Not returning things to ex-employer=dick move?

[slackerinabox]

wait, if you have a ton of KBs and Mice, why did you take it home in the first place?

I don't like using my own things for work use... In prior work lives I did, but I've had a personal laptop stolen at a work conference (their obvious reply was "you should have requested a laptop from us, which was true).... A personal tripod and microphone of mine is also floating around somewhere because it was lost between departments.. I request gear that I need, I don't find anything weird about that.

 

[imagoon]

I don't like using my own things for work use... In prior work lives I did, but I've had a personal laptop stolen at a work conference (their obvious reply was "you should have requested a laptop from us, which was true).... A personal tripod and microphone of mine is also floating around somewhere because it was lost between departments.. I request gear that I need, I don't find anything weird about that.

As IT... I wish there were more people like you. I hate supporting other peoples crap.

 

[moshquerade]

dick move confirmed

 

[venkman]

I don't like using my own things for work use... In prior work lives I did, but I've had a personal laptop stolen at a work conference (their obvious reply was "you should have requested a laptop from us, which was true).... A personal tripod and microphone of mine is also floating around somewhere because it was lost between departments.. I request gear that I need, I don't find anything weird about that.

... it is a $10 kb and mouse ...

 

[ShawnD1]

... it is a $10 kb and mouse ...

In my university, you jack a keyboard and mouse from another station if your station doesn't have a mouse and keyboard.

I worked in a chem lab like this as well. I was disconnecting a keyboard from a computer so I could connect to the computer that operates the NMR. The IT guy saw me and asked me to stop doing that and said I should fill out some form to request a new keyboard. I filled out the report like he asked but I moved the keyboard to another computer anyway. I left that job a few months later and we still didn't have a keyboard for that freaking computer. This is how quality control works in a drug lab, folks. We can't even run the instruments because we don't have keyboards!

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It seems even more stupid that it's a $10 keyboard we can't have but we have no problems blowing thousands of dollars on HPLC grade water. This would be equivalent to saying it's ok to spend money on gasoline for your car but replacing the oil requires a 20 page form and will happen some time in the next 3 years if you're lucky. Why don't they have a giant stack of spare keyboards and mice in the supply room? We're hardcore enough to have a piping system dedicated to just acetone but we can't have spare keyboards? wtf?