I work for a multi billion multi national medical technology company at their office in central london. On day one after i got the job they gave me a brand spanking new top of the line macbook pro worth over £3k. I asked them for a bag for it and the IT guy who gave it to me looked like i slapped him in the face.

"Am i supposed to walk around central london with 3k of macbook in a plastic shopping bag?"

He produced some weird fabric envelope thing from a cupboard.

Luckily i'm sad enough to turn up to work with my own laptop in my own bag so i did have a bag but he had no way of knowing that

[–] MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Do you get to choose it with a budget or they buy whatever cheap, uncomfortable thing was available? I'd much rather use my own equipment if I'm gonna be using it everyday.

[–] IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 day ago

In our company we (at least IT department) get to choose our own bags (within reason). I have some generic lenovo backpack they had laying around when I started and it's decent enough. Maybe a bit smaller side on what I'd like, but it carries my laptop, headset, random cables, power supply, notepad and stuff like that just fine. And it doesn't have any kind of visible logo on it at all, unless you count the Think(r) colour scheme on zipper tabs.

And it's also a security thing. Should someone steal my backpack it does not have any logos to pinpoint which company it belongs unless I've left my lanyard in the pocket with my rfid-tag. And of course if you open the laptop it has AD forest name on there, so it's pretty trivial to figure out, but at least I'm not advertising 'steal my things if you want access to this company' everywhere.

[–] Damage@feddit.it 1 points 2 days ago

My company has to pay for my steel tip shoes, yet they don't buy them branded