I have spent a lot of my life scavenging old tech others have lost the use for. A couple months ago I picked up a projector I can hook up to a laptop to watch movies. That's the biggest/nicest I've taken from work.
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I'm amazed how many people are thieves. I don't mean that in a judgemental way. It's just so different to how I love my life. I'm somewhat taken aback by the comments about what people have stolen.
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2 couches. Still have one of em
just a bunch of floppy disks and recordable CDs.
I also wanted to take home a 386 PC that was rotting in the closet, but I missed that, tho that machine was massive.
edit: this was recently
Many times over the years. Just yesterday I stole a brand new cordless mouse, because I was using a cheap shitty chinese one at home.
Sharpies.
An ADSL modem after work upgraded to fibre, I think that's about it. They probably would've given it if I asked anyway.
Loads pf unwanted forgotten tech
I work in IT, I have a tendency to “decommission’ hardware so it can be “recycled”
Through this method I have several enterprise switches, a home server, several very nice laptops.
I worked for a company that got bought out, but the field office had some uncounted inventory. By the time the buyers got to it, the inventory matches their spreadsheet exactly.
Their spreadsheet.