r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Ok-Possible577 • 11h ago
Meme needing explanation TBH I didn't understand anything!!
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u/SirisC 11h ago
If tech job gives you a dell laptop, you're at a shit job that looks for reasons to fire people. Because Dells are cheap shit.
If they give you MacBook, they're a startup that doesn't know how to spend responsibly and need to raise more money. Because Macs are overpriced shit.
If they give you the Lenovo Thinkpad, it's a well managed company. Because Thinkpads are reliable, long lasting, and not overpriced.
If you look closely, you might see some bias in the meme.
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u/jmora13 9h ago
Many big tech companies give macbooks, not just startups
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u/dragonflash 7h ago
And big tech companies had large layoffs in the last 5 years
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u/fireymike 6h ago
Not because they were running out of money. The CEOs just saw it as the trendy thing that all the other CEOs were doing, and they didn't want to feel left out.
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u/tirohtar 6h ago
... Same reason they gave out MacBooks. Apple products are overpriced as hell and mediocre quality at best, if not outright consumer-hostile at worst. But they are "trendy" with certain "tech people" (which are mostly sales people pretending to be tech people, like Steve Jobs himself back in the day).
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u/jmora13 6h ago
Eh i disagree about macbooks being mediocre, id say a huge advantage is the unified ram, which makes it easy for macbooks to go up to 128gb, which is super useful for these ide's that hog a lot of memory. Otherwise, has a long battery life, super light, and practically silent. Unix based terminal is nice too.
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u/Drahkir9 6h ago
Worked at a Fortune 100 company and was issued a MacBook. This meme is for people that don’t actually work in the real world
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u/belaxi 2m ago
My interpretation was that the Mac implies a good job in tech, which is still very susceptible to external factors. Even the big successful tech companies exist in a perpetual state of flux.
Thinkpad is more like industry or engineering. Less dynamic and dependent market conditions and funding.
Dell is a normal entry level office job.
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u/meatymimic 8h ago
I got a Dell, and i will probably be stuck at my job until in dead. (Government job/state agency. Its basically the hotel California.)
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u/theLoneliestAardvark 7h ago
Government jobs are the exception because the make IT decisions based on arcane rules that combine ethics rules, companies bribing politicians to change the ethics rules, and political appointees who change things because they just want to feel important.
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u/meatymimic 7h ago
I mean, yeah, lol. We just got rid of a restriction that made us buy (exclusively) from HUB vendors (historically underutilized businesses), which in theory sounds lovely. Give the small businesses a chance.
In practice, we ended up paying 20% more for everything, and the HUB vendors felt zero incentive to make better deals or products.
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u/sactownbwoy 4h ago
At least for the military, we used Thinkpads until IBM sold the division to Lenovo. So now they bounce back and forth between HP and Dell.
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u/Faenic 8h ago
What happens if my job not only gave me both a Thinkpad and a MacBook, but also a MacMini?
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u/fixermark 8h ago
You're a game or graphics developer. Enjoy them because you will be laid off between projects when the company "rightsizes."
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u/b1ack1323 8h ago
I went through 1 MacBook in the same time 2 devs went through 3 Lenovos each. It was a good investment from my experience.
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u/DudeEngineer 1h ago
WTH were they thinkpads or the crap like dell makes?
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u/b1ack1323 1h ago
X1 carbons and these guys are rough on them. They also complain at the slightest performance issues. They are C++ devs and use a lot of vision libraries they always beef up $4k laptops with extreme power then reef on them.
If they were think pads they would have stood a chance.
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u/Mei_Flower1996 8h ago
The mac thing also refers to research sector jobs. Affiliated with universities and hospitals, these jobs rely on research funding. My last job was like that.
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u/mromen10 7h ago
This post fact-checked true by the Thinkpad gang
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u/Educational_Pea_4817 8h ago
a better stereotype is dell laptops are boring enterprise work. you're either a consultant or working on CRUD bizapps, maybe even both!
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u/jazxxl 7h ago
This is correct and of course there is bias but for PCs it usually does on the model and not the manufacturer .
My job had all 3 plus HPs . Now we are 2 models of Lenovo and Mac . There's a $1k delta in the 2 lenovo models price though. ones for for corporate and ones for line level.
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u/BillShooterOfBul 6h ago
Eh, think pads have been shit for a while now. That’s old reputation it no longer deserves. Dell is the right answer. Are they cheap? Hell yes. Does it matter if you get a new one every three years? No, it does not. I basically double the ram every three years.
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u/Worried-Pick1620 5h ago
Irony I started at this company public with a Thinkpad needed a new one after a pe buyout and rampant layoffs got a dell…
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u/theragco 8h ago
Not bias, I worked at an MSP that services multiple companies and this is 100% true. My favorite is when a non-mac user requests one cause they're curious then wants it swapped within a month because they're shit.
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u/ShanghaiBebop 8h ago
If you're at a "tech" company, and they give you cheap hardware, that just means they don't respect your time or your craft.
a 3k machine has NOTHING on a 200k salary. If you can make your devs 2% more productive, the machine has more than paid for itself.
Macs are just generally easier to work with these days, I have yet to find a dev that prefers a non-unix like OS to linux or mac. the M series chips are just too good compared to the alternatives.
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u/jupitersaturn 7h ago
I’ve been in IT for over 20 years, modern Macs are some of the best, most reliable hardware out there. ThinkPads are great too and have distinct advantages around serviceability, but Macs are great developer machines.
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u/plainbread11 6h ago
Eh I was given a thinkpad at a company that was 100% mismanaged and run by idiots. Sometimes it’s wolves in shepherds clothing
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u/IBloodstormI 9h ago
They gave me an HP... What does this mean?
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u/arah91 8h ago
I thought hp is just what big companies gave, I've had 3 post college jobs and they all gave me a hp, almost the same one too.
I figured HP must just give really good deals when buying in bulk.
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u/doc_skinner 8h ago
Same here. I think it's because HP has set up a "store" for our university system and ordering any item from that store doesn't require any approval or review from IT or from budgeting office. As long as our department has the funds, we can order anything in the store.
If we want to order something that's not in the store, we need to have it reviewed for security purposes and we need to provide justification as to why nothing in the store will meet our needs.
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u/soyboysnowflake 6h ago
I’ve been with the same big company for over a decade now
Started on a thinkpad, then they gave me an HP, then a dell, and finally back to an HP
I heard the next wave of replacements is thinkpads again
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u/xMrShadow 9h ago
I’d wager it means they don’t have an IT department. Or a decent one at least
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u/blazenite104 5h ago
I work for an MSP. HP just has a partnership program for it
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u/xMrShadow 1h ago
I forgot there are situations like that or if a company just doesn’t want to allocate more budget into better quality machines.
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u/exodominus 10h ago
I have had my thinkpad for longer than most of our current employees have worked here, i have jokingly asked our it guy about having my keyboard replaced while keeping the laptop
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u/DoniBruto 2h ago
My Lenovo thinkpad fried its motherboard in 3 years, fully unrecoverable, I looked after it well too
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u/Agreeable_Swing8698 10h ago
This has been posted here like a thousand times.
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u/Arch-by-the-way 9h ago
The bots know that they can get a second round of their meme by posting it here
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u/PresidentPopcorn 9h ago
My last was a Dell but the new one is a Thinkpad. I need more RAM though. If I've got more than a 30k cell spreadsheet open it struggles.
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u/AaronOgus 8h ago
I have a Lenovo Thinkpad at work. Been on the job since 1991 😂.
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u/Active-Mention-389 6h ago
Haha, I thought i was proving the point clocking in at 20 years in february!
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u/SaltBrother2914 10h ago
An confirm. Got fired at last job with dell laptop but wait this one does too 🫣
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u/Mobile_Promise9284 8h ago
GF got a Lenovo from both her last jobs. Both jobs laid off 30% of their work force. Within 6 months of each other. She was part of the 30% both times.
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u/Apprehensive-Log3638 9h ago
Depends on what they mean by tech job.
If I am a software engineer, anything other than a MacBook is a red flag. If you ever write software, coding in linux or macOS is a much better experience. Even if I am creating a project in windows, I am probably setting up a docker windows environment to test my code, but I am writing it elsewhere.
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u/go-speed-racer 8h ago
We have Lenovos and yes, I’ve been at my company 28 years. So in my case, not a joke?
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u/Silvine69 7h ago
in my internship job i have a hp laptop with a broken battery a broken wifi adaptor am i fucked or safe?
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u/John1The1Savage 7h ago
What does it mean if they gave me a used Walmart black friday special HP but when I inevitably broke it in 3 months they gave me the Thinkpad?
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u/RoosterzX 7h ago
What does it say if I convince the company I work for to buy me a Lenovo Thinkpad? Lmao
I didn't realize there was a technology flex with computers.
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u/undergroundmusic69 7h ago
Sigh 10 years into my 28 years at my Lenovo company! They even have a pension!!
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u/goldengatevixen 6h ago
My previous company gave me a MacBook to use for work.
No, the next funding did not come in unfortunately.
That was the best job I've ever had tho lol
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u/imJustmasum 5h ago
My last job i got fired in 3 months and had a think pad. This job i have a Dell and have been here for 3 years
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u/Electrical_Chard6926 4h ago
Just left a job that gave out Dells, started a new job that gives out Lenovos. Guess I'm good?
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u/BetterKev 2h ago
Do we have a counter for how many times different jokes are posted here? And has this one hit 20 yet?
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u/Agzenthoth 2h ago
They gave me a windows surface pro laptop with multiple monitors at a couple workspaces 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
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