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> The company supplies some workers with company-issued Chromebooks, but many workers use their personal devices for the role How is this even a thing? Are the
by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
> The company supplies some workers with company-issued Chromebooks, but many workers use their personal devices for the role
How is this even a thing? Are there seriously employees at a "tech company" bringing their own hardware? This is madness
- browningstreet 1y agoPeople willing to work for Musk are probably willing to put up with more adverse conditions than is usual or standard at other orgs.
- b3ing 1y agoThey are mostly visa workers so it’s not like they have much choice, if they don’t they go back to their country
- cedws 1y agoI rarely see this talked about - that H1B inherently creates a power imbalance in favour of the employer. It enables them to stomp on workers’ rights and pay less. All according to plan I’m sure.
- beng-nl 1y agoNot disagreeing with the imbalance, but I know about it (I don’t live in USA) because I’ve seen it discussed on HN and other discussion forums quite a few times.
- rchaud 1y agoSeems to be an issue in the tech industry more so than elsewhere. H1Bs are common in investment banking, management consulting, science labs, university jobs, really any sector where foreign graduates of US universities are hired.
- cbsks 1y agoI’m surprised that a “tech company” provides a Chromebook instead of a laptop.
- ankurdhama 1y agoChromeOS is more than enough for lots of roles. Even for devs (backend, web and android etc) it should be good enough if you have good enough CPU, RAM and storage.
- atoav 1y agoSure and water is enough for hydration so their cafeteria has no actual coffee or what. If you'd force me (a dev used to work on a blazingly fast Linux machine) to use this I'd just be inclined to look for a job elsewhere. Not sure if that was in your interest as a corp.
- bubblethink 1y agoProbably the most secure client system you can get these days. The purpose of the laptop is to ssh.
- Asraelite 1y agoDo you not consider a Chromebook to be a type of laptop? Is that because of the form factor or the OS?
- jofla_net 1y agoNot really, I was at a small one which allowed it, it was bliss, although I used a company one. In the end, when it folded, i bought it from them.
- bravetraveler 1y agoIt's not a great line to blur for either side of the business, IMO. Property issues all the way down with power imbalance for flavor. For brevity I'll gloss over the security/liability concerns for BYOD/them... Here's my anecdote: had to prove I didn't use what was their hardware to create something I released for free. I lost more in frustration alone than that saved. Nevermind the postage. Time and place matters, as always. They can provide what they want to monitor. Now: I'll buy a discount device, I won't offer my own. Quadruple for phones. Say the business wants to call outside of work. It can afford differential, payment for that device, and the plan to connect it. I'll still choose when it's on, human after all.
- rsynnott 1y agoI mean, it's run by _Elon Musk_; I'm not sure why you'd expect it to be run competently.
- aiddun 1y agoI'm under the impression from the article that these are for the people RLHFing the model, not the engineers