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On filing the corners off my MacBooks (kentwalters.com)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 20 points 6 months ago* (8 children)

Your IT department is ludicrous. The resale value isn’t impacted by stickers; they’re sold in lots.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago

    My IT department puts anything capable of storing data into a chipper when its time has come. The guys who load the trucks will throw laptops like frisbees into the steel cage that they lock the devices in between the office and the shredder.

    They probably wouldn’t care if you gave your laptop a tattoo or even a piercing.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I'm not quite sure whether we're forbidden to put stickers on our work laptops, but almost everybody does. How else am I supposed to recognise mine after leaving it in a meeting room with a few others and coming back a while later?

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    I've never put stickers on any of my equipment, personal or otherwise ... But someone at my work once told me that one could procure plastic shells you can put on Macbooks so you can a. Not damage the device and b. Take your stickers with you when you leave.

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  • [–] -5 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

    Its company property, you don’t go putting stickers on company printers or the walls of your office.

    And it’s not about resale value, it’s about corporate and professional image. We’re free to destructively mod our personal equipments, but not those of others.

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