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Re: Asset Stickers
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Thu, 20 May 1999 16:30:31 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Eric Joslin writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Tom McDonald writes:
> > This just happened. I can't believe it.
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> Ugh. At a company I used to work for (well known, to users, ex-employees,
> current employees, and spectators for it's total idiocy), we used to get in • new
> desktop computers to put into various departments. The inventory controller
> would dutifully put an asset sticker on the back of the case, cross reference
> it with a sheet detailing the insides of the computer, and file it all away.
> Then he would turn it over to the Operations department, which would rip the
> machine open, cannabalise all the parts out from inside it, and replace them
> with inferior parts (especially if it was bound for another department).
I've seen that done too. Suddenly it's decided that someone else has more of a
need for some peripheral than someone else. But it's been my experience that
often hardware compatibility problems can develop when you split up and scatter
parts from working desktops amongst other desktops. Can't say much about it,
cuz I don't know much, but I've seen it in action. And suddenly, rather than
having 5 computers that work great, you've got 15 that are marginal :( Of
course, that could always be blamed on lack of hardware knowledge. But it's
much easier in many cases to replace the whole desktop, an idea which often
eluded, or for some reason seemed impractical to, the techs that once resided
here where I work.
> It was a wonderfully effective way of keeping track of all the company's cases
> and where they went, though. Thise cases, they cost money.
Oh yeah... tons o' cash them cases cost. Almost used one for a flower pot once.
I've got one I use for a doorstop at home too.
-Tom McD.
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| I can top that story. At a certain client, nameless, thanks, not my current one... someone nicked out the entire contents of a PC. Left the case. Hapless user tried to turn it on. Not much useful happened. Took a while for this user to figure out (...) (25 years ago, 20-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) <snip> Ugh. At a company I used to work for (well known, to users, ex-employees, current employees, and spectators for it's total idiocy), we used to get in new desktop computers to put into various departments. The inventory controller would (...) (25 years ago, 20-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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