r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Zombeaver24 • 14h ago

I'm slightly vexed The amount of perfectly fine colouring pencils one of my teachers (I’m a cleaner) threw out for the new school year

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Yes I did remove them from her bin because what the hell!? They’re literally fine. One of my coworkers helps out with an after school club and says they are really short of colouring pencils so they will be used!

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u/Alarming_Definition9 6h ago

I appreciate your rational response.

I hate when companies are wasteful like that. Glad to know you're safe about it. I've run into people on here (by that I mean Reddit as a whole) who think electrical work is easy and not at all as dangerous as it is (for those wanting to argue: survivor's fallacy is a thing people, please look it up).

I erred on the side of caution and gave you a tip, hoping that if you needed it then you'd heed it. And hopefully anyone who reads it understands that electrical components are not something one should usually trust when gotten from the trash.

Hope you have good one.

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u/LaundryMan2008 5h ago

I even found an LTO-6 tape drive on a pallet of scrap servers being absolutely rained on, big sheet of paper saying SCRAP on it and there was a tape library buried in between them all, I carefully unscrewed the blue thumb screws on the drive to remove it from the library, contortioned my arm between the fence and pulled it out, I saw a full set of 2.5TB tapes gleaming in the rainy light but it was just too far deep in to reach through the gap I made from the missing drive.

I’d wish I got the library but the servers were stacked on top and the place was closed because it was a Sunday when I usually do my dives at, that on its own is an easy £750 and the drive being another £200 on top, next day, they were gone.

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u/Alarming_Definition9 4h ago

Hearing/seeing stuff like that makes me angry cry. That valuable of stuff just being thrown out is just so wrong.

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u/LaundryMan2008 4h ago

That tape drive is now a nice to have spare to my primary tape backup units, my ones are LTO-5 so I don’t want to waste a LTO-6 drive’s wear and tear on LTO-5 tapes, it will definitely earn a sacred place in my URMS rack so it can live a life reading customer tapes in my future business since it’s one generation newer than anything I have at the moment.