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This is true up until a point, and then the pattern starts to reverse. Like, the receptionist isn’t going to get 2 monitors. They’re likely to get one monitor and a very old desktop, or an old laptop.
Edit: Also an intern / co-op student / work experience student, etc. is probably as low as you can go on the totem pole of office work. I bet in many cases they’re not even assigned a permanent office / cubicle since they’re expected to shadow / be mentored by a variety of people. As a result, they probably get a second-hand, used laptop.
And, if the company has retail sales, techs who do installations, etc. they’re often very low on the totem pole, and they’re often not getting a computer at all. Maybe in some cases they’d get a “work phone”, so they’d have the same kind of equipment as the CEO, but effectively be at the opposite end of the pole from them.
And sometimes you have techbro CEO who has like a video wall for no particularly good reason.
Sometimes, rich people like to cosplay being poor and unimportant.
It’s like, I have a 13" laptop, a 15" inch one, and two monitors at my desk with a dock… But so the my director… Actually, he doesn’t have the 13" one! Am I actually the director?
Which do you use most often?
A CEO might have a nice desktop, but is always out playing golf and so mostly uses his phone.
Forget using his phone screen, all an important CEO needs is wireless earbuds
Heh, I bet if you’re the CEO of a megacorp, you might not even carry your own electronics. You just have a gaggle of assistants around you who you bark orders at, and then they use their electronics to do something.
The amount of screen size reflects the amount of work you do. So a smaller size has become a status signal. Showing you do not actually work.
You do meetings
Value is not the same as importance
Hi, it’s me. Two Monitor Man.
I’m ultrawide…
And nobody would have known if you never said anything.
Eh, as a dev I prefer just notebook screen over multiple screens
Same, I’m also a dev who prefers working off a notebook screen. This fact boggles the minds of my coworkers, especially my boss who seems mortally offended that I only work on one screen.
I guess that means I’ve broken the social norms of a corporate slave?
It’s okay to have a wrong opinion.
(Don’t take this seriously)
I feel it. I excitedly set up my side monitor in portrait mode for coding ages ago, but turns out I barely ever use it. Instead, I just use it for Discord or random youtube videos playing on the side while I do all my work on the main monitor…
Every time the CEO walks by he thinks “that guy has upper management written all over him”.
I beg to differ, I’m a corporate slave on a 13" laptop
*(Percieved) importance.
What bout monitor + lappy or biblically accurate computers
When you have three monitors followed by two floating monitors above those on arms. A laptop on the side table neck to you. Your phone right below your keyboard and the tablet on top of the laptops keyboard.
You have reached peak screenage.
also smart watch
A bit higher up is an old-school dial phone. And even higher is a dial phone without the actual dial
Boss needs to get a hold of Plaza 1234 right away.
I was thinking more of a red phone kind of hotline, but this is even better LMAO
And, at the top, they just talk to people, like a mafia don.
Nah, above him is the guy who doesn’t even talk, just makes graffiti that puts the right messages directly into people’s subconsciousness.
And at the very top there’s a guy who returned to monke and only does primal grunts
Ya. The CEO has a person that has a phone and a laptop.
There was a study years ago about American TV ownership. Size of television inversely correlates with income.
Well yeah rich people don’t have to settle for sitting around the house all day. They have boats and racecars and planes to play with
When they want to Netflix and chill, they hire live actors to perform on stage in their house.
That’s mostly because the cost of a TV was far greater than it is today. So it took a lot more money to buy a larger TV. TVs today are dirt cheap compared to 50 years ago.
Yeah, that explains more big screens for lower income, it doesn’t explain so much why higher income folks would eschew the big screens.
It does if tech changes fast.
First, many rich people are older people.
Regardless of age, rich people bought expensive TVs when even the best ones were smaller. They still work great and have not been replaced.
Also, a TV is not as important to rich people. If they want to watch the game, they get tickets. The old screen is good enough. And a smaller screen probably fits nicer into their decor. In a poor household, the TV is the centrepiece and even if it is ugly, it looks better than the rest of the room.
Finally, rich people may be busier. I do not want this comment to be misunderstood but the reality is that television is just not as central to their lives.
Mostly though, I just think older TVs are smaller.
What if you prefer both ends of the scale? I’ll take as many monitors as HR will allow, but I will also kidnap a microsoft surface from the ewaste pile as it is so damn handy when you need to go to a location to fix things that dont have a spot to set a laptop.
It’s only about how important you’re to shareholders. At 6 monitors, you’ll become the ever important cyber security expert, who will get replaced by AI, except said AI will do a job so bad it’ll sink the company.
Uh-oh. I have three monitors, and one of them is a 43" 4k TV.
You’re the hero the company doesn’t deserve, but the one it needs right now.
I don’t have a phone. I just witness. I am posting this by sheer force of will. Someone hire me as you CEO.
It has been a while, so maybe I’m wrong, but this is technically an inverse correlation, right?
