Timeline for How do I complain about having sub-standard laptop compared to more junior employees?
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| Aug 14, 2018 at 20:28 | comment | added | TomTom | Not a good attitude if you want to be on top. Not a status symbol? Maybe, like your dress, or your car. Want a career - it is totally a status symbol. Politics plays on so many levels subconscious it is not funny. | |
| Aug 14, 2018 at 15:08 | comment | added | imdannyboy909 | @Dan I think that you are both making the same point. It needs to be "needs to be good enough" probably means more productive/life easier but a company can only spend so much on laptops. This isn't just if they can run a specific program but also how well. When a computer is slowing down enough to make an issue with productivity then that is usually when a company will either replace or upgrade your computer. | |
| Aug 14, 2018 at 14:43 | comment | added | Bill Leeper | My last company always gave every new employee a brand new top of the line laptop. It was yours to use for 3 years when the warranty ran out you got a new one. So the new employees ALWAYS had the new equipment really. This case seems rather egregious so ask, you are certainly past the point where any accounting method will have obsoleted the machine. | |
| Aug 14, 2018 at 13:13 | comment | added | Dan | "Your laptop needs to be good enough to do your assigned work with it" - I think this is subjective because you can argue it in many ways that it is "functional" for the designed task. However, the question is if the newer laptops make life easier and more productive? | |
| Aug 14, 2018 at 10:59 | comment | added | alroc | @RedGrittyBrick I want to agree with you, but after many years of observing laptops and phones while sitting in conference rooms, and seeing hardware get deployed to people at various levels, there is definitely a status symbol thing going on even at decently-run companies. | |
| Aug 14, 2018 at 10:42 | comment | added | RedGrittyBrick | This. Office equipment is a tool not a status-symbol (or should be, in a well-run business) | |
| Aug 14, 2018 at 1:52 | history | answered | Hilmar | CC BY-SA 4.0 |