TRUE STORY - Happened today
Here's another true story from my company, a Web design shop. Happened yesterday.
The CEO, CTO and Sysadmin are all anti-Mac. So the Creative Director caved in and decided to go all-PC. His rationale: it's what consumers use to view the site, we need to standardize, and everyone is pressuring me.
So when two new designers came on board, they were given PCs. However, this then created a new problem, where half the dept had PCs and half Macs. They often couldn't work on the same files, or old files, without going out and buying new fonts, etc. The Creative Director is tearing his hair out.
The decision is made: everyone is going to standardize one way or the other. The designers are all crying out for Macs. They're trained on them, and prefer them. This is a week after Macworld, and everyone has seen the new G3s, one of the designers has bought one for home. The Creative Director then goes to the CTO and says "my department wants Macs, not PCs." CTO says: "they're too expensive." He logs on to the Apple Store. Sees that they're $1599. Says, "Okay, get them."
The designers immediately want to go out and buy the two new G3s. So they take their lunch hour off and go to J&R, pay for them with their own credit card, and carry them back on the subway. They get reimbursed on return. The whole office, CEO and CTO included, stop by to check them out; even the CEO grudgingly admits they're cool. The dept is now all-Mac, and will likely stay that way for a long time.
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