One of my favorite perks of moving up out of an internal IT helpdesk role to sysadmin/systems engineering/tech infra work. Not a manager, but if someone ends up talking to me, it usually stops with me.
People start speculating about how a system works and it's capabilities, hoping to make it someone else's problem to get them what they are responsible for? Trying to blame one of my systems for not doing something it was never made to do?
Hi, I built that.
Few things as satisfying as watching someone absolutely torpedo some big audit because they thought they could use my systems as an excuse or somehow make it my problem instead of theirs at the 11th hour.