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Re:The Cost of Avoiding Sensitive Questions by jakelazaroff on Monday December 16, 2019 @12:31AM (#21801004)
> I straight up just walked over to his cube, unplugged his keyboard and threw it in the trash and told him “Go tell IT you need a new keyboard.”

I’m not sure whether you’re proud of this story, but that is an extreme overreaction. What grown adult throws away a keyboard (company property!) rather than having a conversation with someone? Did you also go around removing the doorknobs to all the rooms this person went into?

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Re:The Cost of Avoiding Sensitive Questions by anilakar on Monday December 16, 2019 @05:31AM (#21802120)
Employees don't usually value hardware they didn't pay for. I've seen people intentionally banging their old laptops against the table to break the HDD and consequently get a new, faster computer.

I'm also guilty. A certain easily-upset micromanager sourced a box of one dollar second hand HP keyboards that are pretty much unusable, so I've been shipping them out with other hardware, forgetting them at customer premises and so on.

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Re:The Cost of Avoiding Sensitive Questions by jacobush on Monday December 16, 2019 @05:44AM (#21802172)
If they are actually unusable, it's not the same. You are then ridding the company of a liability.
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