...the entire system totters on the verge of collapse. Security infrastructure keeps anything useful from being done, usability requirements keep everything to vague to be actually useful. Sites go up and down faster than the stock market, admin curse and swear and rewrite their site policies twice a day.

Since when do we work in the same office?

The difference is that we're chronically behind everyone else. Out admin once liquidated all of the computers planned for a department wide update because they had become obsolete before they got around to rolling them out.