It’s that time again to remind people to never mess—in any way, shape, form, capacity, whatever—with IT guys.
Having devious things done to your computer is a given and actually expected if you irk an IT guy something fierce. They can, however, resort to much more colossal forms of retribution. You know, like malicious compliance.
That is, malicious compliance with a manager who didn’t let an IT get in a word edgewise about something the manager thought was a personal project being done during work, but the CEO had to step in.