SPQR

 - Legionaire Caius Bonus, proceed to talk with your centurion in order to know how to get your battle equipment.
- Sir, yes, Sir
- Don't forget to fullfill the form in which it's specified your bank account number
- In order to earn  my pay, sir?
- No, in order for you to pay your equipment.
- ¿Excuse me?
- Excused you are. Get moving.


I don't know if you already know it, but in ancient Rome legionaires had to pay their own battle equipment (I hope at a nice price). In a consular legion of about 5.000 men this made that there was a different equipment level among soldiers, getting grouped by their own social categories. The ones known as Velites were those poorly armoured because of economic questions and used to be, for the same reason, the ones who died first.


Today it's not usual to have a soldier equipment in good condition at home besides of the one in your profile of Call of Duty, but we have laptops and other tech gadgets. As I commented (via IA) time ago, home channel represents the main sales channel today as a difference with some years ago when the corporative channel was the largest one. So, the laptop I can buy today at a not very expensive price could be better or more powerful that the one a IT-Technician uses. Where is this taking us?

This takes us to a Citrix study (some of their comments can be read here ) in which it's stated the trend that IT workers are following in using their laptops (their OWN laptops, I mean) to work more comfortabily. This is, obviously, in some environments and with some usaurs, a potential huge risk for security, but in other more flexible environments it's a situation you can see in many ways:
Worker: Nice, I can use my laptop where I have everything I need
Worker: Mmmm, very clever they are... They'll make me work from home...
Company: Nice, one laptop I don't have to buy.
Company: Ough! He will steal my data! For sure!

I think that everybody has to work in a way that is comfortable and with the appropiate equipment, but I feel it's not fair that a company obligued their employees to bring their own laptops as a usual work equipment.

Then, it happens what it happens:
- Legionaire Caius Bonus, why are you wearing that Metallica t-shirt?
- Sir, because it's the heaviest armour I could afford, sir.
- ¡Go now clean latrines!

Had you ever find yourselves in such a situation?