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Does your corporation throw away useful stuff? How often and how much?
nfmax:
It's when you see stuff you have personally developed (and been granted a patent for) being trashed, because the whole project is dropped as it doesn't fit in with the product line roadmap of the latest manager to be rotated in for a two year stint, that it really grates!
Warhawk:
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--- Quote from: Wojciech Krolopp on May 24, 2020, 09:46:31 am ---Then I sold those i7 and made some neat profit. Code monkeys did not even notice :-DD Engineering salary is a joke anyway so might as well make some money on the side.
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Really hope this is just a bad trolling attempt, and not you confessing to crimes on the internet.
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I am sure this is trolling. Especially with this nickname. Nobody is that stupid. :)
Warhawk:
--- Quote from: james_s on May 24, 2020, 04:14:01 am ---
--- Quote from: Mr. Scram on May 24, 2020, 12:59:06 am ---Informal agreements are great but leave you vulnerable when the shit hits the fan. Suddenly no one knows about any agreement and your job is on the line. Someone may be looking for an easy and cheap way to get rid of you at some point. Getting rehired after getting caught stealing isn't going to be fun either. It's a devil's dilemma as simply throwing out good quality kit feels criminal in its own right. I'm not just talking about the hoarder's, I mean collector's point of view but also from the point of view of a society with what ultimately are limited resources. Tax rules do seem to encourage this kind of behaviour, unfortunately.
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Of course that could happen, but life is full of calculated risks, I chose to take that risk and it paid off. If they wanted to get rid of me they wouldn't have to accuse me of stealing, my state has at-will employment, for better or worse the employee or the employer can terminate the relationship at any time for any reason. So yeah, I could get fired for "stealing" things or I could get fired for saying the wrong thing to the wrong person or because they don't like the color of shirt I'm wearing or the way I comb my hair. I'm not opposed to taking a few risks to acquire interesting things. Many people risk a lot more for income of one form or another, there are quite a few jobs where a significant number of people are killed, worst case for me was getting fired, which never happened.
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Hiring and firing people in the U.S. is insanely easy. Here in Europe It is extremely difficult to get rid of an employee after he or she finishes the probation period (typ. 3-6 months). Even dealing with a bad performer is not easy. Investigating the attendance system, internet usage or proving you took a pencil home is a dirty way to do it.
Rerouter:
Depends on the business, my dads old company had a rule that if it was in the dumpster until an hour after open of business the next day it was up for grabs, the truck would usually come the hour after that, and it was there compromise in case anything important accidentally got binned, someone would notice it and report it.
They also had them sign a waiver that if they wanted to be insured against injuries while rummaging they needed to have a confined space permit first, which I don't exactly agree with, but I see why they implemented it.
My own work doesn't really every throw out anything of value, its usually 3rd hand or entry level gear, and when things break we repair it, well past where the sunken cost fallacy begins to apply.
My mothers old work was odd, they kept buying good things then forgetting where they stored them so they bought them again, led to a few fun toys when I was young, don't know the whole story about them though.
c64:
--- Quote from: Warhawk on May 24, 2020, 11:48:59 am ---
--- Quote from: c64 on May 24, 2020, 12:13:12 am ---Tell us the location of your dumpster :)
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I've just measured on googlemaps and it is 16,309.98km from Sydney Central Train station. ::)
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I'm in Melbourne LOL
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