Warp wrote:
> Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> Warp wrote:
>>> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>>>> With great responsibility comes great power
>>>   Wasn't it the other way around?-)
> 
>> Well as you both know, it *should* be that the two come together - you 
>> are held responsible for that which you actually have power over. But - 
>> as I'm sure you're also both aware - this is sadly not always the case...
> 
>   You mean sometimes you are held responsible for things which are not
> under your control at all?
> 
Essentially that has been his main complaint here over the years in his 
blog posts. I.e. the ones in which he did not complain about the lack of 
female company other than his mother.
He is responsible for much of the network and the functioning of the 
company software. So his company made sure there was always a key 
component in the US that could be changed there overnight.
This thread was initiated because he is responsible for the, legally 
required, documentation of the changes made to the systems. So someone 
higher up decided to let a bunch of guys without any knowledge of the 
legal implications take much of his computers apart and install new 
programs. He was there to record what was going on (hopefully enough to 
fake a standard procedure retrospectively) but they would just as well 
have done it when he was on holiday.
If they had given him the power that goes with this responsibility, he 
should have given these guys the documents that explain the legal 
requirements and told them to go home and come back the next day after 
reading it. As it is his power to do appears to be just below that of 
the cleaning lady.

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