Comment on HR people smiling at you thinking that you are a complete moron

burgerchurgarr@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  You should have kept the Mac, seriously. I often had no response trying to get laptops back from employees and was asking HR if we couldn’t get a form for new hires to sign regarding company equipment returns. Can’t remember the reasoning but HR told me the company is basically powerless to force the issue. In any case, the legal costs of suing you would quickly stack higher than $7K.

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  • biggerBear@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Sure, I’ll gladly send the laptop back, you’ll just have to pay my hourly freelance rate for the labor involved. My rate is $240,000/hr, I’ll have it shipped out within 30 business days of payment. Alternatively, feel free to send a courier for pickup, my current address is 189 Beaker St, McMurdo Station, Antarctica.

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  • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Can’t they just file a police report suggesting you stole it? It’s the government’s job then and since the police barely have to investigate anything they are sure to actually do something. That’s a quick way to get a search warrant filed.

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    • MirthfulAlembic@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      No, at least not in the US. It does not meet the legal definition of theft because (I believe) the property was initially acquired legally.

      Otherwise, the police would be doing repo for things like delinquent car loans, which is dystopian corporate hellscape stuff.

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      • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Really?

        Over here in Germany refusing to return items which someone contractually entrusted you is a misdemeanor. You would be treated like, say, a car repair shop who refuses to return your car you entrusted them to repair.

        This differs from not paying debt, in that case you are legally in possession (not ownership though!) of whatever indebted item so the only recourse is a civil lawsuit. Besides, repossession can only be done through a court-ordered official:

        Due to the state’s monopoly on the use of force, foreclosure may only be carried out by state foreclosure bodies, such as bailiffs. With the exception of permitted self-help, unauthorized foreclosure by the creditor is prohibited and is generally unlawful as vigilante justice.

        This translation sucks btw, the term “foreclosure” is inaccurate because it refers to a court ordered official either seizing money/stocks/investments and/or physical valuables (valuables = items not required for a modest lifestyle such as jewelry, designer clothes, fancy non-IKEA furniture etc) or foreclosing your property. In case of specific debt like your car they would probably seize that instead unless you demonstrate you rely on it to get to work unless it could be substituted with a cheaper car which would then be provided in exchange.

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  • burgerchurgarr@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yeah but they would hold back the severance pay until they received the laptop, they have done this before lol

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• modus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Never bought a Mac before, but what the hell are the specs in a $7k Macbook? I didn’t think they went over $3k.

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  • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Probably equivalent to about a $2k PC.

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    • Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      the laptop I’m working on right now cost me $1600 new in March and it is AWESOME. It replaced a Mac I bought in 2016 for $1800. My son uses PCs. He’s bought 4 in the same time period for about $1000-1200 each. Tell me whose computers are most expensive.

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  • bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’ve never priced one that high, but I’d suspect 16" screen and multi-TB nvme are the main culprits.

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    • burgerchurgarr@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yeah I had that one, absolute beast would never buy that for myself but would have loved to keep it

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  • Tja@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The big ones start at 3k.

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• Mio@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It would be nice to get some time in advance as notice. Like Trump get 4 years as he can’t be fired for some unknown reason even though he has and is still doing illegal things(tarifs without kongress approval etc.)…

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  • burgerchurgarr@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Apparently being a child fucker isn’t a reason to get fired either

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• IndustryStandard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Solder another SSD in that bad boy

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