Screen size & your importance
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If all the two-monitor people get up and walk out, the company stops.
You can lose any other single rung there and still push on.
wrote last edited by [email protected]My spouse and I work for a contractor that is having trouble hiring experienced people like us, so they have been hiring fresh grads outta school. There is a limited pool of experience here, so when management throws a fit one of us is overloaded or gets sick and can’t meet the budget or deadline, it ends with nothing because they can’t afford to lose us. We work on the power grid and it’s a relatively small pool of engineers doing the work we do.
Also, I’m rocking two work laptops with a home setup of 4 monitors and an office setup of 3, but still feel pretty important! -
It's only about how important you're to shareholders. At 6 monitors, you'll become the ever important cyber security expert, who will get replaced by AI, except said AI will do a job so bad it'll sink the company.
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It saddens me the fact that there are people out there wanting to do more work.
The game is rigged. Do nothing and get paid.
Have you been watching me at work?
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Value is not the same as importance
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I need a standalone watch to rule them all.
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When I discovered it can be arranged in a grid, it made VDs so much more useful.
Cause a line of the same amount of VDs (9)... Ugh, not fun haha
Even though you can map each to a shortcut, it's still tougher to use than a grid with directional shortcuts!
How do you have your shortcuts set up for this? And if you don't mind me asking, what desktop environment / window manager are you using?
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Absolutely no corruption in private industry tho the invisible hand takes care of it
The waste and corruption in private industry is mind bogglingly huge compared to the public sector.
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The job of people around the CEO is primarily to make decisions. All this huge chain of managers is needed only to aggregate information so that the CEO can make an informed decision. This is how many large companies operate. I would even say that there is a direct correlation between the size of the campaign and the number of monitors at the bottom.
The flip side of sitting behind a huge monitor is that you won't stay outside with a huge number of your employees if you make the wrong decision. It's just a different job.
there is a direct correlation between the size of the campaign and the number of monitors at the bottom.
From my limited experience, it's the size/amount of monitors at the top that correlates with company size, not at the bottom. At my 5-person software company, almost everyone works with multiple screens, except one of the three founders who still works mainly on a laptop display at least
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My spouse and I work for a contractor that is having trouble hiring experienced people like us, so they have been hiring fresh grads outta school. There is a limited pool of experience here, so when management throws a fit one of us is overloaded or gets sick and can’t meet the budget or deadline, it ends with nothing because they can’t afford to lose us. We work on the power grid and it’s a relatively small pool of engineers doing the work we do.
Also, I’m rocking two work laptops with a home setup of 4 monitors and an office setup of 3, but still feel pretty important!You should start poaching the gaming industry, it's shedding developers like mad. Most of them are familiar with several stacks so pickup up new stuff is nbd.
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I have three monitors. FUCK.
They got you taking care of the cockroach problem in the basement?
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This is true up until a point, and then the pattern starts to reverse. Like, the receptionist isn't going to get 2 monitors. They're likely to get one monitor and a very old desktop, or an old laptop.
Edit: Also an intern / co-op student / work experience student, etc. is probably as low as you can go on the totem pole of office work. I bet in many cases they're not even assigned a permanent office / cubicle since they're expected to shadow / be mentored by a variety of people. As a result, they probably get a second-hand, used laptop.
And, if the company has retail sales, techs who do installations, etc. they're often very low on the totem pole, and they're often not getting a computer at all. Maybe in some cases they'd get a "work phone", so they'd have the same kind of equipment as the CEO, but effectively be at the opposite end of the pole from them.
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I have three monitors. FUCK.
I bring a portable screen from home, bringing me to a total of 4 with the laptop screen.
But I just like lots of monitors
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There was a study years ago about American TV ownership. Size of television inversely correlates with income.
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They got you taking care of the cockroach problem in the basement?
And they took his stapler
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I have eight.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Most monitors has got to be the security guard's CCTV, so it does track!
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There was a study years ago about American TV ownership. Size of television inversely correlates with income.
Well yeah rich people don't have to settle for sitting around the house all day. They have boats and racecars and planes to play with
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Absolutely no corruption in private industry tho the invisible hand takes care of it
When I think of corporate corruption, I think of cooking the books, lobbying the government, bribing, or even straight up harassment and assassination. But in this case, I don't think it's corruption. If the company has enough cash for extra perks, why the hell not.
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True for the phone and tablet, but for any sort of computer that is not true
I work on a laptop with virtual desktops and I am much more productive that way than with a big screen... Or two big screens.
Everything is in the center of my field of view, I know which VD of my 3x3 grid holds what. It's much more efficient for me than bigger screens could ever be. And that is not for lack of trying!
It just depends on the person.
I'll often have documentation on another monitor, so I can full-screen my code and still reference the documentation without switching windows.
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Uh-oh. I have three monitors, and one of them is a 43" 4k TV.
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This is true up until a point, and then the pattern starts to reverse. Like, the receptionist isn't going to get 2 monitors. They're likely to get one monitor and a very old desktop, or an old laptop.
Edit: Also an intern / co-op student / work experience student, etc. is probably as low as you can go on the totem pole of office work. I bet in many cases they're not even assigned a permanent office / cubicle since they're expected to shadow / be mentored by a variety of people. As a result, they probably get a second-hand, used laptop.
And, if the company has retail sales, techs who do installations, etc. they're often very low on the totem pole, and they're often not getting a computer at all. Maybe in some cases they'd get a "work phone", so they'd have the same kind of equipment as the CEO, but effectively be at the opposite end of the pole from them.
It's like, I have a 13" laptop, a 15" inch one, and two monitors at my desk with a dock... But so the my director... Actually, he doesn't have the 13" one! Am I actually the director?
