Ok, I got to ask this question to you guys since you guys seems reasonable enough to give an honest opinion. The above question was asked on Slashdot. The question is ok but the comments to the question is what get's me. I've never worked for a big company - always small ones and creating startups so I never had to deal with a "real" IT bureaucracy. If a problem needs to be solved, we figure out ways to solve them!
How different is this in big companies? Sure there's policy and things like that but from reading the comments, 90% of the people are basically saying "FIRE HIM" or "You're lucky you didn't get fired!". This doesn't make sense to me. I would thing the nice thing to do talk to him about different solutions to find a workable solution. That seems to be the most reasonable thing to do.
Why in the world do these guys sound so angry? Doesn't this anger basically kill any enterprenureship inside the company? If the first sign is to fire someone who happens to bring a computer to fufill a need that (probably) isn't being fufilled, won't that discourage everyone else from trying new stuff?
From the sounds of the IT people on Slashdot, if it takes 2 years or so to impliment something innovative, so be it! Of course, as we all know as enterprenures, by that time, the idea would probably be taken over by us.
Is this really how IT companies work in big organizations?