>>105626475
this but for hardware. just basic device repair. the happiest day I've had at work recently was asking the Big Boss just how much janky shit I'm allowed to do, and he literally said something like "You're not getting new whole units until we have the money, and we're not allowed to order individual parts; so yeah, you can keep a stock for break and fix..."

meanwhile, gazing offscreen from the webcam at the big pile of "broken-ish" laptops any sane person would just consolidate parts between, a tune begins to play in my head
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC1u6kseetI

[spoiler]especially since everything's a dell and we've got a lot of desktops still, full of weird plastic trash ready to attack with irons and scalpels to fit extra fans and drives and shit before they're decommissioned entirely[/spoiler]

it's such a basic thing and anyone can do it, but being allowed to do it means a lot, okay? I like touching stuff and touching computer stuff is trivially easy, yet satisfying, yet never really allowed.