IT rant:
Back in the 1990s before all of you newbs knew about computers, I had certifications from Bay Networks, 3com, and Novell. The IEEE didn't even respond to RFI's for years at a time.
At that time, I was Stewart from eTrade.
I did what I wanted, came in when I wanted to, and had control of everything. I wouldn't even think of giving myself all of the passwords now, but this was before any type of Directory Services (active directory for you newbs), and basically you had to have the keys to all of it.
I could get away with anything because I worked on the weekends, wayyyyy late at night, all nighters were regular, etc. I made the fancy TV screen print out money.
I sat in meetings with Doctors, CEOs, Hospital Admins, and I had no college degree. I made a boatload of money, and I was everybody's hero.
Then the Professional Management Class got involved. These are do-nothings with MBAs who recognized how much of a fast track it would be inserting themselves between me and the people that IT served.
My work got reduced to the equivalent of Maintenance at a factory. I was a smart guy that ran all the machines, but that just made Brent the know-nothing moron CIO resentful of me as a necessary evil.
Now IT sucks. It fucking sucks. It's the department that has the greatest intellectual gulf between the worker bees and Management. Managers are typically 105 IQ midwits who were smart enough to cheat their way through grad school hungover. So they hired stupider and stupider IT workers to granularize the power and authority and direct it all to them. Now if you want to image a server or reset a database, you have to get permission from 4 people who have nothing to do with those systems. The main part of the job is protecting the company from people saying the n-word on message boards or surfing porn. IT is now HR: it's a department to protect a company's ass.
IT is now a cost-center. The only thing that the Board or anyone in upper Mgmt sees is red ink next to IT.
And everyone is an expert. Some fucking 35 year old asshole who set up a home network now makes all kinds of requests about what the system should magically do. They will spend long minutes explaining to you how things should be and how you're doing it wrong. You have to humor these fags because they're the Users.
In 1994 I would just tell those people to fuck off in so many words, and if they got uppity I'd march into the nearest manager's office and soon that person would be reduced to proper obsequiousness.
For a while you could move farther and farther away from the bullshit by moving into infrastructure. But Cisco got on the MCSE 'everyone is certified! you get a cert! you get a cert! you get a cert!' game and now you have retards from High School coming in and telling you why you should use EIGRP instead of static routes. Now your job is de-educating some kids who got Cisco certs from a Votech program in high school. No fucking thanks.
Cisco is exactly like Microsoft. Play by Play. They market to Managers and offer over-expensive, low-performance, over-optioned products. Bay was better. It was faster, more reliable, and cheaper. But you had to buy into Cisco because they were the hot up and comer. I mean yeah by '98 or so the shit was fun and sexy, but did a 5 location manufacturing firm really need a $10,000 switch at the central office? Nahhh. But hey...
IT is all fucked up. Shitty industry.
So now I had to change it again and go through the whole process of getting them the password. 
