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Every "rising" company has a few people like this, a few key players who know the field or have such niche expertise that they get given the largest leeway and most room to do whatever they want, as long as the results keep coming in.

The catch here is that the more successful the company gets, the more power and flexibility they have to get the exact kind of employee they want. So if you dream of being in this position, be careful and don't let it go to your head just because you were free to join the meeting 10 minutes late in your pajamas in the early days.

Yeah, the director of our network security team looks like a swamp wizard.

I worked for a small third party AT&T chop shop once. I pulled all sorts of crap there. I remember they gave me a Dell that annoyed me in just the right way that I nuked it and installed Linux.

Others saw and word spread and they fucking hated windows 11 too. Nothing happened right away, it’s was kind of like a freak show thing. “The nonconformist found an out”. Then the network engineer said “fuck this. What distro are the kids into these days?” and nuked his dell and now we only had one person running bare metal windows left in IT. And he was annoyed he had problems when we didn’t.

So he issued a new decree that we had to use the same software our customers were using. We have to “dogfood our own solutions.” We wiped and moved back, begrudgingly.

He wasn’t wrong but that Dell ran like shit with windows. We had a BYOD policy at work that nobody actually did anything with but was technically there though.

So I bought a surface pro X second hand off eBay and brought it in.

As bad a machine as that was, it was bad in predictable and therefor manageable ways. And boss looked over, sighed, and just let me have the win.

Until big boss saw I had something shinier than he did. And they were NOT going to give him something like that as they did NOT want to provide support for it. So the X was banned from the office.

I never come up from my dungeon to talk to accounting. I send a precisely formatted, detailed, and concise email that they inevitably only read half of.

I'd rather have a paper trail anyway.

I work in legal tech.

Can confirm. We're weird, and you don't want to piss off accounting.

Manamana

…and that shaggy MF wants $40,000,000 for next years hardware refresh and 8yr support licensing.

Source: I am that shaggy MF.

In a company I worked for in the 1990's, accounting was all women, many hot, and all horned up. I do not mean this as a good thing. I was in a committed relationship to my now wife and these ladies didn't stop. They also had a stack of Playgirl and other nude men magazines in their bathroom. Very toxic, but that was southern Louisiana back then.

I worked at two of the biggest accounting firms in the world. You know, the kind that you read about in the news because they're hiding rich people's money. And yes, the older ones especially, are useless with computers. We had one secretary to a senior partner who insisted on having a typewriter.

Yep, I can confirm.

Accountants think it's a guy

IT is far more subtle and complex than that

I used to work in the call center of a regional office for a giant company. I got the opportunity to “apprentice” with another department, which basically meant I would shadow the same employee for an hour or two a week for six months and then I could apply for a transfer and they’d hire me preferentially unless I seemed like a fuckup. The department was staffed with 90% former biglaw attorneys who didn’t want to deal with the rat race anymore and located in the main office. I felt like this the first time I showed up in my nice jeans and a fancy-to-me top to this incredible marbled building full of people wearing suits more expensive than my car.

I got that job, by the way, and less than two years later, it had demoralized me to the point that I left “per mutual agreement” and went back to school to move to an entirely different industry. I did also make enough money in that time to finance a move abroad, including living expenses for three years, visas, bringing my cat with me, and grad school though, so I’m not exactly mad about it in the end.