Screen size & your importance
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What if you prefer both ends of the scale? I'll take as many monitors as HR will allow, but I will also kidnap a microsoft surface from the ewaste pile as it is so damn handy when you need to go to a location to fix things that dont have a spot to set a laptop.
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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.
Just had a conversation with someone on this last weekend. They’re what I call someone dependent on corporate daycare. They need to be working or they lack self value. Their boss is an ass, hardly works and this guy thinks he’s slacking at 12 hours a day (exaggerated only a little).
What are you doing that is so important? Is it saving someone’s life? Life changing cancer drugs? No no, it’s a PowerPoint that shows the progress on the projects of equally less important tasks that is only making your boss look good.
And the fucker still thinks he’s not WORKING HARD ENOUGH!!
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And sometimes you have techbro CEO who has like a video wall for no particularly good reason.
Sometimes, rich people like to cosplay being poor and unimportant.
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Today just got an email to connect with McKinsey about something... My company likes to occasionally piss money away on McKinsey and it always just sucks...
Somebody in your company who used to work for Mckinsey is now in a position to spend money on Mckinsey. If they spend enough over a long period the they will be invited back to become partner.
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Same, I'm also a dev who prefers working off a notebook screen. This fact boggles the minds of my coworkers, especially my boss who seems mortally offended that I only work on one screen.
I guess that means I've broken the social norms of a corporate slave?
wrote last edited by [email protected]It’s okay to have a wrong opinion.
(Don’t take this seriously)
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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.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Because they're trying to make a profit?Budgets aren't free money just because it's private enterprise.
Dude just straight up stole from the company and it's this kind of cope that both lets it happen and shows how hypocritical people are on the topic.
But, on the other hand, fuck the company, steal from them if you can. Just know that is theft from the stock owners and is therefore cool.
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That's mostly because the cost of a TV was far greater than it is today. So it took a lot more money to buy a larger TV. TVs today are dirt cheap compared to 50 years ago.
Yeah, that explains more big screens for lower income, it doesn't explain so much why higher income folks would eschew the big screens.
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Because they're trying to make a profit?Budgets aren't free money just because it's private enterprise.
Dude just straight up stole from the company and it's this kind of cope that both lets it happen and shows how hypocritical people are on the topic.
But, on the other hand, fuck the company, steal from them if you can. Just know that is theft from the stock owners and is therefore cool.
They straight up said it was all expenses paid so it's not stealing.
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Eh, as a dev I prefer just notebook screen over multiple screens
Every time the CEO walks by he thinks “that guy has upper management written all over him”.
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A bit higher up is an old-school dial phone. And even higher is a dial phone without the actual dial
Ya. The CEO has a person that has a phone and a laptop.
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Ok I just wana know your hardware setup. Not really the monitors but what you are doing for video output. Assuming either specialized cards with alot of dvi outputs(mini dvi?) or multiple gpus or even just dvi dasiychain?
wrote last edited by [email protected]I'm counting laptop screens as 1 and externals as 1.
3 laptops all with secondary monitors
and two surface devices attached to my wall.the surfaces are displaying system monitoring and portfolio details
laptop a is for job a
laptop b is for job b
laptop c is personal
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Boss needs to get a hold of Plaza 1234 right away.
I was thinking more of a red phone kind of hotline, but this is even better LMAO
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Yeah, that explains more big screens for lower income, it doesn't explain so much why higher income folks would eschew the big screens.
wrote last edited by [email protected]It does if tech changes fast.
First, many rich people are older people.
Regardless of age, rich people bought expensive TVs when even the best ones were smaller. They still work great and have not been replaced.
Also, a TV is not as important to rich people. If they want to watch the game, they get tickets. The old screen is good enough. And a smaller screen probably fits nicer into their decor. In a poor household, the TV is the centrepiece and even if it is ugly, it looks better than the rest of the room.
Finally, rich people may be busier. I do not want this comment to be misunderstood but the reality is that television is just not as central to their lives.
Mostly though, I just think older TVs are smaller.
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And, at the top, they just talk to people, like a mafia don.
Nah, above him is the guy who doesn't even talk, just makes graffiti that puts the right messages directly into people's subconsciousness.
And at the very top there's a guy who returned to monke and only does primal grunts
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Just had a conversation with someone on this last weekend. They’re what I call someone dependent on corporate daycare. They need to be working or they lack self value. Their boss is an ass, hardly works and this guy thinks he’s slacking at 12 hours a day (exaggerated only a little).
What are you doing that is so important? Is it saving someone’s life? Life changing cancer drugs? No no, it’s a PowerPoint that shows the progress on the projects of equally less important tasks that is only making your boss look good.
And the fucker still thinks he’s not WORKING HARD ENOUGH!!
Yeah it is truly sad. I wish with all my heart that I could have one of those government jobs where I would do the minimum and still get paid well, but sadly, I am stuck in the corporate world.
Thankfully, I just give them my 1% and do the Barr minimum to get the annual increments...but fuck I just hate wasting 8 hours of my life a day doing worthless computer shit. It pays the bills though.
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Forget using his phone screen, all an important CEO needs is wireless earbuds
Heh, I bet if you're the CEO of a megacorp, you might not even carry your own electronics. You just have a gaggle of assistants around you who you bark orders at, and then they use their electronics to do something.
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Same, I'm also a dev who prefers working off a notebook screen. This fact boggles the minds of my coworkers, especially my boss who seems mortally offended that I only work on one screen.
I guess that means I've broken the social norms of a corporate slave?
wrote last edited by [email protected]I feel it. I excitedly set up my side monitor in portrait mode for coding ages ago, but turns out I barely ever use it. Instead, I just use it for Discord or random youtube videos playing on the side while I do all my work on the main monitor...
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It's funny when a big exec leaves and other execs are rushing to reassure us they are to to the challenge of dealing with such a key person departing....
We do not care at all. We have zero confidence in any of them and do not care about any of them
We didn't have a CEO for half a year... What changed? Nothing..
Then we got a new CEO.. His new policies caused loss of revenue so we had to fire 50 people..
Thank god for that save
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I beg to differ, I'm a corporate slave on a 13" laptop
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We didn't have a CEO for half a year... What changed? Nothing..
Then we got a new CEO.. His new policies caused loss of revenue so we had to fire 50 people..
Thank god for that save
Oh we were similarly "rudderless" when a major executive left.
Adding to the amusement of the constant panic of missing leadership, was when someone asked about simply promoting one of the interim executives to full time and just getting on with it. This was in a town hall with the CEO and the interim executive in question and in front of everyone the CEO said simply that the interim executive wasn't competent enough to do the job.
