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Thanks for the links. I wonder if it’s entirely that, or if management fears that staff might somehow gain a benefit by taking obsolete hardware.
by gvurrdon 3y ago
Thanks for the links.
I wonder if it’s entirely that, or if management fears that staff might somehow gain a benefit by taking obsolete hardware.
- bombcar 3y agoThere’s a temptation that is removed by destroying or selling to a liquidator - and it removes any chance of apparent favoritism: Steve got to take home that twelve CPU rack mount and I just got an old mouse. But even more common in large companies is that it’s all on leases and goes back to the leasing company to be liquidated on eBay; you can always find miles of three or five year old gear there.
- GhostWhisperer 3y agoebay being the access normaliser to this equipment doesn't sound too bad it substitutes the internal network/hierarchy bias for a mostly monetary one
- GhostWhisperer 3y agomaybe there's no point for us to argue over the decisions of management