Win11: the gift that keeps on giving.
IT Dept. has decreed that now we are on Win11, every thing will be lost stored on The Cloud: all client data is now entered online, but also everything from Holiday application forms to client progress reports are kept on a secure server. Because things regularly vanished in to the ether, several of us kept nonconfidential items on USB sticks which turned a twenty-minute manual search into a thirty-second click-and print. Then IT department realised what we were doing and remotely locked our USB ports*. Everything would be stored on The Great Cloud.
This system "worked" at least from the IT department's point of view: we wasted time finding everything on Teams which we previously could just open in seconds, and all was decreed to be well.
Until earlier this week when the W-Lan went from being slow and awkward to non-existent, and then today even the wired network went down, so we are all sitting around waiting for someone in central office to get around to switching it off and on again so we can actually do our job.
Fortunately the Industry Standard till programme has been declared incompatible with the new network, so that runs on a separate Win10 based "Shadow System" run by a local tech, so at least the shop could still open...
Latest status is that IT "Support" will get it back online when they've dealt with important things like the colour of the new user dashboard. The opinion locally is that they're sulking because we broke their shiny new system.
*Or possibly they just stopped working, it's hard to tell.