[52-6F-62]

I work in a megacorp. Can confirm. Have to file tickets, and they have to seek approvals for either delegation of server allotments and subdomains or new dns pointers or worse.

I regularly need to host internal applications accessible by other staff and often just do so from my machine during the daytime and send them updated IP addresses/ports where they can access them... boss didn't even think it was possible...

Yeah. I imagine the government processes are pretty convoluted.

[paulmd]

And this is how you get departments running their own infrastructure lava-layered over the top of the unresponsive corporate IT...

[52-6F-62]

Pretty much.

Some of the tools are temporary mind you, and it's much quicker to run the temp tool on my machine through the local network for a couple of weeks than to spend a few days waiting on resource allocation and then getting it shut down afterward.

Some of them are scheduled to be merged into larger projects that will seek out the necessary permanent resources... in time.

And things always take their time. It's my first excursion into such a large company and it is boggling at times. Things that would be small flaws in a smaller business are magnified 10, or 100x.