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I love this InfoWorld article for the sheer lack of self awareness involved. Writing from the "trenches" of IT, we get:
If there's a happy ending, this is it: The evil empire of bureaucracy never realizes that IT is awesomely adept at subverting authority. We attend teleconferences from our desk, where we multitask. We fill out the innumerable forms "they" insist they need by copying and pasting from other documents. We swiftly learn what they consider the right answer and give it back to them as quickly as we can, so we can get back to work.
In short, instead of confronting the enemy head on, we move into guerrilla-warfare mode. Long live the rebel forces!
Sorry to burst your bubble, but for too many of us, the "they" you speak of is IT, and the "rebel forces" are the rest of the organization desperately trying to get work done in the face of mindless IT "standards" that get rammed down our throats.