Hmmm... if the corp network guys don't like it, they should exclude it from the DHCP pool. I presume they are in charge of the DHCP and therefor the pool.

So what part of it do they not like... the part of it ending with 0 or the mask?

Try my trick to force the DHCP server to flag that IP as bad.
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