Comment Re:IT is a customer service group (Score 1) 576
Well then they'll have to turn the damn thing on theirselves, wasting all of 2 minutes.
This is a greater problem than you think. Our policy is that we have to turn off out laptops every evening, it takes 10-15 minutes for my laptop to boot and have Outlook up and running in the morning, this is due to the various crapware it must run in our environment. The newest laptops where I work still take over 5 minutes to boot. Even with the newer laptops that means that in any year employees are loosing half a working week every year waiting for computers to become usable, I seriously doubt any of the IT guys where I work earn less in half a week than the additional electricity costs required to keep their PC running 24x7.