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green dragon
06/04/18 3:58:34 PM
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I forgot that I had it.

they never sent meant fine or any paper to indicate that I was missing equipment, and I don't think they will.

At my last school district, I was part of a trial program to see how these new laptops would work out with certain curricula. I don't think they tracked these specific laptops.

Either way, it's been a year since I worked in that school district. And I never received a notice to either return or pay for the laptop.

wtf should I do with it?
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helIy
06/04/18 4:00:01 PM
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what kind is it
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LeetCheet
06/04/18 4:01:48 PM
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What does your conscience say?
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VeeVees
06/04/18 4:02:06 PM
#4:


return the laptop
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LinkPizza
06/04/18 4:02:47 PM
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helIy posted...
what kind is it

This.

Also, I guess keep it. Or if its a crappy kind you dont want, you could probably either sell it, or give it to a family member. The right thing to do would to be to return it. But, they might not even want it anymore. Or might just throw it somewhere because its worthless to them. Or the might fine you because you kept it and they just didnt know what had it...
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Muffinz0rz
06/04/18 4:23:52 PM
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I say keep it and use it for yourself for a while until they ask for it returned. If they never do, then blow it up or do whatever you want with it.

what is the timeframe we're talking about here since you left? months? years?
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LinkPizza
06/04/18 4:38:40 PM
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Muffinz0rz posted...
I say keep it and use it for yourself for a while until they ask for it returned. If they never do, then blow it up or do whatever you want with it.

what is the timeframe we're talking about here since you left? months? years?

He said a year... So, I guess that...
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Muffinz0rz
06/04/18 4:44:13 PM
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LinkPizza posted...
Muffinz0rz posted...
I say keep it and use it for yourself for a while until they ask for it returned. If they never do, then blow it up or do whatever you want with it.

what is the timeframe we're talking about here since you left? months? years?

He said a year... So, I guess that...

oh missed that

yeah i stand by my statement then. i see no reason why you can't just use it for yourself.

worst case scenario, if they really want it back, they'll just factory reset it.
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InfestedAdam
06/04/18 4:50:01 PM
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VeeVees posted...
return the laptop

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green dragon
06/04/18 5:19:52 PM
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helIy posted...
what kind is it

surface pro, I think, 3. so it's a good laptop, a newer than my own laptop

If I do keep it, I should probably just buy a windows license, yeah? I think they have certain restrictions on the pc, or it may be tracked/monitored

LeetCheet posted...
What does your conscience say?

honestly, I don't feel super guilty for keeping it, if that's what I do. The district isn't poor by any means, and if they really needed it, they would have contacted me by now.

And actually, I have been contacted by the district, just for other things. so if it was a big deal, they probably would have contacted me.
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Reciful_II
06/04/18 5:47:12 PM
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Keep it, if there not coming after it they don't miss it and it'll probably just end up gathering dust.
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Zeus
06/04/18 6:04:03 PM
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tbh, stuff like this is why I scoff when districts ask for more education funding. They're always rife with nonsense like this.

I'm not sure why you'd even put this to a vote instead of just doing the right thing. A laptop is an expensive item and you should contact the district to see if they want it back (and, if they're being responsible, they should take it back no matter what then sell it if they can't use it). The fact that they're too incompetent (again, government at work) to even think of tracking the expensive items they let people use isn't a free pass to just keep those items.
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TheWorstPoster
06/04/18 6:05:50 PM
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Can it run Crysis?
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SunWuKung420
06/04/18 6:08:46 PM
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3I63Vh5
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green dragon
06/04/18 6:22:30 PM
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Zeus posted...
tbh, stuff like this is why I scoff when districts ask for more education funding. They're always rife with nonsense like this.

I'm not sure why you'd even put this to a vote instead of just doing the right thing. A laptop is an expensive item and you should contact the district to see if they want it back (and, if they're being responsible, they should take it back no matter what then sell it if they can't use it). The fact that they're too incompetent (again, government at work) to even think of tracking the expensive items they let people use isn't a free pass to just keep those items.

Hey, what kind of job do you have again?
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CarefreeDude
06/04/18 6:24:14 PM
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Probably just return it. There is chance there is special software on it that could track you.
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zebatov
06/04/18 6:26:42 PM
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One year? Keep it or wipe it and sell it. At this point, in my experience, they'll report you and say you stole it. One week is fine... but a whole year, you've technically stolen it anyways.
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Bacon_Pancakes
06/04/18 6:27:41 PM
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Clean install if you're hesitant about tracking.

Idk, I have a microphone from my school's broadcasting class 8 years ago. It's an old SM57 so it's nothing special but I use it daily and it had been in storage at the school for years...
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CarefreeDude
06/04/18 6:35:12 PM
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Bacon_Pancakes posted...
Clean install if you're hesitant about tracking.

Idk, I have a microphone from my school's broadcasting class 8 years ago. It's an old SM57 so it's nothing special but I use it daily and it had been in storage at the school for years...


Sometimes the tracking is Installed on the BIOS and not even replacing the HDD will remove it
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RedPixel
06/04/18 7:03:11 PM
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Same thing happened to me. I turned it into a CounterStrike machine. It wasn't a great computer but it ran CS Source pretty great.
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helIy
06/04/18 7:17:37 PM
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send it to me if you're so scared of it being tracked
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green dragon
06/04/18 7:34:42 PM
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helIy posted...
send it to me if you're so scared of it being tracked

sure, what's your address?
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rexcrk
06/04/18 7:41:58 PM
#24:


Might as well keep it. If they really wanted it back, wouldnt they have asked for it back by now?

I mean if youre really worried, then just return it.
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helIy
06/04/18 7:55:28 PM
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green dragon posted...
helIy posted...
send it to me if you're so scared of it being tracked

sure, what's your address?

srs?
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myghostisdead
06/04/18 8:39:26 PM
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I'm surprised you didn't have it listed on your inventory. Each year we had to do a very detailed inventory down to the smallest items it seemed. Then another inventory for electronic equipment and software and another for items over $500. Was it not listed? Also, our equipment were all numbered somehow and we had to turn in laptops to the tech guy at the end of the year and he checked them all out. We could take them home over the summer but we had to have him release them to us.
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SunWuKung420
06/04/18 8:45:12 PM
#27:


I offered a dollar for it and you're just going to give it to helly. What the fuck?!
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Zeus
06/04/18 8:56:24 PM
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green dragon posted...
Zeus posted...
tbh, stuff like this is why I scoff when districts ask for more education funding. They're always rife with nonsense like this.

I'm not sure why you'd even put this to a vote instead of just doing the right thing. A laptop is an expensive item and you should contact the district to see if they want it back (and, if they're being responsible, they should take it back no matter what then sell it if they can't use it). The fact that they're too incompetent (again, government at work) to even think of tracking the expensive items they let people use isn't a free pass to just keep those items.

Hey, what kind of job do you have again?


I'm the guy whose taxes paid your salary.... or, if you were in either my district or state, I would be (or, I suppose, if the program is paid for by federal dollars, I was paying for it). At any rate, nice attempt at changing the topic to when what you're thinking of doing isn't merely morally wrong, but tantamount to (or perhaps literally) theft.

SunWuKung420 posted...
I offered a dollar for it and you're just going to give it to helly. What the fuck?!


I know, you totally had the higher offer.
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OhhhJa
06/04/18 8:58:39 PM
#29:


zebatov posted...
One week is fine... but a whole year, you've technically stolen it anyways.

Yeah this
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green dragon
06/04/18 9:06:58 PM
#30:


well, I just found out that I should've been making a bit more money at my previous school district.I feel zero guilt about keeping the pc now,lol
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SunWuKung420
06/04/18 9:08:27 PM
#31:


green dragon posted...
well, I just found out that I should've been making a bit more money at my previous school district.I feel zero guilt about keeping the pc now,lol


Ok. $2. Highest offer.
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Zeus
06/04/18 9:08:31 PM
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green dragon posted...
well, I just found out that I should've been making a bit more money at my previous school district.I feel zero guilt about keeping the pc now,lol


Don't try to justify it, unless maybe if they had done some illegal shit because you're doing some illegal shit.
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green dragon
06/04/18 9:42:46 PM
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Zeus posted...
green dragon posted...
well, I just found out that I should've been making a bit more money at my previous school district.I feel zero guilt about keeping the pc now,lol


Don't try to justify it, unless maybe if they had done some illegal shit because you're doing some illegal shit.

nah, I'm just half way joking. I'm going to return the laptop when I go back to that town, which will be in about a week and a half
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SpeeDLeemon
06/04/18 9:47:45 PM
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nah fuck that; keep it
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helIy
06/04/18 9:53:43 PM
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i cant believe you'd tease me like that, on this, the 10 days away from my birthday, day.
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Muffinz0rz
06/05/18 11:25:12 AM
#36:


green dragon posted...
Zeus posted...
green dragon posted...
well, I just found out that I should've been making a bit more money at my previous school district.I feel zero guilt about keeping the pc now,lol


Don't try to justify it, unless maybe if they had done some illegal shit because you're doing some illegal shit.

nah, I'm just half way joking. I'm going to return the laptop when I go back to that town, which will be in about a week and a half

Dude no

You know damn well that laptop is going unused and/or sold for cash into some grunt's personal bank account.

It's been a year. You walk into the district or wherever. "Hey guy, here's a laptop from a while ago." "Oh sure, I'll get it right to IT or whomever right away!"

Of course not. They're taking that laptop for themselves.

At this point, you're inconveniencing yourself for an outcome that will negatively affect you. If they want the laptop back, they'll call you. Don't go out of your way just to discard a perfectly usable laptop that nobody is looking for.
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LinkPizza
06/05/18 11:59:27 AM
#37:


Muffinz0rz posted...
green dragon posted...
Zeus posted...
green dragon posted...
well, I just found out that I should've been making a bit more money at my previous school district.I feel zero guilt about keeping the pc now,lol


Don't try to justify it, unless maybe if they had done some illegal shit because you're doing some illegal shit.

nah, I'm just half way joking. I'm going to return the laptop when I go back to that town, which will be in about a week and a half

Dude no

You know damn well that laptop is going unused and/or sold for cash into some grunt's personal bank account.

It's been a year. You walk into the district or wherever. "Hey guy, here's a laptop from a while ago." "Oh sure, I'll get it right to IT or whomever right away!"

Of course not. They're taking that laptop for themselves.

At this point, you're inconveniencing yourself for an outcome that will negatively affect you. If they want the laptop back, they'll call you. Don't go out of your way just to discard a perfectly usable laptop that nobody is looking for.

Especially because of the other person sells or keeps it(which they probably will since item they dont seem to want it), then its gone. But if they do end up wanting it back, now you cant give it back. And they probably wont tell if they know that nobody wanted it, or if they wanted it. Whether it was to use or sell it. And if you have no proof, then youre out of luck...

But can I ask, did you know you had the laptop? By that, I mean, did you always know from the day you left that you had the laptop, or did you recently find it when cleaning out storage or something?
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slacker03150
06/05/18 1:09:22 PM
#38:


If you just found it after a year, you are obviously not using it, and they cost money to recycle so why not send it back?
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wwinterj25
06/05/18 1:25:03 PM
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Keep it or if you don't want it sell it.
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DeathMagnetic80
06/05/18 2:36:30 PM
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VeeVees posted...
return the laptop


That. You never know when someone doing an audit of their shit may come across a missing lap top, and it's better to just give it back and avoid a potential hassle.
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helIy
06/05/18 3:22:45 PM
#41:


Muffinz0rz posted...
green dragon posted...
Zeus posted...
green dragon posted...
well, I just found out that I should've been making a bit more money at my previous school district.I feel zero guilt about keeping the pc now,lol


Don't try to justify it, unless maybe if they had done some illegal shit because you're doing some illegal shit.

nah, I'm just half way joking. I'm going to return the laptop when I go back to that town, which will be in about a week and a half

Dude no

You know damn well that laptop is going unused and/or sold for cash into some grunt's personal bank account.

It's been a year. You walk into the district or wherever. "Hey guy, here's a laptop from a while ago." "Oh sure, I'll get it right to IT or whomever right away!"

Of course not. They're taking that laptop for themselves.

At this point, you're inconveniencing yourself for an outcome that will negatively affect you. If they want the laptop back, they'll call you. Don't go out of your way just to discard a perfectly usable laptop that nobody is looking for.

It's why I offered to take it off his hands.

even if it's tracked on the bios level, it's easy enough to flash a vanilla bios, and if that doesn't work for whatever reason, just replace the entire bios chip.

that's a little more involved
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Muffinz0rz
06/05/18 3:30:41 PM
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helIy posted...
Muffinz0rz posted...
green dragon posted...
Zeus posted...
green dragon posted...
well, I just found out that I should've been making a bit more money at my previous school district.I feel zero guilt about keeping the pc now,lol


Don't try to justify it, unless maybe if they had done some illegal shit because you're doing some illegal shit.

nah, I'm just half way joking. I'm going to return the laptop when I go back to that town, which will be in about a week and a half

Dude no

You know damn well that laptop is going unused and/or sold for cash into some grunt's personal bank account.

It's been a year. You walk into the district or wherever. "Hey guy, here's a laptop from a while ago." "Oh sure, I'll get it right to IT or whomever right away!"

Of course not. They're taking that laptop for themselves.

At this point, you're inconveniencing yourself for an outcome that will negatively affect you. If they want the laptop back, they'll call you. Don't go out of your way just to discard a perfectly usable laptop that nobody is looking for.

It's why I offered to take it off his hands.

even if it's tracked on the bios level, it's easy enough to flash a vanilla bios, and if that doesn't work for whatever reason, just replace the entire bios chip.

that's a little more involved

Sending it to someone else would be even sillier though. IMO he has two options for two situations:

He hangs onto the laptop:

1.) District finally calls back and would like it returned. Fortunately he has it so he sends it back no problem.
2.) District never calls back. Boom, free laptop.

or

He sells/gives it to helly / destroys it

1.) District finally calls back and would like it returned. TC doesn't have it and gets slapped with a $500 bill.
2.) Distract never calls back. No harm done.

If you actively think going out of your way to return it is the smart thing to do, then I guess go for it. But at this point, just keep it, use it as a side-laptop (for browsing and maybe netflix since I assume it doesn't have the ability to process much more than that) and just keep it light. If they ask for it back, they'll wipe it anyways.

As it stands right now, there is no risk for you since you still have the computer, so going out of your way to bring it to someone's attention is silly. Especially when your profit is a free laptop.
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Kyuubi4269
06/05/18 3:34:19 PM
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Muffinz0rz posted...
use it as a side-laptop (for browsing and maybe netflix since I assume it doesn't have the ability to process much more than that)

It's a surface pro 3, it's pretty solid.
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Reciful_II
06/05/18 5:39:24 PM
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Also if you return this you could be getting someone into trouble for not keeping track of it and causing a lot of hassle for someone who needs to find out what to do with it.

Honestly at this point everyone's life's a lot easier if it just never turns up.
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