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techrecoveryMakes you wonder about how professional your co-workers are, when something like this happens:
Last week I was informed that the Marketing department is going to get rid of all the older Macs in the department and upgrade a bunch of people to all-new systems. So I take an inventory of systems and parts, and I go get two of the machines and pull out the DVD-RW drives so that when they dispose of the machines they won't be disposing of practically-brand-new drives that they can actually do something with. At 5:30 on Friday I'm still in the middle of drive switching and doing wipeout/reinstall OS on the machines so they'll be all secure and ready to go out the door. The two DVD-RWs are sitting on my desk, one atop the other.
Today I come in, pick up the top drive and swap it into another old Mac, so that I can use the Tiger install DVD to do the wipeout/reinstall. Except it won't go into the drive sled on the Mac, because it has 2 little black screws in each side. Because it's a CD drive that's been pulled from one of the HP desktop machines the company uses.
Yeah.
Someone just walked right the f*ck into my cubicle and took a DVD-RW drive that didn't belong to them, installed it in their own computer and left their old unit in its place.
It's just unbelievable to me that people would do such a thing, but I guess I shouldn't really be surprised when someone named Bob puts a lunch box into the fridge that says BOB'S LUNCH on it, and then comes back at 1 p.m. and someone who's not Bob has eaten it all. Still, these people are f*cking barbarians, and not in a good way either. Shit!!
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Last week I was informed that the Marketing department is going to get rid of all the older Macs in the department and upgrade a bunch of people to all-new systems. So I take an inventory of systems and parts, and I go get two of the machines and pull out the DVD-RW drives so that when they dispose of the machines they won't be disposing of practically-brand-new drives that they can actually do something with. At 5:30 on Friday I'm still in the middle of drive switching and doing wipeout/reinstall OS on the machines so they'll be all secure and ready to go out the door. The two DVD-RWs are sitting on my desk, one atop the other.
Today I come in, pick up the top drive and swap it into another old Mac, so that I can use the Tiger install DVD to do the wipeout/reinstall. Except it won't go into the drive sled on the Mac, because it has 2 little black screws in each side. Because it's a CD drive that's been pulled from one of the HP desktop machines the company uses.
Yeah.
Someone just walked right the f*ck into my cubicle and took a DVD-RW drive that didn't belong to them, installed it in their own computer and left their old unit in its place.
It's just unbelievable to me that people would do such a thing, but I guess I shouldn't really be surprised when someone named Bob puts a lunch box into the fridge that says BOB'S LUNCH on it, and then comes back at 1 p.m. and someone who's not Bob has eaten it all. Still, these people are f*cking barbarians, and not in a good way either. Shit!!
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Date: 2006-12-03 07:08 pm (UTC)Do you have any recourse, or are you stuck with useless CD drive?
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Date: 2006-12-03 07:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-03 07:32 pm (UTC)The other thing I can do is act like a little bitch and refuse to do anybody any favors anymore - no more Mr. Nice Guy, since I'm obviously going to be treated like a supply closet where anybody can steal anything they want, they can all go f*ck themselves. I don't wanna do that but I would if I had to.
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Date: 2006-12-03 07:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-03 08:04 pm (UTC)People at my place will cannibalize the machines of departed people, but they aren't insane enough to raid the IT room. Apparently people think I'm crazy, or something....
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Date: 2006-12-03 08:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-03 08:23 pm (UTC)Level of creativity is up to you, but wedging the IDE bus could make it very hard to track down.
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Date: 2006-12-03 09:09 pm (UTC)If its not too many just take the drive back and leave a note with "sorry, but I needed this drive and it was just sitting out" and don't sign it with a name. When they come looking for their drive, hand back their original one.
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Date: 2006-12-03 09:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-03 09:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-03 09:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-03 10:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-03 10:10 pm (UTC)Actually since it was replaced with what was obviously a CD-ROM drive freshly yoinked from one of our HP minitowers, I'm thinking it's in some machine nearby. Just donno which one yet.
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Date: 2006-12-03 10:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-03 10:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-04 01:36 am (UTC)For all we know, someone in Marketing had already made a deal to swap those drives or machines for something useful that now they won't get.
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Date: 2006-12-04 02:07 am (UTC)He wrote a note that was priceless. It read: "To whomever had the Chinese food for lunch yesterday. I really hope you enjoyed it."
Of course, the implied "You f*ker" was right there, but geeeeeeeeez.
Pens and *normal* office supplies are one thing. Drives are another.
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Date: 2006-12-04 02:45 am (UTC)----
So I take an inventory of systems and parts, and I go get two of the machines and pull out the DVD-RW drives so that when they dispose of the machines they won't be disposing of practically-brand-new drives that """they"" can actually do something with.
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Date: 2006-12-04 05:16 am (UTC)Unmarked bag.
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Date: 2006-12-04 06:01 am (UTC)Or just short the 12V and ground pins on the back of the drive. This is easier to reverse if you need to use the drive again later.
As far as the lunch, fill the box with a bunch of spring snakes. Or one of those light activated alarms (http://store.qkits.com/moreinfo.cfm/FK245).
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Date: 2006-12-04 07:59 am (UTC)Of course, officially it's to be proactive when workstation hardware dies, so
staffmanagement don't have to waste their valuable time reporting a busted drive or card.I don't suppose your cubicle is covered by security cameras or webcams...?
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Date: 2006-12-04 08:30 am (UTC)Looks like '"""they""' did something with it, all right.
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Date: 2006-12-04 08:34 am (UTC)Er, you just admitted it to us: Still, these people are f*cking barbarians, and not in a good way either.
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Date: 2006-12-04 08:37 am (UTC)Not a best bet, as you due to the discs being clamped and spun at clearances that vary by make, it needs really coarse sand to make reliable contact, and the coarser the sand, the more visible.
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Date: 2006-12-04 09:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-04 11:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-04 11:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-05 02:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-05 04:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-05 11:36 pm (UTC)It would be very tempting to track them down and, when they are not around, swap several bits from their office with useless crap.
Damn that would annoy me