My stubborn insistence and asking, asking, asking has finally paid off: I’ve now got my colleague’s computer, with, notably, 1024MB of RAM instead of 256. I had been on the case from the very first day I started, considering it absolutely unacceptable to be working with a 5-year-old shitty LAPTOP.
I had to push the matter till the last minute though - even while reluctantly agreeing to swap the computers (my colleague, who had been using the fast computer, had left on Monday), IT said to me:
Well…now that you have this computer, you won’t get a new one once they get upgraded next year [!!].
We’ll cross that bridge when we get to it, IT!
Lesson learnt:
Ask, Ask, Ask for it, otherwise you won’t get it. Yes, you may make yourself unpopular, but life isn’t about wishy-washy and accepting what other people tell you to do. I felt so strongly about this point that I had considered quitting my job if they hadn’t given me a decent machine (true! I don’t know if I would really have done it, but it’s like cutting my arm off and expecting me to play the guitar. They don’t get it at all though, which is quite worrying).
Filed under: Daily life, PC, Work | Tagged: battle, computers, upgrade, win, Work
256MB of RAM? With RAM being so ridiculously cheap, you can buy 4GB of RAM for a _laptop_ and that wouldn’t be a big deal.
BTW, I’m buying 2GB of RAM for my white Vaio, I’d buy 4 but 2GB is the maximum this model can handle.
they’re fucking useless! They spend £££ on buying really crappy, spammy ads, while not sorting out the absolute basics in the office. A lot of people still have 256RAM, because they simply accept the given or don’t understand what’s going on (some don’t have a computer at home so they wouldn’t know the difference…)
256mb!!!! that sound very slow, give me 1gb= any day