One Access Restriction Backfired When Management Removed An Employee’s Vital Files And He Used The Situation To Prove How Essential His Role Really Was
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Removing someone’s tools can create more work than the company ever expected.
What happens when IT removes the only access keeping an important system running smoothly?
Instead of arguing, this system owner sent them every task they would now need to handle.
Check out how quickly management reconsidered that decision.
Access Removed – Here’s allllll my work
I work in a role where I ‘own’ a portion of the software.
I don’t work in IT but I do system configuration for the portion I manage.
It’s all Greek to me.
I had admin access until one day IT removed it without warning and without notice.
They claimed ‘risk’ and ‘board decisions’
Of course I could rampage and get my access back because it saves the company a significant amount of money each year as we don’t need to use external contractors.
Seems silly to remove it at all.
There’s also no one else in the company that knows my part of the system or how to create business rules, scripting and coding for this particular system.
While people know JavaScript they would need to become familiar with the system which will take time.
Instead- fine; sends a list of alllll the things they now need to take over so the work still gets done.
That seems wildly inefficient.
Noted there can be no delays in turnaround time despite there being an extra step.
Noted that I will still need to approve every change and configuration.
The list totaled to approximately 30 hours per week.
With no extra pay? Awful management.
It also requires 6am starts at points through the month.
I made sure to also confirm they would also be required to come with me for all meetings regarding the system or data because I won’t be repeating myself or duplicating my effort.
Within 30 minutes the decision was reversed and I had my access back.
Ain’t that just the way.
I don’t think that’ll be changing back any time soon.
Not when we work under separate budgets and their team always cry time and cost poor.
Bosses never seem to know how valuable their employees are until they almost lose them. Let’s see what the Reddit community had to say.
Some folks empathized with the original poster.
Others lamented bad business practices.
One person lectured the poster.
Another person began to talk shop.
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And one person even commended him for his work ethic.
This employee responded to losing admin access by sending IT roughly 30 hours of weekly tasks, early starts, and required meetings.
Within 30 minutes, the decision was reversed and the system owner received full access again.
IT removed one login and nearly inherited another full-time job.
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