Working IT In The Stone Age

Due to the recent snow days several people have asked for a) laptops or b) remote access to their PCs in order to work from home when the roads are closed. 

The answer to the first was a resounding NO.  Not because of cost but because laptops are only given to those IT peeps required to support production environments after hours.  Which makes no sense as 90% of our on-call staff don't have laptops but all of our PMs (none of whom support the production systems) have them. 

The answer to the second was we'll give you remote access to your e-mail and the LAN but not to your PC.  Which just goes to show that the people making this decision do not understand how our development environment is set up because our development tools are local, not virtual, and without this access these IT peeps can't work. 

That or they don't trust us to actually work when we work from home and I would prefer not to contemplate that as it will piss me off.  In the meantime I am still the only member of my team with full remote access, thus I am still the only one on call 24/7/365 (minus when I'm out of the country) for all of our apps.