ULPT Request: How to get work laptop upgraded before warranty is up?
Posted by element_115_@reddit | UnethicalLifeProTips | View on Reddit | 19 comments
When I was hired my job gave me this really simple dell.
Recently we added a new guy to the team and my manager found out she could request a more powerful engineering laptop which is more powerful and has a bigger screen. We already tried to submit an upgrade request for me citing slow processing and windows glitches on my current laptop, but the support team just downloaded some updates and stuff and refused to acknowledge the need for an upgrade.
There’s not really any legitimate problems but sometimes my external monitors will turn off due to the low power connection with the dock. This could be fixed by upgrading my dock to have two usb connections or by getting the engineering laptop.
Is there a way for me to get a new laptop without getting in trouble? Supposedly I still have another year or two in warranty on my current one before I’m eligible.
Anagoth9@reddit
Buy the IT team donuts for a month then ask again.
tacosferbreakfast@reddit
Are you paid per job or are you salary/hourly? The real ULPT is to make your productivity even worse and blame it on the laptop. Produce less each week, blame your equipment.
element_115_@reddit (OP)
It’s a salaried role, I tried to go the whole “pc is slow and affecting my work output” but they wanted specifics and then remoted in to fix it
Foreign-Cookie-2871@reddit
Does it still have issues?
element_115_@reddit (OP)
It’s still incompatible with my dock so I either need a new dock or new machine. There’s not inherently anything wrong with it I just want the bigger and beefier one
i-am-foxymoron@reddit
I'm going to say "no". You've explained to the powers that be and they've had IT "fix it". Don't know how smart your boss & IT are, but if your computer has a catastrophic failure, they may be suspicious that you had something to do with it.
jim_br@reddit
I’m retired from 40 years in IT.
THIS. The IT team is not stupid.
Anytime we changed the standard kit for employees, I’d set up a scoreboard on the number of {laptop/monitor/phone} envy requests we got. Whoever was closest to the actual number of tickets won.
The winner got to choose the food we’d have for the next team lunch.
Mysterious-Tackle-58@reddit
Hmm, why the downvotes? I think former IT dude is correct.
conebone69696969@reddit
OP messed up by going the ethical route, now it’ll be obvious to anyone with a brain when it accidentally breaks. Maybe give it some time and drop it
Key-Candle8141@reddit
You go the blow job route like your coworker? That would be unethical 🙂
cppadam@reddit
...just tell your boss that you have to restart multiple times per day because your computer is old. Tell him that IT won't replace it. Bosses can talk to IT supervisors and just say "replace it". Nothing unethical about it.
Inner_Rough591@reddit
Gravity 😂
wayneamartin@reddit
anything you can think of has already been written down
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desi_fubu@reddit
put it in microwave for 10 secs
jarrucho@reddit
My iPhone needed more than ten secs
desi_fubu@reddit
don't use pop corn settings
jarrucho@reddit
Heat is your friend
tonxbob@reddit
I once spilled a cup of coffee on a relatively new macbook pro.. got a new one but my co workers roasted me for the next 2 months lol
MyFavoriteDisease@reddit
Mine fell off a car roof once.