• yesterday...true story

    Me: what permissions do they need to do the thing?
    Dev: give them sysadmin, its only a dev box
    Me: No...we can't do that in prod, so what do they actually need?
    Guy that pays my invoices: give them sysadmin
    Me: sure...but we're back here in this same conversation next week about prod.

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