Sunday 23:30 > “And I just got my IT guy to load it up.”
This cannot be for real
Depends on if this is a work issued device or not. If someone steals my work issued, I don’t care at all. We have systems where I can still get my things done and the laptops are encrypted with remote wipe capabilities. Sucks to lose equipment, but whatever. That’s on my boss’ cost center.
Losing my personal laptop is another story. That’s money out of my pocket, investments in upgrades, and the worst part is the sticker hoard on the lid. How am I supposed to re-coup that kind of loss? I don’t even remember where I got all of them, and then the placement. It took weeks for some of them to make the cut and get positioned where you could still see the logo on the front without hindering the others. This would be a travesty.
At some level its just math. If you make enough money where your opportunity cost per hour is about the value of a laptop. Yeah, just buy a new one.
That’s not the major problem, the big problem is home security, not being confident to keep things at home， anxiety and worry over the loss.
Pretty much this. Like, the first part of “it’s just a thing”, I’ll agree with that. It sucks, but it’s an object. You can get another laptop.
What you really can’t get back is the anxiety, the worry, the loss of feeling safe. I’m paranoid of keeping anything either in my vehicle or at work at all because I’ve had things stolen from both places, and this was YEARS ago. I barely keep things at home for similar reasons, and don’t always feel safe THERE - I had a shitty landlord who just let her maintenance guys do whatever without proper notice, and I’ve woken up to strange guys in my apartment at 2AM as a result.
