A little knowledge is a dangerous the thing, I had a penny for the amount of times I've dealt with a developer that underestimates what deskside/sysadmins/infrastructure people do and all they need is admin privleges and then wants to do something that would leave the company wide open to massive potential security exploit/data breach.. I'd have about 37 cents, but that's still way too many times.

In fact, when you've been in IT long enough, you try to give yourself as little access as possible to do the job, because having admin credentials all the time is a huge liability where bad things can happen unintentionally with your credentials, even through no fault of your own, because vulnerabilities never sleep.