Given the op's claimed experience if they don't understand that your pc on your desk top is not the same as your dev/test/live systems - it's about time some one pointed this out to them before they get in real trouble at work.
What?
What, in anything the OP said, makes you think they don't understand the difference between their workstation and the dev/test/live systems?
I understand the difference between those, what makes you think I don't?