My first reaction was: ha, funny and a nice way to leverage your power as an IT person. Kind of revenge of the nerds towards the ‘suits’.
But then I realized that IT abused their power and lied to the suits which is outright wrong. At the end of the day you’re in IT and the suits are in charge. Don’t like that? Find another job or grab a position that gets you this power.
The problem is: you don’t always oversee the consequences of your roque actions. In this case the stakes were low, but where do you draw the line? If I were a suit and found out that you deliberately throttled the connection to force us in a decision I would be furious. That is simply not your call.
But then I realized that IT abused their power and lied to the suits which is outright wrong. At the end of the day you’re in IT and the suits are in charge. Don’t like that? Find another job or grab a position that gets you this power.
The problem is: you don’t always oversee the consequences of your roque actions. In this case the stakes were low, but where do you draw the line? If I were a suit and found out that you deliberately throttled the connection to force us in a decision I would be furious. That is simply not your call.