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Imagine getting a new job. You come into the office on the first day. Instead of handing you a laptop, they just give you a chair in the break room. You'll be working off a linux distro that's been installed into the door of a smart fridge.

My company is using Lenovo, and a bunch of my colleagues were already working there 20+ years ago, now I've got a permanent contract too... I think it might check out.

HP laptop: your company has no idea what it's doing for it's entire technology department

I'm in a weird unicorn org where we were issued MacBooks, but some of the people on my team have been there >20 years. The broader org issues Thinkpads, my dept picked MacBooks because apparently that's what developers use and we didn't want to deal with corporate's locked-down images.

I've been there about 4 years now, which is almost as long as my dept has existed (we started w/ a contractor group for 1-2 years before I got hired on).

I hate macOS, but I really like the dept. We'll see what happens.

HP laptop: please remember to log out of ~~your~~ the laptop in case someone else needs to use it.

Edit: Management took offence at the language of the previous memo.

Wait... but my manager has been at his job for 18 years and we use.... oh god, Lenovos. 😱

My last tech job gave me a Microsoft Surface, which possibly explains why I was hired with the promise that things would be really busy, barely did anything for a year, and then got let go because there just wasn't enough work to justify retaining my position.

Siemens PG: forget about making a resume ever again.

Panasonic Toughbook: You're gone get wet and dirty.

Lenovo replaced with Dell when the startup I work at was purchased by a multinational a year and a half ago. They’re closing our office down and moving operations out of state in June.

You guys are getting tech jobs?

I was able to choose my own Lenovo. Twice. 14+ years at the same place.

An acer: your boss is gonna try and f*ck you

Chromebook?

Can confirm. Currently on year eight, always with Lenovo.

So what if all the desks are set up with thin or zero clients.

Used to have a ThinkPad decades back. Still remember Howard comfortable the typing was.

My company switched from Lenovo to Toshiba... what does that mean?

Now we're switching to Dell

What if it is an IBM ThinkPad.

Union.

HP but it switches with Dell every 5 years.

My peers have been there 20+ years. No one's dumb enough to get fired. I only got this job because someone retired.

The people are awesome. I hope to God I can work here another decade.

Sadly Thinkpads no longer are what they used to be. I got the X1 Extreme Gen 5 couple of years back and have had all kinds of problems with it. Blue screens, problem with fans sometimes getting stuck at 100%, constant problems connecting to the dock, not to mention bad battery life... My coworker had to get a warranty replacement when the usb-c port stopped working without any apparent reason only after a month of use. And other coworkers with newer models are also reporting issues.