Today I asked my boss to order four(!)new MacBookPro 16" with 48GB RAM and 2TB SSD, each, for four members of my team (well, three + one, whereas the "one" is joining us on August 1st).
It seems my predecessor didn't really give a damn about what tools his team members had and the team members were not taught to complain about inadequate equipment: one of them, the one doing the main test-automation, had a MacBookPro from 2018(!!) - WTF?? - my boss didn't even now that.
So, now they are all getting state-of-the art MBP with M4 Pro, 48GB RAM and 2TB SSD (and of course, they all also get one external SSD for TimeMachine).
Three of them decided to get US keyboard layout, one prefers German.
Yay!
And my boss' reaction? He sent me the screenshot of the orders he placed - after asking whether I want to wait for the M5 or order the M4 now for three of them 😂😂
Mimi
Als Antwort auf imdat celeste [witchzard] • • •imdat celeste [witchzard]
Als Antwort auf Mimi • • •@Mimi The thing is, a good manager knows that the most valuable "resource" are the people and their time. Just spending 30 minutes in a call with that employee who has a laptop from 2018 (with 16GB RAM)* showed me how much time and money we'd save by giving her the most powerful MacBookPro that is available now: she had to stop a few other processes to be able to have a video-call with me!
Yep, a good boss knows that the right environment (tools, processes, ...) is key to how successful an employee can be.
*: We're all software engineers, so 16GB is absolutely nothing for what we are doing