[geeks] Corporate waste...

Frank Van Damme frank.vandamme at student.kuleuven.ac.be
Sun Apr 6 04:21:06 CDT 2003


On Sunday 06 April 2003 00:33, R. Lonstein wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 04:34:41PM -0500, Thomas Gallaway wrote:
> 	[snip]
>
> > It was inbetween of construction trash so yes. There also
> > where boxes full with software and cut ethernet cables.
>
> 	[snip]
>
> I once experienced returning to my equipment storage at an offsite
> location to find that someone took advantage of contractors working on
> the floor to remove EVERYTHING of value (IBM and Compaq FRUs for the
> support contract I was on) from locked cabinets and leave the crap (of
> which there was plenty) along with the abused cabinets piled with the
> construction waste. I never found out what happened. It wouldn't
> surprise me if the stuff you found was not exactly meant to be thrown
> out but was conveniently moved along with the garbage.
>
> Either way, nice find.

Wow. Well, keep it quiet then. 


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