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Does your corporation throw away useful stuff? How often and how much?
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Zucca:
The sad part is when you want to be dishonest (garbage, ebay or whatever).
I still do not see a crime to take home garbage and then repair it or use it without harming anybody else (company or people).

I never did what brabus wrote, it will be just stupid. Sadly I can imagine stuff like this happens and it make me sad even more.
Brumby:
I once worked for an electronics retailer that would have products to be written off.  Previously, these items were just tossed into the skip bin, but these were sometimes raided.  On more than one occasion, the recovered, faulty items would find their way back through the front door for repair or replacement.

Once this action had been identified, a new procedure was put in place.  A representative from head office would have the list of items to be written off and would witness one of the staff physically destroy each item before ticking it off the list.

I know.  I was the one assigned to do the destruction on more than one occasion.  There was nothing left worth salvaging after that.
Marck:
“Obtaining” toys during decommissioning or hardware refresh is a fairly common thing.  Usually for taxation reasons or the simple fact that the cost of processing selling and administration will outstrip any profit to be had this equipment is disposed of to waste. 

I have never had a problem with my guys taking anything that was destined for a skip with a couple of simple rules. I hate stuff being wasted if someone wants it or can use it or can get a couple of extra bucks salvaging metals for recycling if they want to put in the effort instead of it going to land fill.

1. It never turns up on eBay or gum tree.

2. If your going to sell it for scrap don’t use company assets to transport it.  Keep your sneaky side profit well away from your work life.

3. Share the love.  If someone wants a particular item to put it to use for hobby or education let them have first option on it before you sell it for scrap weight.

4. Don’t take more than you really need because someone that ends up with half a dozen racks of hardware will no doubt end up selling it on gum tree or eBay.

5. And most importantly don’t steal it.  Just ask for it.  And that’s because on rare occasion for whatever reason some things have to follow traceable disposal.  And most importantly I might get a slap on the wrist for letting someone take a bit of old kit that was on its way to the bin but if I don’t know someone has taken it and someone has a cry about it all of a sudden it’s theft and that’s how people loose jobs



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Fred27:
Unfortunately this sort of mindless destruction goes on all the time. My brother used to have a removals and storage business. He had a publicly owned body pay him to store hundreds of (presumably excess) brand new printers they had bought. He stored them for a few years. Then they paid him to take them to a crusher and have them crushed - with one of their employees watching to make sure this happened. They were all boxed and unused. He couldn't persuade them to donate them to schools or anything. Maybe not quite as valuable or desirable as test gear, but a shocking and pointless waste all the same.
wraper:

--- Quote from: Zucca on May 25, 2020, 08:42:26 am ---The sad part is when you want to be dishonest (garbage, ebay or whatever).
I still do not see a crime to take home garbage and then repair it or use it without harming anybody else (company or people).

I never did what brabus wrote, it will be just stupid. Sadly I can imagine stuff like this happens and it make me sad even more.

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10 years ago fished out some disassembled phones from garbage bin and put them back together (they were replaced under warranty to customers, then scrapped). There was a guy who's job was taking them apart and throwing into bin. We no longer were allowed to take them since there was scandal in recent past when such phone was brought back to warranty repair, and apparently repair was made under warranty so manufacturer paid for repair and obviously got IMEI number in the report :palm:. To not have the same issue with ones which I fished out, I erased part of IMEI code on the label under battery cover. Though I guessed they possibly could be brought back under warranty if reception was dumb enough to accept them anyway by simply looking IMEI in the menu. That was my main concern so I gave/sold them only to people who I knew personally.
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