28 Oct
1998
28 Oct
'98
12:01 p.m.
On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Pete Joules wrote:
> > Seams to be an attitude of all management - bann whatever
> > you don't undestand
>
> I think the attitude of many companies in the UK is "if we wanted to
give
Indeed. Too bad people must always abuse a privelege
Let me add a little perspective to this.
Say you ran a company, and being a good collector and occasional
dumpster
diver, you had a policy that anything broken could be
taken home by
employees if the company decided they didn't want to fix it. So the
hacker employees are happy because they get some nice stuff they can
fix
and use in their spare time. But what happens when
employees start
intentionally breaking things, or worse, pulling small parts out of
equipment to make it look broke, so they can then take it home and
replace
the missing fuse or chip? I think that is why you have
the rather
seemingly unreasonable policies about discard equipment.
> I think with the modern ideas about environmentally friendly disposal
of
Judging from the labels on dumpsters, this has already happened.
"Do not play in or around dumpster"
Until one loathesome scavenger cuts a finger off on some particularly
sharp piece of metal and sues the owner, the trash company, the maker
of
the trash container for not making it so they could get
inside in the
first place, etc. (at least in the U.S.)
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