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.