This comment is way too far down. You work at the soeed you work, and you take the responsibility you have, and no more. I'm a contractor, I use my own machine.

This comment is way too far down. You work at the soeed you work, and you take the responsibility you have, and no more. I'm a contractor, I use my own machine. I can take a loan and upgrade if it would make sense, and I see the investment gains and tax benefits. If I was to move to an "employee" agreement, I'd expect them to send me a machine. That said, when I started 10 years ago, the company was super cheap and didn't buy me anything. I used my own and invested in myself by sending myself to conferences and what not. They later laid me off. That's what you get for trying too hard.