I have spent a lot of my life scavenging old tech others have lost the use for. A couple months ago I picked up a projector I can hook up to a laptop to watch movies. That's the biggest/nicest I've taken from work.
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I took a big box of cat-5 from when my office was being shut down. I made ethernet cables of varying lengths as I needed them.
Eventually they called me back and hired me as management in a new area and I worked there for 7 more years. No regrets. Would steal again.
I'm a field tech, once I was installing a line at a customer not far from home, my company supplied a box with 300m of CAT6 cable to wire everything up but the customer insisted that we use their own, armored cable. For my company it was part of the supply, already billed. I drove there so I could carry whatever I wanted. That box of cable is now in my garage.
Many times over the years. Just yesterday I stole a brand new cordless mouse, because I was using a cheap shitty chinese one at home.
2 couches. Still have one of em
I'm amazed how many people are thieves. I don't mean that in a judgemental way. It's just so different to how I love my life. I'm somewhat taken aback by the comments about what people have stolen.
It's kind of cultural. See some gloves from work at a coworker's house? Meh. Coworker wraps their body with welding cables and smuggles it out? High fives all around.
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just a bunch of floppy disks and recordable CDs.
I also wanted to take home a 386 PC that was rotting in the closet, but I missed that, tho that machine was massive.
edit: this was recently
An ADSL modem after work upgraded to fibre, I think that's about it. They probably would've given it if I asked anyway.
Sharpies.
Loads pf unwanted forgotten tech
I work in IT, I have a tendency to “decommission’ hardware so it can be “recycled”
Through this method I have several enterprise switches, a home server, several very nice laptops.
I worked for a company that got bought out, but the field office had some uncounted inventory. By the time the buyers got to it, the inventory matches their spreadsheet exactly.
Their spreadsheet.