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[–] ijhoo@lemmy.ml 99 points 7 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] thejevans@lemmy.ml 28 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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 9 points 7 months 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 20 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months 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 7 points 7 months 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 2 points 7 months ago
[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 50 points 7 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] Rooskie91@discuss.online 25 points 7 months ago

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

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 7 points 7 months ago

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

[–] Damage@feddit.it 3 points 7 months ago

Siemens Field PG: you make a lot of money

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 22 points 7 months 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?

[–] st0v@lemmy.zip 17 points 7 months 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 7 months ago

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

[–] django@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 18 points 7 months 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.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 11 points 7 months ago

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

[–] BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 7 months 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.

[–] freddyforgetti@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 7 months ago

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