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0 pointsjimbob453y ago0 comments

If it's really that much of a problem, most companies will let you bring your own. Everyone at my last place did that with no issue.

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It's been the norm for decades that companies provide workers with the tools they need to do their job. And good companies provide good tools.

If you're bringing in your own means of production, what is the company for?

My mouse and keyboard together are less than $75. A Visual Studio Pro license is ~$1600. I think I'm still coming out ahead.

treis3y ago

>It's been the norm for decades that companies provide workers with the tools they need to do their job

I don't think that's true. Trades usually have their own equipment. At least for the small stuff on the order of keyboards and mice.

If your laptop is the means of production, just quit your job and work for yourself, you'll make loads more money.

Either that's true (sometimes it is!), and you should do it, or it's false, and the company is providing something after all.

Unless it's Evil Corp, where the USB ports are epoxy'd, and/or software protects against anything "non-standard" being plugged in :-/

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