Timeline for Should I use my own device just because my employer doesn't provide one?
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| Nov 6, 2017 at 14:19 | comment | added | Konrad Höffner | @el.pescado: In Germany academia, for example, you can start out with around 1.100 € / month and hardware is more expensive due to import and taxes. | |
| Nov 6, 2017 at 12:16 | comment | added | Jonathon Cowley-Thom | Even if the OP is okay with it, it's unwise. | |
| Oct 26, 2017 at 23:55 | comment | added | Stephan Branczyk | @el.pescado, Ooops, my bad. I know what you meant originally. I just used the wrong pronoun. Here is what I should have said "I agree with the rest of what you said, but assuming an SSD drive to compensate for the low RAM, if the company spends $1,000 for a dedicated Mac, that should be enough." | |
| Oct 26, 2017 at 11:53 | comment | added | el.pescado - нет войне | @StephanBranczyk I didn't mean that he spends - I didn't make that clear. The point I was trying to make was that any employer that spends at least 6 grand on employee salary every month probably could afford buying a Mac once. Cost of buying equipment is negligible compared to developer salary. | |
| Oct 26, 2017 at 11:35 | comment | added | Stephan Branczyk | Konrad, Also add that the other person and yourself store private financial information, health-related data, and potentially embarrassing pictures on that machine that you do not want to give up your privacy to. And that you can not guarantee that you will be able to completely wipe the laptop's drive if something goes wrong, or once the project finishes because you have personal files that you do not want to lose on that machine. | |
| Oct 26, 2017 at 7:22 | comment | added | el.pescado - нет войне | "money doesn't fall from the trees" - where does OP live/work? According to SO Salary Calculator mobile developer with 2 years of experience in somewhere in the middle of US (neither Silicon Valley nor NYC) makes around $74k which makes over $6k a month. Mac mini can be bought for $499 - and you can install Windows on it and use as a "regular" work computer. | |
| Oct 25, 2017 at 19:21 | comment | added | Chris | If they cannot afford the computer for it, then the project isn't profitable. Either they making money on your cost or the management doesn't have any clue what they're doing. I once worked for a company where both was the case, and I'm very happy to not work there anymore. | |
| Oct 25, 2017 at 15:35 | comment | added | alephzero | If the company can get you to provide your own PC for work, that's just the tip of the iceberg. After all, a desk and a chair don't cost as much as a PC, so why don't you buy those as well? Oh, and why don't you pay yourself, next time they think you need to go on a training course for professional development? A sensibly managed company, big or small, would have already banned this sort of thing in your employment contract IMO! FWIW in the company I work for, doing it would be grounds for instant dismissal - and nobody I know has a problem with that policy. | |
| Oct 25, 2017 at 15:27 | comment | added | Daniel | the [... If I don't wish to use my personal device ...] kind of implies that OP may not be that ok with it. | |
| Oct 25, 2017 at 15:23 | history | answered | Konrad Höffner | CC BY-SA 3.0 |