Imagine getting a new job. You come into the office on the first day. Instead of handing you a laptop, they just give you a chair in the break room. You'll be working off a linux distro that's been installed into the door of a smart fridge.
But you're not allowed to sit directly in front of it. Don't block the fridge
Nah, you will be allowed to sit in front. Part of your job will be cleaning out the fridge, keeping track of how long items have been there, and storing and retrieving items for people. You'll basically be a fridge librarian.
The frigidairian, even.
My company is using Lenovo, and a bunch of my colleagues were already working there 20+ years ago, now I've got a permanent contract too... I think it might check out.
My company is using Lenovo
Someone died in front of it! ~~And that's how you got hired.~~
Actually, my position was newly created in a company just now fostering overdue digitalisation. Some bloke came up with the idea of actually trying to figure out what they're doing and justifying their effort at progress with figures because that's what upper management likes to see, so they brought me on to do just that.
People definitely died for the company, but that's not my fault. ~~Or so I tell myself to sleep at night.~~
I'm in a weird unicorn org where we were issued MacBooks, but some of the people on my team have been there >20 years. The broader org issues Thinkpads, my dept picked MacBooks because apparently that's what developers use and we didn't want to deal with corporate's locked-down images.
I've been there about 4 years now, which is almost as long as my dept has existed (we started w/ a contractor group for 1-2 years before I got hired on).
I hate macOS, but I really like the dept. We'll see what happens.
We get macbooks at my work because we develop for linux servers but IT don't want to have to deal with linux clients on their network.
The corporate surveillance infrastructure is there for MacOS and it's nix enough for the development we need to do.
We had them complaining a few years ago that all these macbooks were too expensive (which they are) and we said to them "We're happy to take good quality Linux laptops..."
IT were like "Nah"
My first laptop with this company was a £3000+ MBP with an I9 which got too hot to touch. TBH since they replaced it with an M3 one i've actually enjoyed using it. i can spend all day in bed on a single charge
Are you British me? That's pretty much exactly how things went down for us as well. As we've been upgrading from the crappy Intel Macs, the complaints have gone down as well.
Yeah i'm london based (although almost exclusively work from home). the company is a huge multinational though, offices all over the world
Wait... but my manager has been at his job for 18 years and we use.... oh god, Lenovos. 😱
An acer: your boss is gonna try and f*ck you
Hmm, is the boss hot?
... and sweaty ... and hairy ... very, very hairy. :(
My company switched from Lenovo to Toshiba... what does that mean?
Now we're switching to Dell
Now we’re switching to Dell
Fs in chat. O7
My company just switched from Lenovo to Dell and gets rid of 20% of the workforce
HP laptop: please remember to log out of ~~your~~ the laptop in case someone else needs to use it.
Edit: Management took offence at the language of the previous memo.
Always "a" dildo, or "the" dildo, never "your" dildo...
Always use the indefinite article.
HP laptop: your company has no idea what it's doing for it's entire technology department
Lenovo replaced with Dell when the startup I work at was purchased by a multinational a year and a half ago. They’re closing our office down and moving operations out of state in June.
Chromebook?
Did they ask you to make a western union transfer in order to secure your application?
I'm not getting that money back, am I?
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