Picking up PC's that people have dumped by the skips at work

DJMK4 said:
I am hoping I am not going to get myself in trouble now, but as its council owned, all they do is take them to the council tip. If it was a private pick up service I could sort of understand.
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Relax yourself! No one cares so sit back and enjoy some free PC's
 
DJMK4 said:
I am hoping I am not going to get myself in trouble now, but as its council owned, all they do is take them to the council tip. If it was a private pick up service I could sort of understand.
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lolwut? council decides to throw out HDD with the possibility of peoples details.... thats stupid of them. But anyways, finders keepers losers weepers.
Unless its a network pc then its all cool.
 
singist said:
I visit many hospitals on my rounds as a courier (surgical stuff) and see literally hundreds of scrapped pcs in the scrap cages .... never taken any but I'm sure that, if I asked nicely, I could scavenge a couple.
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Likely they won't have a hard disk in them, we remove ours and crush them if they can't be nuked and reused elsewhere. Also most are encrypted too ;)
 
I know we pay someone to take away all our equipment who then sells them on in town after a bit of a referb
but that's sans hard drives as there could be patient details
staff get first picks tho as we have to pay for it to be taken away.
 
I do this a lot at work, we're always throwing away perfectly good pc's. I can see why they do it though. It's simply not worth my time sticking it on ebay to recoup costs. I'm not even allowed to take them home, because they see it as unfair treatment to the rest of the staff - sods.
 
We live in a throw away society. My sister was going to throw a Dell C521 desktop down the tip. Athlon64 3800+, 1gb ram, dvd writer, 80gig sata hdd and the 17" dell tft monitor.

I had it and now the mrs is using it.
 
I've done it before but it was before it was skipped, that laptop I am writing on now :D

Perfectly good samsung laptop with a dead HDD that needed an OS reinstall anyway.

Threw and new HDD in and Ubuntu on it and it's now my in bed or when I go out laptop, it's 15" which is easier to carry about than my decent 17" samsung laptop.
 
DJMK4 said:
I honestly dont know why people throw out working hardware unless its really really really really really old that no one can use.
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They are obviously just gigantic noobasaurs that dont even know what Ebay is :p

From the specs you posted, surely all that those computers needed to be decent office or media setups was a load more ram, not chucking out and getting a whole new replacement lol.

RobRX-7 said:
We live in a throw away society. My sister was going to throw a Dell C521 desktop down the tip. Athlon64 3800+, 1gb ram, dvd writer, 80gig sata hdd and the 17" dell tft monitor.
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:( Poor PC :(
 
I had 20 salvaged PC's and first gen TFT's in my loft at one point, spent about £50 on each to get working well and sold them on for £200 each....... financed my Fireblade :D

My work sells old hardware on to staff. Last lot went for £50 for workstation and monitor - staff are happy and what the company had fully written off now gives a bit of extra money for Christmas party!
 
Never thought about picking ones up at local tip.

Whenever I am at the local tip, there is always staff looking at stuff, taking this and that. I am sure some of them go and sell at car boots on a weekend and make some money from what people throw away at the tip.
 
It's instant dismissal from our place if we remove anything from a skip.

Everything goes off for recycling (raw material, not component), so it's classed as theft if you take something.

When your company is in the business of selling new hardware, it makes no sense to let the old hardware stay on the market.
 
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