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[-] ijhoo@lemmy.ml 111 points 2 years ago

HP: you are not going to get fired. You will quit.

[-] thejevans@lemmy.ml 35 points 2 years ago

glances over at HP laptop I requested a replacement for 6 months ago because it overheats if I have a video call on and a spreadsheet open

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 years ago

My HP is genuinely a creepy laptop. In the BIOS is a an "HP remote setting" as well as 3 other remote modes all at the bios level asking to join my wifi, again, at the BIOS level.

I work from my home laptop. I have a small offline private network between my work laptop and home laptop that I send ansible jobs to (since the work laptop is a powerful machine), but that work laptop does not touch the internet.

[-] allywilson@lemmy.ml 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Well, let's see...my work laptop experience (so far).

  • Lenovo: Worked there for 14 years
  • HP: Worked there for 6 months
  • Apple: Worked there for 6 months
  • HP: Worked there for 2.5 years
  • Apple: Worked there for a year
  • Dell: Worked there for 2.5 years--
[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 years ago

Alternatively, your laptop will spontaneously combust firing you from life.

I seriously don't understand how that fucking company is still in business.

[-] crazyminner@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago
[-] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 50 points 2 years ago

Panasonic Toughbook: you accidentally applied to a job on an oil rig.

[-] Rooskie91@discuss.online 25 points 2 years ago

Haha I was going to say you're about to get shot in a foreign country.

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 years ago

Network Operations Field Tech. They climb the ladders and debug the cameras. Absolutely toughbook.

[-] Damage@feddit.it 3 points 2 years ago

Siemens Field PG: you make a lot of money

[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 32 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Honestly good litmus test, if you got a Thinkpad that means somebody seems to listen to IT on what to buy which does bode sort of well for a tech job

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 22 points 2 years ago

Looks depressingly at the shiny new ThinkPad my work got me to replace my old ThinkPad... I'd get so much fucking severance if these fucks ever laid me off - is it really never going to happen?

[-] django@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 2 years ago

I requested a thinkpad and installed arch linux on it. How safe is my job?

[-] Lussy@hexbear.net 27 points 2 years ago

Answer: how safe is the job from you?

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 years ago

If you try to give notice they'll kidnap you and you'll spend the next three decades of your life singlehandedly keeping the server running from a secure location somewhere in the Poconos.

[-] st0v@lemmy.zip 19 points 2 years ago

ThinkPads for 24 years, same.company. last one had a terrible battery, After a few months, I couldn't take it anymore and complained about the battery life.

... now I have a Dell. Maybe that was my first strike used up.

[-] r00ty@kbin.life 14 points 2 years ago

I've been using thinkpads as a work laptop since they were branded IBM Thinkpad. So, I have nothing further to comment.

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 years ago

Guess I can stop worrying about job security for the forseeable future

[-] Lussy@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago

Damn, the Dell one is accurate for me.

[-] BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 2 years ago

Looking back... that was right, hmm, 7 out of 8 times. The miss was a very chill place that gave out Dells, but I lost my job because the funding round didn't come in.

[-] propter_hog@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago

Razor: if your house burns down because of the inevitable lithium fire it will cause, you're on your own

[-] freddyforgetti@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 2 years ago

So far flip the dell and Lenovo around and it’s accurate for me

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