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# Nightmares of tech past
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2014/02/nightmares_of_tech_past/
- Published: 2014-02-17T20:45:49.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T16:11:44.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: corporate culture, corporate life, IT, kit

Every time I think a proper job would be nice again…

> I remember a grey slab I was issued by the tech quartermasters when I started my last proper job, packed with software designed to process ideas and thoughts into grey, bullet-pointed entropy. Then I was given a “smart” phone to match. A phone so bad, it allegedly destroyed the electronics in one of my colleagues’ car when he plugged it into to its USB port.

…[something reminds me](http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OpenfindsMindsConversations/~3/QKpP%5FvOOrok/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) why it wouldn’t.