People Twitter

I'm in a weird unicorn org where we were issued MacBooks, but some of the people on my team have been there >20 years. The broader org issues Thinkpads, my dept picked MacBooks because apparently that's what developers use and we didn't want to deal with corporate's locked-down images.

I've been there about 4 years now, which is almost as long as my dept has existed (we started w/ a contractor group for 1-2 years before I got hired on).

I hate macOS, but I really like the dept. We'll see what happens.

My company is using Lenovo, and a bunch of my colleagues were already working there 20+ years ago, now I've got a permanent contract too... I think it might check out.

Wait... but my manager has been at his job for 18 years and we use.... oh god, Lenovos. 😱

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.

An acer: your boss is gonna try and f*ck you

My company switched from Lenovo to Toshiba... what does that mean?

Now we're switching to Dell

My company just switched from Lenovo to Dell and gets rid of 20% of the workforce

You guys are getting tech jobs?

So what if all the desks are set up with thin or zero clients.

Joke's on you, I have a trackpoint on my Dell Latitude

HP laptop: your company has no idea what it's doing for it's entire technology department

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.

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.

What about a Microsoft Surface?

Panasonic Toughbook: You're gone get wet and dirty.

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.

I was able to choose my own Lenovo. Twice. 14+ years at the same place.

Siemens PG: forget about making a resume ever again.

What if it is an IBM ThinkPad.