I've never been given any official IT role, but being an engineer sure helps when 'informing managers of technical issues', specially when the IT department bills for every bit of service. Personally, I can't stand not having admin rights on any computer I'm using for an extended period of time, specially Win boxes, as they are so rarely configured very well. It's funny how some IT overlords would rather let a computer continue to run badly, than risk having a user cause problems.
