8 Dec
2005
8 Dec
'05
9:10 p.m.
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.'