Timeline for Is it reasonable to request to temporarily keep a laptop after a postdoc contract has finished?
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| Feb 28, 2022 at 4:25 | comment | added | R.. GitHub STOP HELPING ICE | @enthu: You can have a decent new laptop in that price range. Certainly sufficient for what the OP needs it for anyway. | |
| Feb 26, 2022 at 21:43 | comment | added | enthu | +1 exactly what I was thinking about… A good used laptop in online stores with minimum configuration enough for text edits and answering messages from the journals may not exceed $200~$300. OP may return the previous laptop back to the institute and negotiate them or the supervisor to fund/co-fund a laptop for such temporary usage and return this too after finishing the papers. BTW in my opinion, as a postdoc with at least minimum wage, OP may afford to buy one for personal usage. Another option may be asking them to borrow a system at a laboratory or library nearby. | |
| Feb 25, 2022 at 22:57 | comment | added | EarlGrey | @manassehkatz-Moving2Codidact True, however a large organization should have in place some processes to deal with this (since it is not unlikely to have to deal with piles of old hardware). In one of the big departments I worked (large polytechnical school in Europe), the official written rule was "you can buy the laptop/desktop computer assigned to you for 50% of the price if younger than 4 years, for 100€ if older". Of course, each person could have only one computer assigned at a time, but when the project had money to buy new hardware ... you can imagine rapid turnover of computers... | |
| Feb 25, 2022 at 17:07 | comment | added | manassehkatz-Moving 2 Codidact | Money isn't really the issue. In a large organization it can actually be harder to deal with collecting the money than you might think, so I'd 100% understand them refusing that request. | |
| Feb 25, 2022 at 12:34 | history | edited | Ben | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 25, 2022 at 12:32 | comment | added | Aca Demic | They said no unfortunately. | |
| Feb 25, 2022 at 12:29 | history | edited | Ben | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 25, 2022 at 12:21 | history | answered | Ben | CC BY-SA 4.0 |