I don't believe that was the intent. I think orange showed a lot of integrity asking those questions. In a company i used to work for, if I tried to bypass the IT dept, there would be consequences up to and including termination. So I think the questions were relevant.
Now we know more about you.
Question: What are your permissions regarding the Sybase dB? R/W or R/O?
Question: What do you feel is your programming (VBA) level?
Question: Have you created anything in your Access dB yet?
(got to go. My ride is here).....