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Originally Posted by OtinG
That would have been nice, but the companies I worked for always seemed to treat the development department like the stepchild they really didn't want around but had to keep, especially the publications people! Even the programmers had outdated equipment. I remember one of the programmers had an old VGA monitor that was so bad she could barely read the code on it. She finally got so frustrated that she bought a monitor herself and brought it to work to use. In those days, the companies pretty much figuratively chained us to our desks and made us work 60 to 80 hour weeks. This was long before the modern tech giants like Google came along.
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Oh, I had the same problem when I worked at Verizon and ended up buying my own monitor to use. Generally, I found that at large corporations, if you worked for the in favor projects, you got the cool new toys and if you didn't, you made do with hand me downs.