The amount of screen size reflects the amount of work you do. So a smaller size has become a status signal. Showing you do not actually work.
You do meetings
I don't have a phone. I just witness. I am posting this by sheer force of will. Someone hire me as you CEO.
*(Percieved) importance.
I beg to differ, I'm a corporate slave on a 13" laptop
It has been a while, so maybe I'm wrong, but this is technically an inverse correlation, right?
What if you prefer both ends of the scale? I'll take as many monitors as HR will allow, but I will also kidnap a microsoft surface from the ewaste pile as it is so damn handy when you need to go to a location to fix things that dont have a spot to set a laptop.
Eh, as a dev I prefer just notebook screen over multiple screens
Every time the CEO walks by he thinks “that guy has upper management written all over him”.
Same, I'm also a dev who prefers working off a notebook screen. This fact boggles the minds of my coworkers, especially my boss who seems mortally offended that I only work on one screen.
I guess that means I've broken the social norms of a corporate slave?
It’s okay to have a wrong opinion.
(Don’t take this seriously)
I feel it. I excitedly set up my side monitor in portrait mode for coding ages ago, but turns out I barely ever use it. Instead, I just use it for Discord or random youtube videos playing on the side while I do all my work on the main monitor...
I have 3 monitors… (._.)
A bit higher up is an old-school dial phone. And even higher is a dial phone without the actual dial
Boss needs to get a hold of Plaza 1234 right away.
I was thinking more of a red phone kind of hotline, but this is even better LMAO
And, at the top, they just talk to people, like a mafia don.
Nah, above him is the guy who doesn't even talk, just makes graffiti that puts the right messages directly into people's subconsciousness.
And at the very top there's a guy who returned to monke and only does primal grunts
Ya. The CEO has a person that has a phone and a laptop.
I have three monitors. FUCK.
I have eight. 🤡
Ok I just wana know your hardware setup. Not really the monitors but what you are doing for video output. Assuming either specialized cards with alot of dvi outputs(mini dvi?) or multiple gpus or even just dvi dasiychain?
I'm counting laptop screens as 1 and externals as 1.
3 laptops all with secondary monitors and two surface devices attached to my wall.
the surfaces are displaying system monitoring and portfolio details
laptop a is for job a
laptop b is for job b
laptop c is personal
Its almost as if the more real work you do, the less you matter.
I wonder what would happen if the higher up in a company you get, the less you got payed. I'd imagine more actual work would be accomplished.
Importance, or lack of work contribution? Smaller screen = works less.
It's the same thing. The workers work, management just makes sure the workers work.
Importance as in payment, probably
Hi, it's me. Two Monitor Man.
I'm ultrawide....
And nobody would have known if you never said anything.
This is true up until a point, and then the pattern starts to reverse. Like, the receptionist isn't going to get 2 monitors. They're likely to get one monitor and a very old desktop, or an old laptop.
Edit: Also an intern / co-op student / work experience student, etc. is probably as low as you can go on the totem pole of office work. I bet in many cases they're not even assigned a permanent office / cubicle since they're expected to shadow / be mentored by a variety of people. As a result, they probably get a second-hand, used laptop.
And, if the company has retail sales, techs who do installations, etc. they're often very low on the totem pole, and they're often not getting a computer at all. Maybe in some cases they'd get a "work phone", so they'd have the same kind of equipment as the CEO, but effectively be at the opposite end of the pole from them.
And sometimes you have techbro CEO who has like a video wall for no particularly good reason.
Sometimes, rich people like to cosplay being poor and unimportant.
There are exceptions. My ex CEO and his nepo kids demanded ultrawides so they could more efficiently watch Fox News and get scammed by horny MILFS in their area that want to hook up NOW.
What bout monitor + lappy or biblically accurate computers
When you have three monitors followed by two floating monitors above those on arms. A laptop on the side table neck to you. Your phone right below your keyboard and the tablet on top of the laptops keyboard.
You have reached peak screenage.
Value is not the same as importance
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