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my employer is making me buy a new PC for my remote job (or update and use my own, instead) (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Apparently, the PC I was given by my employer less than a year ago is too out of date (uses Windows 10) and I have to have Windows 11 now for security reasons. I have a gaming PC, but it's my partner's, too, and it'd be a huge waste of its power and graphics card, plus it'd have to be moved. I really don't want to do that.

A new company owns the company I work for now, but still. This is not what I agreed to. Ugh. I'm so annoyed.

It's not that expensive, really ($200), but it's the principle of the matter. How long will it be before they force me to do this again, anyway??? I already get paid a shit wage.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Right and in the meantime they have no income. That's not an immediate process, it can take months, years even. In the immediate if they lose their job they have no income. It means no rent payment, no food money, most people have no savings and live paycheck to paycheck. They have to find another job while waiting on this lawsuit. I don't blame someone in that position for not wanting to get fired, even if they are morally in the right.