Had that at a couple of companies I worked for. Fairly normal. The company I work for at the moment shredded 15x new unused 16" i9 macbook pros a couple of months under the same guise
Just been informed my transistor lot is out for delivery via Herpes. Hopefully they won't throw it on my roof or something
Current corporate policy, they won't tell me why, just they won't sell to employees ATM. Might be due to change of company name, or the previous guy that did the scrap orders left & the replacement hates everyone, your guess is as good as mine.
I couldn't take all of the redundant kit anyway, as the scrap policy is for "personal use only", no selling/trading it on.
bd are you bidding on the second transistor lot?
David
When I worked for the ISD, the reasoning was pretty simple and clear: conflict of interest. As we were the ones who could condemn a bit of kit, there was obvious motive to condemn gear simply because we wanted it for ourselves or to sell.
As a result, we were required to submit an item or lot to the head warehouse manager, who would, if the item or lot passed scrutiny, put said item up on the monthly liquidation auction and we could
bid on it as could any other employee or licensed reseller or member of the public with a bidding permit, which process was dead-easy, and we as employees had to get the same permit.
Those fleet MacBook Pros present a clear
chain of custody and corporate sabotage/espionage concern: As the HDD cannot be
easily removed and destroyed separately, they are a
massive network security risk. The corporate image used to make them ready for use will contain a lot of confidential information about
how the corporate network is configured even if they've never been used... information which can easily be figured out and used by ne'er-do-wells to find exploits in the network.
Even if they were willing to pay an experienced tech to remove the SSD (presuming it is separate from the mainboard), then you have very easily circumvented
Chain of Custody concerns because the person doing the removal is a tech, not a bean-counter.
Bean-counters do not like this. They (well, some of them) will happily spend a afternoon pulling and counting HDD caddies and take them to the shredder; not so much watching a tech do the same thing.
EDIT: Remember too... a school district is a public service. Their mandate is to provide transparency and service to the public, so will have to put up with such complex surplus equipment liquidation procedures. A corporation is under no obligation to do so.mnem
Everything in corporate structure is about boiling things down to a procedure that any monkey can perform. That way almost any employee can be easily replaced by another monkey, and there's no need to pay anybody but management real money.