>
>On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Pete Joules wrote:
>
>> > Seams to be an attitude of all management - bann whatever
>> > you don't undestand
>>
>> I think the attitude of many companies in the UK is "if we wanted to
give
Indeed. Too bad people must always abuse a privelege
>
>Let me add a little perspective to this.
>
>Say you ran a company, and being a good collector and occasional
dumpster
>diver, you had a policy that anything broken could be taken home by
>employees if the company decided they didn't want to fix it. So the
>hacker employees are happy because they get some nice stuff they can
fix
>and use in their spare time. But what happens when employees start
>intentionally breaking things, or worse, pulling small parts out of
>equipment to make it look broke, so they can then take it home and
replace
>the missing fuse or chip? I think that is why you have the rather
>seemingly unreasonable policies about discard equipment.
>
>> I think with the modern ideas about environmentally friendly disposal
of
Judging from the labels on dumpsters, this has already happened.
"Do not play in or around dumpster"
>
>Until one loathesome scavenger cuts a finger off on some particularly
>sharp piece of metal and sues the owner, the trash company, the maker
of
>the trash container for not making it so they could get inside in the
>first place, etc. (at least in the U.S.)
>
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