sad to report...

[Patrick Finnegan]

Scott Stevens declared on Thursday 08 December 2005 21:10:
> On Tue, 06 Dec 2005 19:05:24 -0500
>
> John Boffemmyer IV <john_boffemmyer_iv at boff-net.dhs.org> wrote:
> > my company that i work for has just decommissioned an hp9000
> > system  for scrap and 11 dec vt420's circa 1991, unopened, with
> > keyboards.  they did not give option on taking them or buying
> > them =/ don't you hate it when the bean counters get involved
> > because they  think the scrappers will not be jerks and resell
> > what they get  instead of doing their jobs and just scrapping it
> > and keeping it from  the employees for personal use?
> > -John Boffemmyer IV
>
> I watched skids of Sparc hardware go out at a company I worked at
> around Y2K in a similar fashion.  They had a 'contract' with the
> scrapper, they said, and 'couldn't play favorites'.  There is a
> 'corporate culture' at some places where you're seen as a lunatic
> for even suggesting you might have an interest in 'that old
> stuff.'

And that's one of the reasons I work for a university.

Pat
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