[cupcakesupreme]

I once took a contract for a FAANG that had me on the shittiest piece of DELL Optiplex Dell had ever plexed. You could not have sold it for negative dollars. It took me easily 2x longer to do everything I needed to do. The contract paid out about $150,000, so the high-end graphics lappytop I needed that would have cost them $3,000 cost them $75,000 instead. This does not account for my lost sanity.

Fury. Rage. Tempest. The sound of my soul dying. Where's the fucking grenade?

Forgive me for being so complicit. $100/hr was a lot of money then.

[beeboop]

I had a similar situation when working for Amazon as a non-Amazon employee. Super shitty laptop. My theory is that they want shitty laptops because it dissuades people from keeping them, and hypothetically keeping sensitive information on them. They were also treated rather disposable in my experience too.

[BizarroLand]

I got a crap PC that literally exploded 2 weeks after I started working for a college in the IT dept.

I just brought my old PC and joined it to the domain. No one had a problem with it for some reason. (It was the wild west out there)

[cupcakesupreme]

Ha ha. I think you found the right forum.

Did that at MSFT once. They wouldn't buy me an Adobo Photochopz license, so I borrowed one from alt.binaries.blah.blah. My co-worker would joke blackmail me once a fortnight: If you don't bring a grande hazelnut latte with extra nutmeg from that Starbucks 'meeting' you are goin' to, ugh hmm!, I know!, imma tell x you got that pirate photochopz on your usb thingy and he gonna fire yo ass.

(There was a time when you could talk like this there, long before you had to introduce your pronouns aft your name, when the safest space was the kitchen, where you could arm yourself with 185 °F cup of Farmer Brothers coffeesupersludge.)

(We were in software license compliance, btw.)

[bb88]

$100/hr still is.

[nicoburns]

Wouldn't you normally supply your own equipment for a contract?

[cupcakesupreme]

The manager was a creepy ass creeper who wanted your machine tied to his machine so he could observe you whenever he felt like it. Yes, one of those.

[Krisjohn]

That doesn't sound like it would have slowed down the craptiplex even more at all.