The Daring Dufas wrote:
(snip)
The tanks could be for an industrial steam cleaner. The lights could be
for a foreign or industrial market. The value of your score depends on
what anyone is willing to pay for it. I see tens of thousands of dollars
worth of perfectly useful functioning equipment hit the scrap
yard only to meet the shredder. It's heart breaking, much like seeing
a cute puppy being euthanized at an animal shelter. 8-)


I dunno about it rising to PUPPY level, especially with all the animal
lovers on here. But yeah, it is sad. And certainly not very 'green'. For
the sake of my blood pressure, I have to work real hard to not let it
get to me.

At the place where I work, funded by your tax dollars, the computer
support techs and the inventory support techs don't do a real good job
of keeping stuff in sets. As any of you who have been anywhere near the
secondary market know, stuff is worth a LOT more when it has all the
widgets and cords (much less the driver disks and owners manuals) with
it. I have protested to upper management multiple times about it, only
to be told 'it costs too much to do that' and 'sit down and shut up'. An
example that will mean something to RACS- we just sent out several
skid-sized cubes marked as scrap metal, consisting of server rack rails.
RACS people would call them drawer glides from hell. They are
server-brand specific, and retail for 100-150 bucks a pair. Full
extension, 24+ inches, often ball-bearing, rated for 100 lbs +, etc.
Each pair has been extended maybe 20 times in its service life, so
essentially brand new. I kept telling the techs- keep the rails with
the server when you de-install it. 'No, that would take too much time'.
So now, the other agency or school or auction customer who ends up with
the server has to go out and buy another set of rails. I estimate each
of the skid-sized cubes has at least 100 pairs of these rails in them. I
marked the boxes as well as I could, in the hope that the place that
passes out or sells this stuff will store it INSIDE, and that the
customers walking through screening for free stuff, or for stuff to bid
on, will recognize it for what it is, and it will stay out of the
shredder. All you can do is all you can do.

(Stuff like this is why I don't say exactly who I work for. There
probably aren't six people in my agency who use Usenet any more, but if
Google ever gets their search thingie fixed, and one of my managers
searches on the agency name or my name, they would likely get ****ed.)

--
aem sends...