• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    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.

    • PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk
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      1 day ago

      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

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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        1 day ago

        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.

        • PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk
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          1 day ago

          Yeah i’m london based (although almost exclusively work from home). the company is a huge multinational though, offices all over the world

  • lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 days ago

    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.

    • uis@lemm.ee
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      2 days ago

      My company is using Lenovo

      Someone died in front of it! And that’s how you got hired.

      • lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de
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        1 day ago

        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.

  • WoodScientist@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 days ago

    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.

    • Malfeasant@lemm.ee
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      2 days ago

      Layoffs will be a regular occurrence. Think you’re safe because you have a lot of seniority? My wife was laid off by Chase just a couple weeks before her 20 year anniversary. Funnily enough, they had just switched everyone to thin clients a year or two before.

      • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        2 days ago

        It was a sign they were trying to cut long term costs over user convenience long term when they switched to thing clients. Budget cuts are never a good sign in business that are “supposed” to be growing

      • Edgarallenpwn@midwest.socialEnglish
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        2 days ago

        Lol I got a layoff notice last Thursday at another financial institute. Our whole environment is Lenovo. I noticed at the end of last year that 2025s upcoming EOL refresh was going to be all thin laptop conversions.

        But don’t worry guys, I can apply for 10 dollars less an hour to the new contractor they are bring on to delay the inevitable.

    • CgH10N4Co2@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Your boss is constantly micromanaging you, but you can’t get anything done because thin clients suck.

      • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de
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        2 days ago

        Haha.

        I know this was a joke but I like to shout out that my employers are amazing.

        I’m a software developer for a small company, less than 10 employees. Recently we got given a pay rise and a reduction in hours at the same time. They started the business to have a good life, not to work their employees to death.

        We get so much support when needed and there is never an issue if you’re sick or just need a mental health day. We don’t get targets and the work just gets done. We are fair with our clients and they come back for repeat work and recommend us.

  • PieMePlenty@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    We got lenovo’s in my last job. I did support software tools for internal usage. Pay was low but work was not overbearing and I could have spent my whole life there. Current job, I got a MinisForum mini PC, what does that mean?

    • reallykindasorta@slrpnk.netOP
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      2 days ago

      From a sample size of one other commenter, you will be employed for 1 year until they can’t find enough for you to do and have to let you go.

  • Carl@lemm.eeEnglish
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    3 days ago

    My last tech job gave me a Microsoft Surface, which possibly explains why I was hired with the promise that things would be really busy, barely did anything for a year, and then got let go because there just wasn’t enough work to justify retaining my position.