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Help me understand something. I understand that the company should pay for Copilot in principle. However, is paying $120 per year that much when it helps you

Help me understand something. I understand that the company should pay for Copilot in principle. However, is paying $120 per year that much when it helps you in your at least mid-five-figures job? I would ask for the reimbursement if it was annual, but filling out a form to ask for $10 back every month seems a bit over the top. Maybe I'm a spendthrift? Am I missing something here? Would you say I am being irresponsible with my money? I just remembered to cancel my AMC membership. That one was definitely not helping me do my job faster, and I'm not particularly regretful of losing a few dollars.

ssmw 4y ago
Any $ is too much $. I claim back $1.99 every month through the horrible SAP Concur.
- pmarreck 4y ago
  i had to use that at a $prevJob. My condolences
jraph 4y ago
If it's a tool to do company's work, the company should pay for it.
lmm 4y ago
> However, is paying $120 per year that much when it helps you in your at least mid-five-figures job? I would ask for the reimbursement if it was annual, but filling out a form to ask for $10 back every month seems a bit over the top. Maybe I'm a spendthrift? It's a slippery slope. You can't start giving freebies to your bosses (who are almost certainly much wealthier than you are) or it'll never end, just like you can't ever pay blackmail
zarzavat 4y ago
On the flip side a company may want to buy a bulk license so that it is available for free to all their developers. You don’t want Bob being less productive just because he didn’t want to spend $10 a month.
LtWorf 4y ago
First of all. If I was the legal team of any company I'd tell developers to stay away from copilot, since the legal status is still undecided and microsoft has a disclaimer that any legal issues fall on the users (which is probably illegal but you'd have to sue microsoft to get it overturned). Second… It's a work tool just like any other work tool, why should I buy it out of pocket? In the end it's to the advantage of the company if I'm faster at my job. Now I'm thinking, precisely because it's not paid by the company but by the single user, in case there is legal action, the company might shift the blame on the developer. If they reimbursed they would have no way of claiming they weren't aware.

ssmw 4y ago

Any $ is too much $. I claim back $1.99 every month through the horrible SAP Concur.

pmarreck 4y ago
i had to use that at a $prevJob. My condolences

jraph 4y ago

If it's a tool to do company's work, the company should pay for it.

lmm 4y ago

> However, is paying $120 per year that much when it helps you in your at least mid-five-figures job? I would ask for the reimbursement if it was annual, but filling out a form to ask for $10 back every month seems a bit over the top. Maybe I'm a spendthrift? It's a slippery slope. You can't start giving freebies to your bosses (who are almost certainly much wealthier than you are) or it'll never end, just like you can't ever pay blackmail

zarzavat 4y ago

On the flip side a company may want to buy a bulk license so that it is available for free to all their developers. You don’t want Bob being less productive just because he didn’t want to spend $10 a month.

LtWorf 4y ago

First of all. If I was the legal team of any company I'd tell developers to stay away from copilot, since the legal status is still undecided and microsoft has a disclaimer that any legal issues fall on the users (which is probably illegal but you'd have to sue microsoft to get it overturned). Second… It's a work tool just like any other work tool, why should I buy it out of pocket? In the end it's to the advantage of the company if I'm faster at my job. Now I'm thinking, precisely because it's not paid by the company but by the single user, in case there is legal action, the company might shift the blame on the developer. If they reimbursed they would have no way of claiming they weren't aware.