You guys are getting tech jobs?
So what if all the desks are set up with thin or zero clients.
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.
Your boss is constantly micromanaging you, but you can’t get anything done because thin clients suck.
Haha, I set up a few hundred for a transition happening at a college years ago. They also got a few laptops that were thin clients. For a full time machine id assume it would be problematic. But when it’s constantly rotating users like that, it makes management pretty simple / cheaper long term. I assume they took some of the market away from products like deepfreeze. (Not saying it’s a better solution than deepfreeze, just that they likely stole some of the users)
I’ve heard Wyse has gone downhill since Dell bought it though, not sure if true.
What about a Microsoft Surface?
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.
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.
Every month the CEO rolls a D100, if it’s a 100 you’re fired.
We need to expand the meme!
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?
You will never receive any acknowledgement or raises.
What if you get two HP Pavillion Desktops. One for home and one for the office?
HP laptop: your company has no idea what it’s doing for it’s entire technology department
Accurate
My last 3 jobs all used HP… No major issues.
Worst thing that happened with my HP work laptop is somebody knocked my water over onto it and it died. That was 2 hours after I got it and spend 2 hours installing everything onto it.
Boot up from external device and watch it wipe non-windows boot entries (yes, even with secure boot off) and then not automatically find any other EFI files so you have to navigate to them manually. Oh, and the only way to add them back is efibootmgr tool, or if you want GUI, Bootice in Hiren’s boot (yes that’s still a thing).
At least that was experience with HP 255 G7.As for another one, a mini PC, the UEFI setup seems to have limited HID driver support. Basic cheap keyboard seems to be a must. DO NOT DISABLE SECURE BOOT IF JUST THE MOUSE WORKS!!! Upon reboot, it will ask you to confirm disabling secure boot by TYPING in something. Every time. Even if you reset UEFI with the motherboard pins.
At least that was experience with HP ProDesk 400 G3 mini.But hey, I also had issues with Dell, I think Optiplex 7020. It was unable to boot via internal DVD drive. I tried 2 of them, both fared the same, no problem reading and burning discs in OS. I tried a USB DVD drive, that magically worked. What?
Yeah but a random (non IT especially) probably wouldn’t need to boot from an external device, would they? As for the UEFI changes, a random employee shouldn’t be in the BIOS either I would think.
I’m really curious on those, I don’t do that sort of thing these days so sort of wondering how impactful it could be. Outside of the random person who thinks they should change them but that’s got to be pretty minimal and IT should lock it down anyways.
What if it is an IBM ThinkPad.
Bonus security because you’re clearly developing for legacy code.
I have a ThinkPad and this checks out
I was able to choose my own Lenovo. Twice. 14+ years at the same place.
Oh, hey, 15+ and on my second Lenovo here too 👋
Albeit I had a desktop at first. Don’t remember which brand.
Seems like you chose wisely! I kind of want you to choose a dell for science next time, but it would definitely be against your best interests according to the laws of physics that mysteriously underly this phenomenon.
The laws of thermal- and accoustic physics are surely warped within Dell hardware. Otherwise, I have no explanation why it acts so much worse than other laptops with similar specs.
HP laptop: please remember to log out of
yourthe laptop in case someone else needs to use it.Edit: Management took offence at the language of the previous memo.
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.
You cash out?
I got a decent windfall when my stock vested instantly, but I don’t think I’m going to make it to the final payout of my retention bonus. As soon as annual bonus hits in March, I’m donion rings.
Panasonic Toughbook: You’re gone get wet and dirty.
Thoughtbook? is that like an offbrand ThinkPad?
Thoughts and prayers book is a whole other technology with paper and ink and shit.
Op got a porn studio job.
I’ve seen them using them at In n out for the drive thru.
Wet and dirty indeed
Promise?
I’ve had so many Dell Laptops…
Union.
HP but it switches with Dell every 5 years.
My peers have been there 20+ years. No one’s dumb enough to get fired. I only got this job because someone retired.
The people are awesome. I hope to God I can work here another decade.
