Sometimes your IT people know what's best for you
Sometime in the last century, I was contracted out to a large non-profit NGO that everyone thinks is a real Gov. Agency. Their IT infrastructure was non-existent.
It was a hodge-podge of . . . things, and my company was brought in to give them a real, unified network (Netware. This is how long ago it was.). Honestly, they had no centralized IT and each department had their own way of running their computers. After bringing in a consultant, they hired an IT Director, who contracted with us to jump-start everything.
As I said, each department did their own computer thing, wit the result that one department had a pretty good hobbyist who gave them something resembling a pretty good network, while Marketing used (if memory serves) a Wordperfect peer-to-peer thingy, and most of the rest of the NGO used Sneakernet to transfer data.
After we had ported everything and everyone over to Netware, we then went desk-to-desk to install agents that would run a backup of the users computer (Yes, everyone is going to ask why we just didn't install the agents when we built the new machines. 760
I honestly don't remember; I think someone just f'd up.). Most people didn't mind; the install took only a few minutes and the user could get coffee while we were installing it. But one guy did everything he could to keep us from touching his computer--I'll call him DA.
DA worked in a two-person department that created critical documents. See, this NGO sold reference standards of various chemicals, and each chemical, when sent to a client, absolutely must be accompanied by a Safety Data Sheet (SDS) for that chemical. As I said, this was a two-person department at the time: The manager researched & wrote the SDSs, and DA entered them into a flat-file dBase+ database, that was, of course, kept on his custom-built, non-standard, tower computer. He also had written a lot of DOOM levels that were pretty popular on the baby internet, and he looked down on us mere technicians. (If you can find anything from Dead Cat Productions, those are his levels.).
Yes, he balked at us installing a backup agent on the only computer in the entire company that held these important documents.
We in IT had to get HR, Legal, and VP level people involved in order to force this guy to give us access to his machine. We got the agent installed, but not without suffering nasty looks from him for about 6 business days....
....until the seventh business day, when he came into our little corner of the building, virtual hat in hand, and asked if we might have any backups of all his data handy. Yep--his HDD had smoked (literally) and both he and his boss had the chemists calling for their heads on platters.
We gave him our slowest standard machine (explaining it was all we had and we'd go ahead and order him a faster one), had him install dBase+ and we restored his data, and he and his boss limped along for a few days.
He still balked at us touching his new machine, though. 760