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Re:This is the best "we're hiring" image ever drawn by semanticist on Friday August 20, 2010 @09:23AM (#1620307)

We'd kill for 'business desktop' machines. We have left-over HP tower servers, some of which were customer returns.

But we have TWO MONITORS!!! as the recruiter who got me in here pointed out.

Personally, I bring in my MacBook Pro and hook it up to one of my TWO MONITORS!!! because it's a much better environment than the rubbish tower server they gave me.

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Re:This is the best "we're hiring" image ever drawn by heresy on Friday August 20, 2010 @10:07AM (#1620401)

Well you could kill for the business desktop machines at my prior job, but it would be like killing someone for their socks.

1GB RAM powerhouses with 5400 RPM disks.

I lobbied hard for 6 months, doing research for them, laying out how little it would cost to buy new machines, and an additional monitor for all the developers, going so far as to do benchmarks of our software on my home machine (consumer-level $1200 Core i7) compared to the work cast-offs.

I quit when it was clear they did not care about the concerns of the developers at all, just cared for milking the sole golden goose.

But managers who did little more than PowerPoint, Outlook and surfing the net got budget to upgrade their laptops to specs that outclassed any machine the engineers had, it was pretty depressing.

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Re:This is the best "we're hiring" image ever drawn by oiuytghyuj on Friday August 20, 2010 @11:06AM (#1620571)

Luxury .... We used to have to get up 10mins before we went to sleep, toggle the OS into a turing machine with our teeth and pay SAP for doing it.....

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