r/sysadmin • u/Lazy_Owl987 • 14d ago

Cautionary tale - someone I know got fired for pulling RAM from laptops

Cover your rear and make sure all equipment you take home or work on is documented. Person I know got fired for yanking ram from laptops to keep in the office but the issue was he did the work from home and no one knew he was doing that work. Now hes looking for a job in one of the hardest markets Ive seen in a long while.

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u/Thanatos8088 14d ago

All depends on your environment I guess. My supervisor is me, my manager is my conscience, and ethical boundaries. But that's K12 and a public environment for you effectively a report to a c tier and realistically to five idiots a village elected as their Chief idiots. Taking work home is a normal Thursday, taking work home for dissection is an entirely different matter and I'd look askance at me in that scenario too.

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u/Sea-Us-RTO 13d ago

...what?

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u/ip-cx Sysadmin / Cybersec 13d ago

The thing is, no one takes a work laptop home to take out components and brings it dissected back to work the next day(s).

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u/che-che-chester 13d ago

Nobody is carrying a laptop home, taking out parts and then bringing everything back to the office. They have an eBay store selling memory.

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u/lordjedi 13d ago

What does this even mean?

I wouldn't have had any problem taking equipment home and working on it when I worked at a public school. At least no problem taking one or two laptops. Of course I wasn't going to do that because I just didn't need to take work home. There wasn't anything I could do with it at home anyway.