How do I convince my boss to buy me a new computer?

[notfred]

I work in a fairly small office, doing graphic design. Most of our production work is done on Macs. Currently, I've got a beige g3 266. It's slow as hell. Any tips on getting me a new G4? Anyone in here convince thier boss to upgrade thier machine?

 

[SnowPunk98]

Maybe you should ask first?

 

[OrByte]

Just go into his/her office with enough justification and ask.

As long as you can justify it it shouldn't be a problem.

 

[OpalFrost98GT]

You could....ummmmm accidentally by pure chance ....ummmmmm....hehehe...."SPILL" water into the Power Supply......Just a thought.....

 

[stso]

just tell him that your system is too slow to get the job done ......

 

[Russ]

<< Anyone in here convince thier boss to upgrade thier machine? >>



I had no trouble at all convincing mine to upgrade me to dual TBird 1.4's.

Russ, NCNE

 

[Colt45]

tell him you would be more efficent/productive if you werent watching an hourglass all day..

 

[cyclistca]

Just send him/her a letter







Ok sick joke

 

[Phoenix15]

You know how my boss was convinced? She sat behind my desk one day to look at a website I wanted her to see. Her exact quote

"Damn, this thing is slow."

Of course I took the initivate to point out the falling prices of hardware

Now I have a MP, mobo, ram, case, video card and hard drive on the way

Woot!

 

[EagleKeeper]

Russ

When will you start whining for a quad setup?


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notfred


If you can document your increased productivity by having a faster system, and possible trickle down improvements, then put it in front of your boss.

 

[PG]

My work computer is a PII 400 with a Diamond Fire GL 1000 Pro video card. Don't let the name fool you, it's over 3 years old and only has 8 MB of memory. Well, sometimes it does.
Sometimes it boots up and says it's a 4 MB card and I get strange white snow on my screen. I reboot until it comes up OK.
I have to run Pro/E on this computer once in a while, and I use Solid Works quite a bit.
Once a few years ago I had to open a huge IGES assemly file in Solid Works. It took half a day. :Q

 

[777joee]

You could always spill a coke in or on it. Damn I hate that when that happens..............

 

[SinNisTeR]

show him/her some leg

 

[rutchtkim]

Just be honest, and don't destroy the machine. It dosent take an idiot to find out what happened to it.
Goodluck

 

[erikistired]

russ. hehe. funny guy. but, did you have to ask her more than once?

i pulled the parts off the shelf and built myself a faster pc when i needed one, i guess working in a small business that builds pcs and being in charge of the shop is a good thing sometimes.

~erik

 

[SunnyD]

Break it.

SunnyD