Why troubleshoot Terraform when you can procrastinate by updating your onboarding slide deck instead?

A slide titled Sticker Shock, showing a MacBook covered in stickers with a banned icon over top. A second image with Sarah McLachlan and a poorly composited MacBook bearing multiple marks where stickers had been previously. There are also corny slogans, "You wouldn't tattoo a baby.", "Don't mark a laptop for life.", "Stickers destroy lives."

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[–] 32 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Stickers make the computer go faster. Bonus points for hot rod flames.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Meh. Most of our laptops stay with the user until replaced. If not, they usually come off pretty easily, and a little goo gone does the rest.

    If they're really troublesome, I'll just take it for myself because idgaf, or give it to an intern.

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  • [–] [S] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    If only our turnover rate was that low... Getting them off isn't bad. It's the folk who work outside or by a window so the uncovered areas of chassis oxidizes faster than the areas under the stickers. When you take the stickers off you're left with those permanent tattoo marks.

    I just offer to order staff those cheap laptop shells and they can put their stickers on those.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Ahh, all our people work at desks inside, usually even when they're in the field. Dell aluminum shells don't retain or discolor much. A rubber/plastic ruggedized one would be a different story entirely.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    But then how people will know:

    • what Linux distro I'm using,
    • what programming languages I code in,
    • what VTuber I could get a pack of stickers that I thought looked cool?
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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    My problem is I'm always rocking an old thinkpad, and I don't want to "waste" any good stickers on something that could break at any moment. Better leave the stickers in a drawer.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Stickerbomb go BRRR

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  • It's been awhile, but part of my job used to be removing this and still... If you can tell what color the laptop is, then you obviously don't like the computer that much.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    In the roms of an Angel…

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I was the sysadmin at a software dev, also responsible for purchasing and redistributing laptops. Fuck all your stickers! I expensed $3,213 worth of Goo Gone and paper towels!

    "New hire coming, get them a laptop."

    <looking at my pile of perfectly good, sticker covered laptops>

    "I'll order a new one."

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    I solved this differently. I have a framework and told my boss: "if i leave the company before the laptop is mine, ill pay the 100€ it costs to get a new top cover to replace the stickered one" :p.

    Its a 5min job so ye hehe

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I'd check out that PowerPoint.

    I just have specific subject instructional decks at this point, though they are all riddled with terrible jokes and puns.

    Just how I like them.

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