered)

    Over the too many decades that I lived the one thing that always astounds me is how far people are willing to go to stay working in places like this. How they happen is easy enough to see. That's not an issue. But the reason they stay like that for so long is only because workers, top to bottom are willing to put up with them and work around them just to get the job done. And that I do not understand.

    I understand staying in a place like that just long enough to find a better job. But that's it.

  • (nodebb)

    I work in a similar environment, and it's definitely annoying to deal with at times. It isn't nearly as bad as the article, though. If it takes that long to get anything done, the problem isn't really with the regulatory program, it's with your IT staff. Either the company doesn't have enough IT staff to manage the network and the new requests, or some manager is being a dick and refusing to approve the tools that the software engineers need. Where I work, it's mostly the former; we would definitely be better off with maybe another dozen or so IT staff, but stuff generally does get approved without much hassle once the request finally gets picked up by someone in IT.

  • (nodebb)

    could not add various hardware to the network (such as the company's own products, which made testing them awfully difficult) and so on

    They seriously didn't think of creating a separate QA network? That isn't the worst idea in the world in its own right, as it prevents traffic glitches in the main network from interfering in the QA process and vice versa.

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