Programmer Humor

Importance, or lack of work contribution? Smaller screen = works less.

Its almost as if the more real work you do, the less you matter.

I wonder what would happen if the higher up in a company you get, the less you got payed. I'd imagine more actual work would be accomplished.

I have three monitors. FUCK.

The amount of screen size reflects the amount of work you do. So a smaller size has become a status signal. Showing you do not actually work.

You do meetings

There are exceptions. My ex CEO and his nepo kids demanded ultrawides so they could more efficiently watch Fox News and get scammed by horny MILFS in their area that want to hook up NOW.

This is true up until a point, and then the pattern starts to reverse. Like, the receptionist isn't going to get 2 monitors. They're likely to get one monitor and a very old desktop, or an old laptop.

Edit: Also an intern / co-op student / work experience student, etc. is probably as low as you can go on the totem pole of office work. I bet in many cases they're not even assigned a permanent office / cubicle since they're expected to shadow / be mentored by a variety of people. As a result, they probably get a second-hand, used laptop.

And, if the company has retail sales, techs who do installations, etc. they're often very low on the totem pole, and they're often not getting a computer at all. Maybe in some cases they'd get a "work phone", so they'd have the same kind of equipment as the CEO, but effectively be at the opposite end of the pole from them.

*(Percieved) importance.

and yet... if it's a company that's a bit slack on security, the right command in the right place by someone with 2 monitors can kill the company dead.

I feel wrong.

I have an iPhone, and a laptop and 2 screens.

Hi, it's me. Two Monitor Man.

Eh, as a dev I prefer just notebook screen over multiple screens

I beg to differ, I'm a corporate slave on a 13" laptop

Value is not the same as importance

Oh fuck, I have 5 27-32” monitors, phone, 2 laptops and a wall TV. Based on this I’m half fired already.

4 monitors & 2 compiters at my last job; 1 computer and 3 monitors at this job... 🎵movin' on up...🎵

Here is the expendability graph

📉

If the guy with the "don't-turn-off"-server gets fired everyone know that the ship will sink

Kinda reminds me this Game one plays in Theatre which is to Play The Status (you're given a number between 1 and 10, with 1 having the lowest social status and 10 the highest, and you try and act as such a person).

Alongside the whole chin-down to chin-up thing, people tend to do more fast and confident moving the higher the status, but the reality is that whilst indeed up the scale in professional environment the higher the status the more busy and rushed they seem, the trully highest status people (the 10s) don't at all rush: as I put it back then (this was the UK) "the Queen doesn't rush because for everybody the right time for the Queen to be somewhere is when she's there, even it it's not actually so, hence she doesn't need to rush".

There was also some cartoon making the rounds many years ago about how people on a company looked depending on their social status, were you started with the unkept shabbily dressed homeless person that lived outside the vuilding, and as you went up the professional scale people got progressively more well dressed and into suits and such, and then all of a sudden a big switch, as the company owner at the top dressed as shabbily as the homeless person.

A bit higher up is an old-school dial phone. And even higher is a dial phone without the actual dial

What bout monitor + lappy or biblically accurate computers

Compensation is inversely proportional to productivity.

What if you prefer both ends of the scale? I'll take as many monitors as HR will allow, but I will also kidnap a microsoft surface from the ewaste pile as it is so damn handy when you need to go to a location to fix things that dont have a spot to set a laptop.

"Importance™"

There was a study years ago about American TV ownership. Size of television inversely correlates with income.

Depends how lucky you are. There is a guy who works in upper management and he has the privilege to order new equipment for his office, which is all expenses paid by the company. He built a gaming computer complete with neon lights and four monitors right in his office.

"Honey, I will be late from work! I will be back at 3am!"

teabags scrumballs69 in Call of Duty

Apparently I'm off the end of the chart. My last workplace set up had:

• primary 15" laptop with two external monitors (so 3 screens in use simultaneously)
• secondary 15" laptop with external monitor (so another 2 screens) when the primary one was tied up doing heavy processing (I was lucky and managed to hold onto my previous laptop when we did the usual rounds of device upgrades whereas most people just returned them to IT to be retired, so I had a spare that I could readily take home for WFH days without messing with my main office setup)
• a standalone PC monitor (for automation stuff, so the screen was there just for monitoring as needed)

CRT = cafeteria worker

It's only about how important you're to shareholders. At 6 monitors, you'll become the ever important cyber security expert, who will get replaced by AI, except said AI will do a job so bad it'll sink the company.