today was one of the weirdest encounters i’ve had at worki’m a supervisor at a company, and one of the employees i’ve been overseeing for about 4 months uses ubuntu on his work laptop. it was always a bit inconvenient since everyone else uses macs (company provided), so we’d have to deal with flash drives or uploads instead of just airdrop, but whatever — he got his work done so i didn’t careuntil todayi gave him something urgent to finish. came back after an hour and asked if he was done. he says he’s “having issues with his OS”we’re on a tight deadline, so i offer him a spare dell latitude to just get it done quicklythis guy straight up refuses and says “i don’t use this trash”at that point i don’t even care, i just tell him we need to finish the task NOW. he takes the laptop… and instead of doing the work, he starts trying to install ubuntu on itthat’s when i lost it. like actually what are you doing? you’re on the clock, we’re behind, and you’re reinstalling your favorite OS instead of doing your jobi call him out for being childish and refusing to use a perfectly working machine just because it’s windowshis response?“i don’t want to work for this company anymore”and he just leaves. quits on the spotimagine being broke and quitting your job because you refuse to use windows for a couple hoursthe guy was always kinda paranoid and weird, but this was next levellinux users will really choose their OS over paying rent
I’ve walked away from jobs for less. Sticking around a job you don’t vibe with is for old heads.
>>108519603let me guess, mid 20s at most? i’ve worked with a few guys like that and they all act the same, super stubborn about their setup even when it makes no sense in a work environment
>>108519656from what i’ve heard, his mom is sick and he actually needs the money, which makes this even worse. quitting your job just because you had to use windows for a bit is honestly one of the most immature decisions you can make
>>108519603It's a cool story, but hard to believe. You should've said it was debian and he refused to use non-free firmware or smth.
>>108519691I genuinely don’t blame you. I’ve never witnessed anyone do that before.
>>108519603The lintard cult is certainly real, but how come in your story you switched from "everyone uses macs" to having the spare Lenovo around?
>>108519668To be honest, I don’t believe it’s about age. I’ve met many employees in their early to mid 20s, and they are quite mature.
>>108519701Right. So you are looking for him here or smth? I imagine he would post here regularly.
>>108519720you have to go to registration to claim your macbook so they can assign it under your employee name and number. not everyone does it immediately, and we still have a bunch of spare dell/windows laptops around the office for situations like this
>>108519603anon nobody uses whatever "airdrop" is at workdo you even have a job?
>>108519722No just wanted to share the story
>>108519749yeah we do, it’s literally built into macOS. when most of the office is on macbooks it’s the fastest way to move files locally without messing with drives or uploads. not every workplace is stuck emailing zip files back and forth
>>108519765anon.. i just told you that nobody uses "airdrop" at work. nobody "emails zip files" either.>without messing with drives or uploadshave you ever even had a job?? you sound unemployed desu.
>>108519770You have no idea how bad zoomers in the workplace truly are (OP included)
>>108519770it’s not that deep. in a mac based office people use airdrop for quick file transfers, and internal shares for everything else. different environments use different tools, not everyone’s workflow is the same as yours
>>108519785>mac based officedoesn't exist>people use airdrop for quick file transfers, and internal shares for everything elseno they don't>this storynever happenedyou are unemployed
>>108519776i didn’t make the rules, that’s just how the company operates
>>108519798sure, whatever helps you sleep at night, buddy
>>108519770idk what you’re on about, we too have mostly macbooks at work and people use airdrop for quick stuff all the time. it’s not some crazy concept
