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Sad, but my company just took a step back ten years this week. We were a small company originally, very mobile IT engIneering and sales teams. If you ever came
by joejohnson 15y ago
Sad, but my company just took a step back ten years this week. We were a small company originally, very mobile IT engIneering and sales teams. If you ever came to our offices it would be a ghost town during the day if everyone was busy out on client sites. We had Citrix for access back to the office, an allowance to get whatever data plan we wanted, provided light weight laptops, and all our apps were available by remote. Then we got bought by a much bigger company. Easier to kill of our systems and move us into the collective. Now my laptop is a shitty dell that weighs a ton, and our time sheet system now only works with IE, so my iPad now can no longer work seamlessly, so I HAVE to take my laptop with me, and our office communicator system now only works on the corporate network.
No companies have to support BYOD, but it does make it feel like ten years ago with out it. 8(
- dualogy 15y agoHey, at least you got a laptop -- 10 years ago, everyone was still tied to desktops and laptops were the iPad-like flexibly-mobile novelty back then. (And you brought one to a coffeeshop, everyone stared at you like you're a Mad Professor. Well, outside the Valley, I suppose.)
- sopooneo 15y agoLaptops were already pretty ubiquitous at coffee shops around Cambridge, MA ten years ago. Longer than that actually. But I guess we weren't exactly representative of the nation.
- CamperBob 15y agoCan you leave the laptop at home and talk to it with VNC? The iPad is God's own VNC client.
- omgsean 15y agoUnless this is your dream job I would start putting your resume together, that sounds like a tech ghetto red flag.