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I died a little inside today.

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tom66:
My workplace had a room full of WEEE scrap. My boss said, "anything you like you can take". I ended up with a load of graphic VFDs, LCDs, dev boards etc. plus a power drill and electric screwdriver, which both had dead batteries (just needed reforming with high pulse current, easily done.)

megahz:
That sucks, and they didnt even auction it?

staxquad:

--- Quote from: Randall W. Lott on April 04, 2013, 02:33:22 pm ---My workplace just sent hundreds of electronics products to be destroyed.  They didn't want me taking any of it, even though most of it was working.  There were huge power supplies, tons of rack equipment in re-usable cases, test equipment, PC's, UPS's, fiber optic equipment, and much more.

What a tease.

--- End quote ---

Would have cost you at least $40,000

for the new extension to where you live to house all that gear.

They're doing you a favour

free_electron:

--- Quote from: Randall W. Lott on April 04, 2013, 05:54:38 pm ---The thing is.. my company is a "non-profit".

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so , again : then it is written of as a loss... so as to reach zero profit at the end of the year.
it was bought with money , used, and there was a remainder ont he books -> scrap it and you can deduct it...

basics of bookkeeping...

Randall W. Lott:
I work at a laboratory operated by our state university.  I estimated $200,000+ of gear was being thrown out.

I'm not allowed to take pictures at work either, because hundreds of large companies send their equipment or use our facility to test for interoperability.  We apparently have about $50M of equipment.  Racks up to the ceiling full of equipment.

These items were decommissioned, so I can understand why they can't give away gear that was erased from the books.  My boss had me take a break from my PCB design to help load up the palettes, haha!

One of my co-workers had been able to take some things in the past, possibly by purchasing it for cheap.

Life is full of unfair situations.  This has been no exception.

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