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Linux saved me today (anarchist.nexus)
submitted 1 month ago by to c/linux@lemmy.world
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I'm an educator, and my Windows PC crashed during my first period class.

I had a cinnamon mint USB drive in my bag. I booted to it, and it saved the day!

I don't have anybody to tell just how much of a godsend that was, but I figured you guys might appreciate it!

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[–] 2 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Teachers are educators, but not all educators are teachers. Also, the person I was originally responding to may have options in other fields.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    If they have options in other fields, they likely know it and are remaining in the education profession because of their love for it; that's certainly true for every educator I know currently. Many municipal school systems exploit this love ruthlessly to pay their teachers less.

    In any case, I am a software engineer and have never had the ability to negotiate my contract to that extent. Teachers typically have significantly less leverage even than I do.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (4 children)

    In any case, I am a software engineer and have never had the ability to negotiate my contract to that extent.

    Have you ever tried? This kind of negotiation unfortunately typically requires a job change, employers are really really bad at understanding how valuable it is to motivate employees at little to no cost to them.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Not in this economy. I've never had enough good offers to be able to risk it.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Well - we have a saying in German: "Fragen kostet nichts" - asking doesn't cost anything. At least you tried then, worst they can say is "no". Expect that, and who knows, maybe you get a surprise.

    Maybe they'll let you work with a "technical device" that you administrate yourself, while for access to company resources you still have to use the corporate vanilla computer.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I know the guy who administers the company-owned devices at my current company. He's stretched thin enough that I'm quite sure the answer would be no; he just doesn't have the bandwidth to consider the possible implications of such a thing.

    Not that I don't, uh... basically do that anyway in a lot of cases. I have a lot of latitude. But I don't think it's as common to be able to make those requests as you might think.

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