on getting the hand-me-down stuff

Here at work, some ways are a lot like what we have at home. The younger children always get the hand-me-downs stuff from the older siblings. More often than not, the younger siblings always envy the older ones since they always get the new ones. A few months ago, one of my teammates asked me if he could get a new PC with faster memory because it always troubles him when he's doing some documentation. I was sorry to tell him that the new PCs were intended for the senior engineers who were still using old PCs. Fortunately for him though, he didn't have to wait that long because in the following month, new PCs were allocated also to the new associates.