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@Grumm Herman Miller Embody $1500 CDN chairs I pickup for $400 from a used office warehouse 😎
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@TeachMeCode I mean it is a Herman Miller though…
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@BixelPitch Well, the devs ARE treated better than everyone else where I work. It is not a rumor, it is a fact. Also, my boss said despite being an OEM we are essentially a "software" company. Because just about every version of our equipment is customized to customer specs via software.
I should note that we have mechanical, design, and electrical engineers on staff who build the test of the product. -
@NoToJavaScript Well they’re not complaining about my keyboard because “how do you know what button does what if there are no labels?”.
Because the “f” and “u” keys don’t change location that’s why -
@fiftyhz if that extended to keyboards I’d quit. I’ll drop 5 C notes on a UHK (https://uhk.io)if I want to.
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@xMadxHatterx ErgodoxEZ for me thanks
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What @Root said.
But keeping passing hatred towards managers as justice aside, I see the merit in what @fiftyhz said about no office equipment policy. If there are $400k/year CTO and $20k/year PHP developer working in the same shitty open space, that policy could avoid at least some conflicts, and if so, it’s already okay, though akin to treating cancer with paracetamol. If you have this kind of conflicts, your company has waaay more severe problems than just some employee bringing their own chair that offends people.
*While I was working from home this occurred*
New Accountant: How come Dev gets the nicest chair in the office?
IT: He brings his own chair because he doesn’t like the ones we have here.
New Accountant: How come I don’t get a nice chair?
IT: If you want a nicer chair either ask your department manager to buy one or if that doesn’t work you’re welcome to bring in your own
New Accountant: I shouldn’t have to bring in my chair from home! I want a nice chair like Dev has but I don’t want to spend the money to buy one as nice as his and my department manager said we don’t have the budget to buy one either!
IT: He buys them from a used office warehouse for pretty cheap actually, cheaper than what the company pays annually to rent these chairs from what I’ve heard. He has 3 more at home. You should ask him where he gets them from.
New Accountant: He should give me his chair! He mostly works remote anyway!
*This resulted in my being asked to come into the office to remove my chair because it was “upsetting people” in the office*
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