Downer

Ok, so I am in Elizabethtown now and working at my summer job again.  I love the people, i love the atmosphere, but there is one issues that will never escape me.  Its called limited permissions and here is my case.  I have been at the company for 3 summers now and have proven myself every year.  Yet, it seems that every year I return I have fewere and fewer persmissions to work with.  I do realize i am part time, I am just an intern, and everytime I return there are new bosses with new policies and new ways of doing things.  I get that, I don't get not giving someone enough permission enough rights to do his or her job. 

Think about this today someone sent a work order to see who had a particular file open on the server because they needed to some work on it and it was locked.  This is a very simple task of connecting to the file and print server's compmgmt.msc console and going to System Tools>Shared folders> Open Files, this is a very easy task.  There is one problem though you have to have pretty substantial rights to access this, however,  I know you can give a group rights to certain objects and not allow access to others.  This would be nice.  Instead of putting in red tap everywhere and making work orders wait in the Database for several days until the guy with the rights comes in and you can talk to him.  Its stupid why create this black hole, I am not asking for the rights to grant permissions to add Security Groups in AD or change the Global policy.  I just want enough rights to do my job, to handle tickets, hell to learn.  I think is a saying about putting a goldfish in a small tank, it says he won't grow he might even shrink, if you put the goldfish into a large tank he'll grow to be really big.  I think this is kinda what is going on, I mean think about it I am in a small permission set and it feels like my brain just turns itself off cause I know I can not do anything about certain tickets so I don't even  attempt to troubleshoot (half the time I don't have the rights to troubleshoot properly). 

I just think that before glorified Senior Admins, Top Mangement, decide to restrict Junior admins, technicians, they should think about how much time they are wasting by throwing in so much red tape.  I know it is a requirement but think it through, be smarter.  Eventurally workers will like the fact that you care.