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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RealAlHazred" data-source="post: 9661750" data-attributes="member: 25818">After being let go from the Data Center team a few years ago, I was immediately rehired by the Lab team from the same company. It's a great fit for me, as in my decades in IT I've never been able to specialize in any one thing in IT -- most of that time I worked for a terrible boss, who would lie to the customers about my abilities to get the contract and then send me in with no info on what he told them I was an expert in. I ended up picking bits and pieces of a lot of the things, which is exactly what you need when there's just two dudes in a Lab supporting a Fortune 100 company.Anyway, when I got in, I noticed we had a bunch of laptops in the Lab. Like, a dozen, stacked on a shelf in one of the cabinets. Come to find out they're for one of the project teams we support, and are used for testing. I couldn't find any documentation on how many there were supposed to be, or who owned what. So I made a spreadsheet with all the serial numbers and started digging into whatever documentation I could find. Three of them were in the system as "Lost". All of them are high-end, expensive laptops with the corporate image installed; heck one of them's a high-end MacBook, and I know how expensive those are.Meanwhile, I've been working for the company for five years, and am still using a cheap laptop from the subcontractor of a subcontractor of a subcontractor who I actually work for. It's so far distant from the corporate network that I have to jump through two hoops just to log in (Windows App to get to a virtual desktop, and then RDP into the Lab).They can get twelve high-end laptops that get used twice a year to test wifi rollouts, and I can't get a single good laptop that I would use literally every day...</blockquote>

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