Makes 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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