You know you're in a big company when...

Two PCs sitting next to each other on the floor are on different subnets and go through so many switches that copying files from one to the other takes hours rather than minutes.

Because the company has an IT department which has a policy to ban minihubs to force user departments to pay money for more network ports, and two of your managers have to pressure IT to get them to set you up a network switch.

SneakerNet is used to bypass obstacles (intentionally or otherwise) in the networking architecture. Then Company issues policies against using portable media to share files between devices.

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when issues take days to absolve remotely when it could take minutes in person- because of bad infrastructure.

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