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My office computer is not mine: it is company's ownership. So I just don't give a flock, and even if I have a support/administration background I don't hesitate to call for support and wash my hands of it.
We have old, cheap and painfully slow computers, less licenses than software and many other issues and we all are invariably ignored. Then may them eat their own medicine.
I have reaped some to-be-shipped-but-will-never-be (for reliability issues) PCs to increase my disk space (which was a meager 80GB) and RAM (I had 1 GB. With VS2008 it is Hell. Now I have 2 whole GB!). Some day I'll switch entirely to the other PC which has a Pentium G, whuile I'm stuck with a Pentium E.
Yes, I know we are in 2015.
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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It sounds like you are stuck with a typewriter in the dark ages. I would refuse to work with something that old, for productivity reasons. 
My plan is to live forever ... so far so good
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I would do that too but then I'd lose my job - the company is loyal to its employees but can't even remotely understand the word "investment".
We deploy entirely new machines without prototypes first "becuse they cost" (way less than 3 months to the customer site fixing mechanical/electrical/software design flaws, but who cares?).
A company where each expense over 30 € must pass through the CEO herself, and has more than 1000 employees... You understand the problem.
At least they hire people instead of using temps and they provide an average wage, but noever do more than the bare legal minimum (which is better than the other Italian companies, that normally circumvent/break the law).
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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I'll bet your customers love your software, because it runs extremely fast on their machines (most of which are probably the same specs as yours).
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The software actually runs fast, it is all native code especially crafted for speed since it runs on almost real time systems - we inspect and decide wether they are contaminated or not up to 25 products/second, and the limit is mainly physical.
Also the pc shipped to customers are way faster than ours, now we're shipping i5 for example. Their cost is sinked in the machinery price so it is not a problem. But us employees... we're slaves. Treated at the bare decency minimum but slaves.
The service employees often have to travel thousands of kilometers and stay abroad for weeks, nevertheless there is no such thing as a company Credit/Debit card - the emplyees must anticipate the expenses from their own accounts and then the company decides what to refund and what not (a colleague of mine got appendicitis when he was in Australia and the company didn't refund 50€ of bandages, even if he was ill-on-job).
Also several colleagues report that at the end of the year they are on 2-300 € short each...
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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You're getting out of bed every day to be treated like that?
Being unemployed and broke is preferable, and it leaves you free to pursue better options.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Being unemployed and broke is preferable
No, not really. Also there are very few better offers in Italy, mostly temporary jobs that last 6 months without health care or any right whatsoever. I'm building a family, I can't afford that.
Also my division is one of the best treated beause we bring in more than half the yearly revenue (despite being only 2% of the work force) and during working hours we are treated well - in other division it is forbidden to move from the desk and a formal reprimand has been issued to a colleague who went 4 times at the toilet in a morning. Now, THAT's terrible, and I'd have brought up a judiciary hell upon the company if it happened to me.
Sadly, this is one of the best places here...
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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I can understand your pain! The company I work in has similar conditions regarding the refund for the expenses incurred by the employee on official trips. A few of mu colleagues have narrated their experiences.
Sad.. 
.:>GSN<:.
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den2k88 wrote: PC which has a Pentium G
Holy hell!!
Jeremy Falcon
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My plan for the end of the year is to grab a second PC of the class that is shipped now, an i5, as a "test machine". The drawback is that in case of shortage of PCs in the storage I'll have a working day to reset the PC with the original components and return it to the storage department, but I'm growing frustrated day by day with my current dinosaur.
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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I care a lot. After all, we have to spent some time together.
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So, you basically feed it with top quality electrical current ? You gently brush its USB ports ? You give it presents (More RAM) ?
You apologize when you throw your mouse at it ? You ... whisper to it him exciting Octo-core stories late at night ?
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Basically, yes. 
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Office computer -> Do not touch!
Home computer -> Don't you even dare think about touching it!
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I am a old school guy: "Good tools are half of the work." So I pamper my IT as much as I can 
PS: bought me (private) the Nexus 6 and yesterday my boss offered a new 27-iMac (as part of a raise) 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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My path through life is littered with the bloody corpses of those who dared touch ANY of my computers. 
So be careful - you're not that far away.
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He who touches my computer must be willing to lose a limb 
My plan is to live forever ... so far so good
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My work computer?
People can do what they like with the keyboard and mouse, but if they touch the monitor with their dirty, smelly, greasy fingers, they'll lose an arm.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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My work computer is the property of the company; they can do what they like with it.
I doubt "they" know that I used Disk Management to create my own partition for my work.
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I have never asked my company to pay for anything that I might want to take with me. My current laptop (almost 6 yo) and desktop (5+ yo) systems are well cared for and still get the job done quite well. I may look at something new when Win9X is released!
That said, when my laptop was new, the (now) wife liked to use it for browsing arsebook, email, playing games, etc..After the third time, I took her shopping for an iPad. It's been quite peaceful since then. Also since then, she upgraded to the iPad2(I think) and I got the old one. It makes a decent enough 'jukebox' for traveling.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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I've disconnected my home alarm system and resigned from the Neighborhood Watch.
I've got two Pakistani flags raised in the front yard, one at each corner, and the black flag of ISIS in the center.
The local police, sheriff, FBI, CIA, NSA, Homeland Security, Secret Service and other agencies are all watching the house 24/7.
I've never felt safer and I’m saving $49.95 a month!
Will Rogers never met me.
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It's a pity we can't do that in South Africa. I'm already paying for 2 security companies, but still get hit quite often.
My plan is to live forever ... so far so good
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Actually quite easy.
Raise the 'Vierkleur' in one corner and 'the old orange white and blue' in the other corner. Put a statue of Madiba up and dress it with EFF colours and you are set. The police, supporters and 'die valke' would watch your house 24 Hours a day 7 days a week in shifts! 
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Never thought of it that way. Do you think they still print AWB flags? That used to help as well.
My plan is to live forever ... so far so good
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