Subj : Re: Am I the only one dumpster diving ?
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : boraxman
Date : Tue May 24 2022 09:59:27

 pF>  Sp> I used to know a couple of locations, mostly with IT businesses that
 pF>  Sp> would regularly throw out a heap of stuff at the end of each financia
 pF>  Sp> year.
 pF> 
 pF>  I went to work a couple of years ago, and on my first day, my boss,
 pF>  the CIO, told me what a mess I was walking into. He had to "kick some
 pF>  ass" before I got in to get rid of tons of crap that the previous
 pF>  manager left lying around.
 pF> 
 pF>  "We had 3 pallets of IBM PC XTs and ATs. 3 pallets!
 pF> 
 pF>  I gulped.
 pF> 
 pF>  They'd all gone to e-waste, and he'd gotten nothing for them. He
 pF>  probably paid to have them hauled off and thought he'd gotten a favor
 pF>  because they were so old.
 pF> 
 pF>  I wept inside.
 pF> 
 pF>  All that remained was one Model M keyboard and DOS 3.3 documentation
 pF>  in those 3-ring pressed-board binders.
 pF> 
 pF> 
 pF> 

That is awful to read.  The wastefulness of our society is nothing short of
criminal.  We like to pat ourselves on the back on how responsible we are, but really, we're not at all.

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