[sigwinch28]

For me? No.

I work somewhere with thin clients which log in to one OS, which is an OS I do not develop for. I end up remoting in from that OS to another one. It’s a bit clumsy. On some occasions I’ve been unable to do a thing easily and my manager has been receptive to “I can’t do this thing so I will either have to not do it or find a slower and clumsier way”. It doesn’t always get fixed, but I feel it’s understood.

My employer pays me so while I’m on the clock in the office I will use the OS and software they tell me to (not) use. It’s on them if my productivity is reduced because of informed decisions they make. I get paid whether or not I have to open a ticket and wait because I’m blocked on IT.

Ultimately, my direct line of management is much more important than any OS decision because good management will listen and understand the effects their decisions have and they won’t blame me for the effects of their decisions.

If my managers instruct me to develop containerised Java 6 SOAP microservices to run on Windows Kubernetes clusters in IBM cloud while using a Hannah Montana Linux dev environment over VNC from a SunOS workstation with an AZERTY keyboard and the monitor rotated 180 degrees then I will do it on company time. I’ll tell them what I think of it, though.

[sneak]

Tell me you don’t have meaningful equity without telling me you don’t have meaningful equity.

This feels like peak “I just work here”.

[creer]

A significant part of being an engineer is solving the problem you are asked to solve. No doubt there are lots of other problems. There are frustrations but these are probably not the problem you have been asked to solve.

I feel this is often missing in how people talk about their job these days.

You also don't have to work there, really, if it gets to that.

[burnte]

The vast majority of people have no equity in their employer. That is not a valid requirement for doing your job.

[Xiol32]

The majority of people 'just work here'. Having equity is not the norm.

[sigwinch28]

I do just work there and that’s okay with me.