The battery no longer works but I’ve kept it plugged in and used it for streaming music at work the last few years. Today it’s in an infinite loop of rebooting and I noticed the glass popped out!
The battery no longer works but I’ve kept it plugged in and used it for streaming music at work the last few years. Today it’s in an infinite loop of rebooting and I noticed the glass popped out!
My last job I had to pull HDDs from the all in one Mac desktops.
If the screens had been removed to upgrade the hardware previously, it was a major pain in the ass to remove because the adhesive to reattach them was much stronger than the OEM.
So, knowing how to do things properly, I asked where the heat gun was. My boss said, “You can’t use a heat gun. Just hit the screen with a hammer until it comes off.” I had already been hit close to my eye by flying glass from removing them normally at that point, and they didn’t provide eye protection.
That’s when I said they had a choice. I’d be using a heat gun, not removing the screens, or having a discussion with the safety office. It was my last week (90 day temp), so my boss said, “Fine, I’ll do it myself.”
I’ve never understood why it is that so many companies make trying to get proper tools to actually do the job you were hired to do is like pulling teeth. That same job I mentioned never wanted to buy me a proper screwdriver set because we had a lot of random junk coming through which could potentially include screwdrivers.
Convincing management took showing them how many computers I had to pass on because the random screwdrivers I can find will basically never include the dozen or so sizes of torx bits, triangle bits, square bits, or random other security bits that those computer used.
My proposed solution was to get one nice screwdriver with a nice varied set of bits meant for computers so that this one purchase can cover as many computers as possible and do it well. The set that I proposed would include 100 or so bits (overkill, but they’re not expensive so why not), would include a nice screwdriver that could reach deep into weird spaces, and would cost about $30-$40. The benefit would be that it would allow me to work on hundreds of dollars of machines every day that were otherwise being wasted.
After literally months of me asking about it on the regular, they came back with a $10 harbor freight ratcheting screwdriver with 10-20 bits that was too bulky to get recessed screws.
I know that frustration. I ended up bringing my own 100 piece security bit set because they had the same mismatched screwdriver issue.
I even tried to bring my own heat gun, but was told I couldn’t use it because the employer can’t be responsible if it breaks.
Like, it was a $10 HF heat gun. I couldn’t care less if it broke because it was a redundant one I bought because I couldn’t find mine.
But my boss didn’t like me very much because I had my degree, and was smarter than her (not a high bar to clear).
Good job standing up to unsafe bullshit in the workplace. It’s never easy.
I was only able to do it so brazenly because my employment had a set end date, and I had already been hired full time by the department of my career. It was just a temp job to supplement after Musk killed my previous company.