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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Many_Examination955 on 2024-10-29 12:11:23+00:00.

I was the IT head of a medium sized company. I was configuring an Apache server on Ubuntu when my boss walked past and asked me what that weird ‘skin’ was. I told him that I was running a server on Ubuntu. My boss told me that we don’t use that Linux stuff here and told me to use Windows.

I had quite a bit of control over the finances of the company with a company credit card. Most of us were issued with a company managed Android phones.

Now, Android OS is a Linux distribution, and this was during the 2022 tech boom when you could walk into a new tech job within a week.

I bought 20+ new iPhone’s to comply with my bosses disdain for Linux. He questioned me a couple of weeks later, after I had already opened and configured the iPhone’s. I told him, frankly, that Android phones actually use a Linux kernel like Ubuntu. He told me that he “enacted a policy exempting Android phones” and made the intern list those iPhone’s on eBay.

He had to take quite a hit on the sales as we had to list it as used.