My company switched from Lenovo to Toshiba... what does that mean?
Now we're switching to Dell
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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.
My company just switched from Lenovo to Dell and gets rid of 20% of the workforce
An acer: your boss is gonna try and f*ck you
Joke's on you, I have a trackpoint on my Dell Latitude
You guys are getting tech jobs?
Not all laptop users work in tech.
Do all tech workers work in tech?
Some of them are in theatre.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
I can second this too, 8 months same exact thing
Every month the CEO rolls a D100, if it's a 100 you're fired.
We need to expand the meme!
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.
HP laptop: your company has no idea what it's doing for it's entire technology department
Accurate
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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?
You are getting paid for 40hrs of work per week, but expected to put in 80hrs
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.
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...
What if it is an IBM ThinkPad.
Bonus security because you're clearly developing for legacy code.
I was able to choose my own Lenovo. Twice. 14+ years at the same place.
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I have a ThinkPad and this checks out
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.
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