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On filing the corners off my MacBooks
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this post was submitted on 14 Apr 2026
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My IT department doesn't even let us put stickers on the laptops out of concerns about damage
Your IT department is ludicrous. The resale value isn’t impacted by stickers; they’re sold in lots.
My IT department puts anything capable of storing data into a chipper when its time has come. The guys who load the trucks will throw laptops like frisbees into the steel cage that they lock the devices in between the office and the shredder.
They probably wouldn’t care if you gave your laptop a tattoo or even a piercing.
Right? It's not like they're filing down the edges or something
I'm not quite sure whether we're forbidden to put stickers on our work laptops, but almost everybody does. How else am I supposed to recognise mine after leaving it in a meeting room with a few others and coming back a while later?
I've never put stickers on any of my equipment, personal or otherwise ... But someone at my work once told me that one could procure plastic shells you can put on Macbooks so you can a. Not damage the device and b. Take your stickers with you when you leave.
How am I supposed to project my corporate signalling?
That's the excuse they give you. The real reason is that they don't want employees expressing their personalities or affiliations while representing the company.
I could see someone putting a sticker over a vent for the aesthetics and cause that's where the loud noise generally comes from.
I mean, stickers are sometimes pretty hard to remove and leave behind permanent marks on some finishes, but that's a hard nitpick.
I like seeing stickers on employee's laptops, means they at least somewhat enjoy working here.
I say this to in general, but the reason why may be because the work laptop doesn’t belong to them?
Are they the kind of person who will doodle and scribble and highlight whole paragraphs in fluo yellow, rip covers and pages, and scorn the corners of a book that was loaned to them?
Some people have no respect for someone else’s property.