Pays to make friends with the IT guy

So at my work i am the lowest guy on the totem and was told there was no reason to upgrade me to what the big guys are getting.

they are getting MBP 13" with the i7 and 8 gb ram with a 27" apple thunderbolt display and magic mouse with keyboard.

The IT guy guy came yesterday and was setting up the guys i work with and while he was here we were just shooting the bull and we got along pretty well. At the end of him setting up the system he packed up and said i will be back with yours tommorow (which is today)

Yipee

What is your job, interesting to see what types of business are going Mac

RustProofCorn said:

So at my work i am the lowest guy on the totem and was told there was no reason to upgrade me to what the big guys are getting.

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Sometimes the "Big Guys"...really don't need the high-end equipment...since they may not be doing anything other than checking e-mail, stock quotes, and e-Bay! Sometimes (maybe many times)...it's the "little guys" that REALLY need the horsepower!!!

Funny how the bigger title automatically means...better equipment!!! Believe me...the CEO of a company MANY times...does not need the computing power someone "in the trenches" needs! But of course...what the CEO wants...the CEO gets!!!

- Nick

pigoo3 said:

Funny how the bigger title automatically means...better equipment!!! Believe me...the CEO of a company MANY times...does not need the computing power someone "in the trenches" needs! But of course...what the CEO wants...the CEO gets!!!

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Oh how true that is. I remember helping to set up the gear in the office of the company's president once (during a summer job) and being amazed at what we were asked to set up. He wanted televisions as monitors on separate walls so he could face either the north or east facing wall and wanted them to work like an extended monitor as well. He also had to have much better than company average specs and I can guarantee that he didn't need them.

vansmith said:

Oh how true that is. I remember helping to set up the gear in the office of the company's president once (during a summer job) and being amazed at what we were asked to set up. He wanted televisions as monitors on separate walls so he could face either the north or east facing wall and wanted them to work like an extended monitor as well. He also had to have much better than company average specs and I can guarantee that he didn't need them.

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How true!!! Of course this is all about impressing your friends, peers, and whomever else walks into the office!!!

- Nick

I am a Expediter in the Oil Field.

Muhahahaha

pigoo3 said:

Sometimes the "Big Guys"...really don't need the high-end equipment...since they may not be doing anything other than checking e-mail, stock quotes, and e-Bay! Sometimes (maybe many times)...it's the "little guys" that REALLY need the horsepower!!!

Funny how the bigger title automatically means...better equipment!!! Believe me...the CEO of a company MANY times...does not need the computing power someone "in the trenches" needs! But of course...what the CEO wants...the CEO gets!!!

- Nick

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Some day I'm going to be a "big guy" at work and not answer email...

That'd be a nice day!

pigoo3 said:

Sometimes the "Big Guys"...really don't need the high-end equipment...since they may not be doing anything other than checking e-mail, stock quotes, and e-Bay! Sometimes (maybe many times)...it's the "little guys" that REALLY need the horsepower!!!

Funny how the bigger title automatically means...better equipment!!! Believe me...the CEO of a company MANY times...does not need the computing power someone "in the trenches" needs! But of course...what the CEO wants...the CEO gets!!!

- Nick

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Having worked in IT for the better part of the last two decades, I can say unequivocally that this is true. I would also expand it to say that some of the biggest techno-morons are also those who garner the biggest salaries. It's a status symbol like any other, even if they couldn't tell you the difference between the keyboard and the mouse.

I've seen more than my fair share of executives who read their email, check their stock quotes and occasionally open a spreadsheet and/or Word document to puzzle over the content generated by real worker-bees who actually do work on 5 year old PCs that have a quarter of the computing power of the one sitting on the exec's desk.

Sad to say it, but such is the way of the world we live in...

RustProofCorn said:

Muhahahaha

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Very pretty, congrats!

Coolest part is they got me the MacBook Pro so i can take it home and work from there. the screen sure looks nice but oh the glare.

Oh and the Keyboard is mine. they forgot to bring a wired keyboard down so i am using my bt one in the meantime.

RustProofCorn said:

Coolest part is they got me the MacBook Pro so i can take it home and work from there. the screen sure looks nice but oh the glare.

Oh and the Keyboard is mine. they forgot to bring a wired keyboard down so i am using my bt one in the meantime.

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I'm confused! You said that you're the "lowest guy on the totem"...but it seems that you got some pretty good equipment.

So like you said...I would hate to see/know what the "big guys" got!

- Nick

pigoo3 said:

I'm confused! You said that you're the "lowest guy on the totem"...but it seems that you got some pretty good equipment.

So like you said...I would hate to see/know what the "big guys" got!

- Nick

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yeah man way nice stuff. i am not complaining. i just did a geek bench score and got 7822 seems pretty respectable. i don't know how to copy the page to show you guys i was trying to post it in the geek bench thread then gave up.

If I was the "Big Guy" at a company I'd take that set-up home with me & just keep a basic-spec notebook in the office to maintain all my correspondence on