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TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

But I let the rest go to the landfill because, while I know a lot of that crap has some value today, there was so much of it and I simply didn’t have time to catalog everything and put it up for sale on behalf of the company.

I don’t get this. Wouldn’t such old hardware be ridiculously cheap to buy in bulk and classify at your own pace? There’s probably people who would pay for getting it off your hands and classify it themselves.

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ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
There were two problems:

I didn’t have the space to store all that stuff while I catalog it. There was 3 roomfuls of it, honestly.

I’m not interested in sifting through old computer stuff, much less taking photos of the items, pricing them, listing them on eBay, then packaging them and shipping them. Someone who enjoys old computers would already find this tedious benedictine work and I don’t.

I did tell my company they should hire a college student in the summer to do it, but here’s the thing: only people my age know what most of those things were, and all the people my age I know - including me - have much higher paying jobs and don’t want to be doing that.

So in the end, my company decided to reclaim the space and get rid of it all.
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- TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Such a shame, but thank you for replying with additional context.
  
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