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Cake day: July 5th, 2023

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  • I was working in my (poor third world) government job, and our keyboard broke. Replacements took months, since they only bought mouse and keyboards in bulk once per year or so, and they ran out of.

    I had a second job working as a contractor for a private company, where we were contracted for a public hospital providing system administration and technical support. We had some old PS2 keyboards that were to be decommissioned, but since they didn't have inventory number, I got hold of them and brought some to my other job.

    So I donated some equipment from one area of government to another, but it was kinda illegal, lol 😆.




  • I'm from South America and work for a global company with headquarters in the Netherlands and important offices in Sweden and France.

    They talk about Latin America as a "focus region" and wanting to develop the company here, but their only interest is how much money they can extract and take to Europe. They don't give a shit about the employees here.

    And they're sooo racist about it, but they would never admit it. When one of the products was repurposed for use in Latin America, the European people working on it all desperately transferred teams because no one wanted to work with us. If we ask for anything they just stall and make us wait for weeks or months for it.
    They say that they want us to have "ownership" of our processes and tools, but we have to ask for permission for any project, no matter how small.
    If we do things our way, they block us with bureaucracy and red tape and make us jump through hoops for every little thing.

    I could continue all day...