Workers Will Smash Their PCs To Get an Upgrade

An anonymous reader writes "One in four office workers reckon that the best way to get a new work computer is to smash up the one they have — either that or to take it down to the junk shop themselves. Some 40 per cent of office workers complain that their aging workplace PC hurts their productivity and many are tempted to resort to extreme measures to get an upgrade, including taking a hammer to the aging beast on the desktop. Some ten per cent of UK workers said they'd even resort to buying new parts for their work devices themselves to perform their own upgrade; particularly those who work in smaller organizations."

Comments

What a bunch of dummies

[countertrolling]

Slow computers means taking lots of breaks and going out for a snack. I don't want to be more 'productive'. I want to relax, and a slow machine helps me do just that.

"What the hell is taking you so long?"

I just shrug and point to the screen...

Re:Something to be learned from the spiller

[clang_jangle]

The only way is to issue destructive/"accident prone" people used or reconditioned machines. I always say, "take care of this solid, but old machine for 18 months and we'll see about letting you have a new one.". It works pretty well. That coffee spiller would have been quite deflated if she'd had to deal with me, heh -- "I'm so sorry you had an accident with your Pentium M laptop; here's a nice, reconditioned PIII for a replacement -- awwww and you were only 6 months from getting one of the new ones... Well, maybe(the last quarter of 2012!".