Re: Layoffs and scrounging

["Huber, Mike" <mrhuber -at- SOFTWARE -dot- ROCKWELL -dot- COM>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lisa Higgins [mailto:lisarea -at- LUCENT -dot- COM]
>
> So then, Dave Neufeld is all like:
>
> > The equipment is the companies to allocate as they see fit.
> It is still
> > rather bad form to be a vulture when someone is on vacation
> and snatch
> > the petty stuff.
>
> Ha. I've gotcha beat. I once worked at a very small company where you
> couldn't go to LUNCH without facing the prospect that your mouse
> might be gone when you got back. Of course, I locked my office when
> there was nobody there to guard my stuff, but the system admin
> couldn't lock his door because the servers were in there, so when
> something broke, all I had to do was wait for him to go downstairs to
> get an espresso, and VOILA! New equipment for me! YAY!

My first real job was during college. I worked Monday, Wednesday, and
Friday, to fit my class schedule.

Went back to school on Monday afternoon, everything was cool. Back to work
Wednesday morning, and there was literally a hole burned in my table where
the computer had been. I never found out exactly what the person who used
the computer on Tuesday did to it, but I did flowcharting on paper for the
rest of my short stint with that company.