Accepting a 3 year old scratched and beaten PowerBook as my "new" dev machine. Especially when my personal, 4 year old one is as powerful but with double the disk space (SSD) and RAM... Then of course the new guys just joining actually do get new out of the box devices just as we're accepting that it's just not how the company works... I guess that's the bane of doing dev in a company that does resourcing as it's main focus thereby never understanding what's needed by us developers and why it is, or rather should be, different from the rest of the company.

That happened to me at one of my old jobs. You will get a new macbook pro .. cool I thought ... There was more hair being the keys of the keyboard than I have on my head, which is not much to be fair like bit still ....

I had the same issue. I did the following (also it was a Windows PC, which I have no qualms about saying, Windows is garbage)...

- Started recording the time I spent either waiting or fixing the machine or software (turned out to be over 20% of my day)
- Presented these numbers to my team lead. Told him I would not be using this machine any more and I would use my personal.
- Informed him that I would be billing the company for the depreciation on my personal machine.

Then when a “new”ish MacBook came up I told him “I’m going to take that”.

Since he knew I was serious he did not give any pushback.

All-in-all it was a great plan with no drawbacks. But the company I worked for also wasn’t entirely incompetent to the needs to developer, so that helped.