April 05, 2007
Finished the printers yesterday. Instead of 5/8th ton of new printers in the conference room there's a pile of empty boxes and a pile of obsolete printers. There are the purchased printers that will be going back to the MUC (Material Utilization(?) Center) to be disposed of according to company policies. Pity, I think they wholesale them. There's 6-10 HP 4Vs in that pile which go for about $50 each on eBay. The two newer ones may be 4Ms, which are only worth about $10. But, like most companies, we are not allowed to save the company money. I'm not about to sidetrack a $10 printer and risk a half million retirement that I've been working toward for the past 36 years. I am neither dishonest nor stupid. Which is why the E-Mail I got this morning upset me:
> Mike:
Please do not keep any printers for spare parts. All printers must be MUC'd that should be MUC'd to account for savings and to be auctioned off. If a printer breaks, the companies position is .... the purchase of a new printer. ... If anything other than that is done, it's a violation of Code Of Conduct. I'm not going to be the police but I have to let you know the company's policy. I was told you had planned on keeping some printers for spare parts and I am advising you against that approach.
So I replied:
I'm OCS. I do system printers. I do *not* do network printers. My responsibility with network printers ends at the tip of the Ethernet patch cable (and that's only 'cause I'm a nice guy and go six feet beyond the Jack.) I don't program printers, I don't place printers, I don't unpack printers, etc.. I especially don't repair network printers. I don't know how Bob managed to get a work order for me to swap out the new printers 'cause that's not my job. He's a rat (but a good rat and a good friend, and I can understand trying to pawn off the unpacking and placing of the new printers as I would do the same if I were in his position.) Counting the takeouts that was over a TON of printers that I moved in three days. My back is killing me. They are Bob's printers and his responsibility. I don't want them. They are obsolete, any 'spare parts' are not usable on the new printers. I do not and never have had any intention to have anything to do with network printers, let alone keep some for spare parts.
Whoever told you I had any interest whatsoever in those printers is sadly mistaken.