Provided they follow it up with a “but I will find the answer and let you know.”
And then do so.
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To be fair - it does take a special class of idiot to really f**k up a Mac these days. Windows desktops seem to do it all by themselves.
Disclaimer: I come from a Solaris / Linux background, have a Mac as my “daily driver” and haven’t used Windows in any great amount since Windows95. So things may have changed significantly since.
No, Microsoft is still producing Windows.
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wharrafak? Procuremet is actually replying to my procurement requests I put in three months ago???
Has Hell frozen over yet?
This kind of thing pisses me off as you never know where you are with our Procurement dept - they don’t bother to answer email queries. I’m so pissed at them that I direct lusers directly to them when lusers be asking about when software X and laptop Y will be available…
Same for finances… somehow our finances are royally screwed and we can’t pay our suppliers, yet HR still is appointing new people (see my previous rant).
Time I skedaddle out of here pronto.
A lot have changed, but my take on that matter is; “use what you are comfortable with”. If it is a computer with Windows, OSX or any flavour of nix, it pretty much can do anything the others can. Maybe some software don’t work here or there, but there are no big difference any more. Also the possibility to fark something up has nothing to do with OS any more, it all comes down to the user.
and that should be no surprise here
You want to play games? Then use Windows. Graphic artist? A Mac is probably better. Want to do geeky hacker stuff? Should probably go with *nix. Want to look at porn? Any of the three will do. 
Plan 9 would work.
And do make use of your browser’s incognito/stealth mode when browsing rumpypumpy stuff… but do keep in mind most firewalls will make a note of said visits to said fornicating sites if they don’t block it…
No, by all means - call a meeting about the issues with $payroll_software, one of which I’ve given you a workaround and the other I had no idea existed until you told me this morning. No, just because said workaround doesn’t work on $luser’s_PC does not mean it “isn’t a fix”. Yes, I got $luser’s_PC working. Yes, I used the same workaround.
Also today…
I was looking into an intermittent problem that surfaces every couple of months on Friday that involves a (remote) printerer going on strike by spitting out an entire ream of garbage-laden paper, then going dark on the network. Power-cycling etc doesn’t help. Issue still occurs on two replacement printerers. So I changed IP addresses on the printerer serverer in case there was something weird going on over there, got the guy to plug it in and it actually comes up, so changed the static IP on the printerer too. Redirected all queues except the critical one back to this printerer and made it very clear that we are going through a process of elimination to find the issue. This afternoon a shotgun email is sent by $luser’s manager, copying in $luser, $senior_manager and my boss asking if we are any closer to a permanent fix.
Asshats.
Oooh. Someone got busted!
I prefer Macs, but I can’t justify one for work even to myself, much less well enough to present to my management. I personally favor cross-platform solutions, but having that one guy who insists on running a nonstandard OS as his daily driver is frustrating.
If I had one I’d probably be in an RDC, VNC, Telnet or SSH sessions most of the day anyway, kind of like today. I tend to use Windows as terminal emulator and Office machine…
Of course, the Mac is a *nix. More able to call itself ‘unix’ than Linux, for example. 
The graphic artist thing is mostly a hangover from the 90s/early 00s as far as I can tell when Windows was honestly really bad at some important things that designers care about (color matching, typography, running Adobe apps) but there’s a lot less to differentiate these days, especially as Adobe has apparently decided to run poorly on all OSs.
(As an aside, I would totally not be surprised if Adobe tried pushing their own Linux or BSD derived OS as the ‘primary’ way to run the Creative Studio apps and made Windows and Mac OS 2nd tier clients. There’ve been rumors of this years ago, and it’d almost make sense to think they’d have the hubris to try this. No idea if it’d work, of course.)
To drive this point home: OS X is Certified UNIX. It’s more UNIX than you’ll get pretty much anywhere else. Linux probably won’t ever be able to make the same claim.
The graphic artist thing is mostly a hangover from the 90s/early 00s as far as I can tell when Windows was honestly really bad at some important things that designers care about (color matching, typography, running Adobe apps) but there’s a lot less to differentiate these days, especially as Adobe has apparently decided to run poorly on all OSs.
This is true, but Apple tends to have better and more consistent displays than you’ll see from Windows laptop manufacturers and that makes a big difference. Obviously if you’re using a desktop display (either on a desktop computer or plugged into a laptop) that goes away - until you get to the PC all-in-ones vs. iMac (Retina or otherwise)
I tend to hedge my bet on this as I can never remember if they kept up that certification, which as I understand only applies to a specific version. I’ve heard it’s an extremely rough process to get certified.
True again… I guess it’s a time-to-research thing. If you like Macs it’s a shorter process to dot he research when you need a new machine to figure out what’s good and what isn’t.
Just because I sit near the printerer/scannerer doesn’t mean that I know how to use it. My job is to make sure that it works, not teach you numpties how to use the gear. So STOP STARING AT ME and buzz off!
Dear $Management
Resources can be anything, from a lowly pen to a state-of-the-fart craptop.
Resources also include human beings (sometimes called lusers), software and so on. Resources are objects which a company uses to achieve its goals.
Now, if $HR appoints “resources” - humans - and the company cannot supply said resources (humans) with resources (laptops, software etc) then what will happen?
Now sod off, I’m totally pissed off. Asking me to download cracked copies of $software just isn’t on. Because you did NOT PLAN AHEAD.
Why couldn’t you take said salary of said resource (human salary) for two or three months, and use that to purchase resources (software, laptop etc) BEFORE appointing a new person?
Poor form, poor form.
As for me, I’m planning to get the hell out of here.
Now sod off, kthanxbai.
Do they have any idea what could happen to the entire company if you did this?
I don’t think they do realize.
You should probably tell them, in writing.
“I was asked on by to acquire software by unofficial means which could put The Company at risk of legal action. blah blah blah blah blah.”
Bonus points if you expand this out to a couple paragraphs, then leave the blah blah blah part in at the end. Companies love things in writing that say they messed up.
Especially when you use email.