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HP ditches 15-minute wait time policy due to 'feedback' (www.theregister.com)
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[–] 202 points 2 years ago (14 children)

HP has been a shitty company for decades. Why do people still buy things from them? They are dead to me.

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  • [–] 54 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    I'm in IT. I get cold called by VAR trying to sell me HPE here and there. I tell them straight up I won't buy HP cause of their business practices.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    I don't deal with hardware much anymore, but I'd take Aruba over Cisco any day. But for everything else, yeah fuck HP.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    I worked briefly for Cisco because they acquired my company (a much smaller competitor) to help eliminate competition. The only good thing I can say about them is they gave me (and everybody else from this smaller company) two months' notice of the layoff and didn't have us escorted out of the building or anything.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    It'd be cooler if they did escort you out of the building but also paid 2 months tbh

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Well, I was WFH at the time and they didn't give me anything to do so it was effectively that anyway. And really they had given me almost no work to do for the four months prior to that - which of course is why I was not even the least bit surprised by the layoff. My severance was to the penny exactly what I would have gotten from unemployment, so it effectively meant I got unemployment benefits without having to pretend to look for work. Also, they randomly sent me a check for $6K that I have no idea what for (not PTO or sick time compensation) and I used it to buy a school bus. So overall I can't really hate them too much. Years later I found out my mother had thought I was working for Sysco (the food supply conglomerate) instead of Cisco.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It's my understanding their enterprise products are still good. It's the consumer products which suck

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    It's a company who makes them and their partners lots of money, any company you see pushing HP products is just as shady as them. They've been riding their brand recognition for at least a decade.

    Then right before their EOL's they push all their old stock for pennies and suddenly everyone has a HP product and they don't complain for the most part cause they got them dirt cheap.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    There is literally no good corporate computer manufacturer anymore. Dell, HP, Lenovo, all not good.

    There are decent companies for home laptops: system76, framework, etc...

    But they don't have the support infrastructure necessary for many corporate IT departments.

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