They should give me access .... so I can just get it out of the way. I know what I’m doing
With the utmost respect, the amount of times i've heard this over the last 15 years followed a couple of months later by "Heyyyyyy so I kind of stuffed up, can you please spend the next 2 days unfucking whatever I stuffed up" is the problem.
Not saying your not an expert. I'm saying the people who CLAIMED to be an expert but were in fact not ruined it for the people who actually are experts.
God I'm just imagining my security managers face when I tell him "But X staff member says they've managed Y before so I'm sure its fine lets give full admin access!"