• seralth@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 hours ago

      When you have three monitors followed by two floating monitors above those on arms. A laptop on the side table neck to you. Your phone right below your keyboard and the tablet on top of the laptops keyboard.

      You have reached peak screenage.

  • merc@sh.itjust.works
    19·
    2 hours ago

    This is true up until a point, and then the pattern starts to reverse. Like, the receptionist isn’t going to get 2 monitors. They’re likely to get one monitor and a very old desktop, or an old laptop.

    Edit: Also an intern / co-op student / work experience student, etc. is probably as low as you can go on the totem pole of office work. I bet in many cases they’re not even assigned a permanent office / cubicle since they’re expected to shadow / be mentored by a variety of people. As a result, they probably get a second-hand, used laptop.

    And, if the company has retail sales, techs who do installations, etc. they’re often very low on the totem pole, and they’re often not getting a computer at all. Maybe in some cases they’d get a “work phone”, so they’d have the same kind of equipment as the CEO, but effectively be at the opposite end of the pole from them.

    • BigPotato@lemmy.world
      2·
      6 hours ago

      It’s like, I have a 13" laptop, a 15" inch one, and two monitors at my desk with a dock… But so the my director… Actually, he doesn’t have the 13" one! Am I actually the director?

      • merc@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        5 hours ago

        Which do you use most often?

        A CEO might have a nice desktop, but is always out playing golf and so mostly uses his phone.

    • twice_hatch@midwest.socialEnglish
      11·
      8 hours ago

      Well yeah rich people don’t have to settle for sitting around the house all day. They have boats and racecars and planes to play with

  • salacious_coaster@infosec.pubEnglish
    27·
    11 hours ago

    There are exceptions. My ex CEO and his nepo kids demanded ultrawides so they could more efficiently watch Fox News and get scammed by horny MILFS in their area that want to hook up NOW.

  • littlebigendian@lemmy.zip
    82·
    16 hours ago

    Its almost as if the more real work you do, the less you matter.

    I wonder what would happen if the higher up in a company you get, the less you got payed. I’d imagine more actual work would be accomplished.

    • nialv7@lemmy.world
      7·
      11 hours ago

      The higher you go the closer you get to the people who actually controls the capital. The CEO can have a personal relationship with the board, people who do actual work are merely a number to the higher-ups.

      • nialv7@lemmy.world
        2·
        11 hours ago

        Agree with you but depends on where someone work. It’s rare but some work are undeniably positive to the society.

      • boonhet@sopuli.xyz
        21·
        13 hours ago

        I wouldn’t be in the field if I didn’t enjoy the work.

        However I’ve positioned myself to make sure no work is ever unpaid, unless it’s for my own future startup idea.

  • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
    7·
    11 hours ago

    It’s only about how important you’re to shareholders. At 6 monitors, you’ll become the ever important cyber security expert, who will get replaced by AI, except said AI will do a job so bad it’ll sink the company.

  • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
    151·
    14 hours ago

    Depends how lucky you are. There is a guy who works in upper management and he has the privilege to order new equipment for his office, which is all expenses paid by the company. He built a gaming computer complete with neon lights and four monitors right in his office.

    “Honey, I will be late from work! I will be back at 3am!”

    teabags scrumballs69 in Call of Duty

    • LousyCornMuffins@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 hours ago

      Nothing like the senior partner at this law firm I consulted at who got conned by his son into getting the a bleeding edge gaming rig for work “because he’d need it for multiple monitors and video calls” so said son could scavenge it from his dad in 3-5 when the business life cycle demanded a new computer. I did not make any friends (as someone with a vested interest in the firm’s success, also the son is an entitled dick who’s never had a job) with the son when I told the partner that a plato like he bought could last him a decade with proper maintenance.

      • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
        4·
        7 hours ago

        When I think of corporate corruption, I think of cooking the books, lobbying the government, bribing, or even straight up harassment and assassination. But in this case, I don’t think it’s corruption. If the company has enough cash for extra perks, why the hell not.

  • cute_noker@feddit.dk
    19·
    16 hours ago

    Here is the expendability graph

    📉

    If the guy with the “don’t-turn-off”-server gets fired everyone know that the ship will sink