"Andre Bar'yudin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Are we talking 10,000+ employees?
More like 350,000+ ;-) I work for them, too... > In companies of such size the choise of almost everything on person's > desktop (as in wooden desk) is dictated by centralized policies. So > when you want to get something unusual, it is quite hard. I could > have told you all sorts of horror stories about getting tools needed > for the actual job, related to me by other people, but I'd better > not... If you are in such a situation, run... <metacomment> In my experience, it depends more on the people than on the size of the company. I've worked for some small ones and for a couple of really big ones. At one company with about 15 employees the management objected to my turning the desk by 90 degrees *in my private office for one*, citing "company policy". At the current behemoth no one objects to your installing Fedora or gentoo or Debian on your desktop/laptop, and having the root password, and *not* giving the root password to the IS department. To make a direct comparison with the case mentioned above, here you log a simple request and maintenance people come within a couple of hours and turn your desk around (and bring a new one if the old one does not fit the new geometry) and move your shelves from one wall to another the way you want them, at least as long as it does not bother your office mate. I also have opposite examples from my personal experience (e.g., very small companies with liberal and flexible attitudes). </metacomment> -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.goldshmidt.org ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
