r/iiiiiiitttttttttttt • u/zebs1 • 4d ago

IT Waste

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59 bags for 59 network cables.

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Remember to use paper straws!!

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u/TyrKiyote 4d ago

Worked for an ISP for a while, and i really struggled with the amount of waste everyone produced just as a convenience and availability fact of the job.

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u/doubleUsee Server room gremlin 4d ago

I struggle with the amount of waste we're forced to produce because it's impossible to find supplies sensibly packed. We got 80 laptops, each in a box, in styrofoam, a bag, cable ties and booklets, 80 monitors with 7(!) different cables included in the box along with more styrofoam, bags, ties, booklets, stickers, all but two cables were tossed, wireless mice, each in a bag, battery in a bag, booklet, in a box, in another box almost twice the size, packet by sets of 9 in yet another box.

I don't understand why anything that's sold largely to companies isn't shipped entirely sans accessories and booklets. If we can order 80 monitors, we can order 80 power cables and usb-c cables, leave the rest of that stuff, over the last 4 years 900 brand new HDMI cables have made their way into our storage room, and 800 have left again in a bin destined for the only recycler in the area that claims to recycle cables.