How to Know that You Have a Good Job

"KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs" (kusabisensei) 07/17/2017 at 21:20 • Filed to: None

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Walk in, sit down at desk with corporate laptop, and within 180 seconds, bossman walks up and sets new Apple laptop box on your desk and walks away. Coworker immediately says “We don’t do corporate nonsense here, so this is your non-corporate laptop. Here’s the password to connect to the non-corporate hotspot so you can get out to the Internet.”

Honeybunchesofgoats > KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs 07/17/2017 at 21:22

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KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs > Honeybunchesofgoats 07/17/2017 at 21:26

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The only trap that exists is corporate IT policy. It was made by someone with a root complex and so you cannot do anything useful, besides read email.

Oh, and you can ONLY read email on your assigned laptop and ONLY when connected to the corporate network.

The MacBook Pro? I have root on that, so bwahahahaha

Slant6 > KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs 07/17/2017 at 21:29

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So is a corporate laptop a windows machine?

TheHondaBro > KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs 07/17/2017 at 21:30

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It’s a MacBook Pro? I’m sure it’ll be good... when it’s working.

KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs > Slant6 07/17/2017 at 21:38

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Dell Latitude E6440. It’s old and not for sale anymore. We had those are my previous job and they were crap.

And Windows 7 Professional N. With Office 2007. I mean, really.

KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs > TheHondaBro 07/17/2017 at 21:39

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So long as I just use the terminal all the time. And the Dell will work even less than the Mac.

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > TheHondaBro 07/17/2017 at 21:48

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I’ve had only one problem with my MBA in 4 years and that’s the left shift not working.

TheHondaBro > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap 07/17/2017 at 21:50

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The new MBPs have been lemons.

NJAnon > KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs 07/17/2017 at 22:00

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They must have a lot of stuff tied down there. I wonder what past coworkers did to make IT to lock down everything to the Nth degree, :P

MrDakka > KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs 07/17/2017 at 22:16

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If I was assigned a laptop at my current place of employment, it would mean that I would have to take work home to finish before the next day.

KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs > NJAnon 07/17/2017 at 22:19

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This could go back years. This is a big multinational corp. So probably it was more “We have to be absolutely certain how everything is done” moreso than “We have to stop those pesky users”

KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs > MrDakka 07/17/2017 at 22:19

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I still have a great excuse: No one gave me my Amazon AWS credentials...yet.