Once some one brought a Dell laptop to me telling me that they could not remember their password and asked me to reinstall windows and give it back to them. They told me I didn't need to back anything up.
I decided I would be nice and back up their files anyway. I took out the hard drive and when I went to the accounds folder something looked odd. None of these folders had a name that resembled the person that gave me the laptop. After doing more digging through the files I found out the laptop was the property of another company and assigned to a sales individual. He had a copy of the company directory on his desktop so I called him and shipped it back to him; he only lived 60 miles from my house. The person that gave me the laptop had a job as a flight attendent on an airline that I won't name.
As it turned out the owner of the laptop had placed it in his seat pocket during the flight and forgot to get it back out. The flight attendent took it, removed the stickers and business cards from it, ordered a new power supply, and then was trying to get me to complete the final step in making it his. After returning the laptop the flight attended tried to convince me that I owed him for the loss of this laptop that was never his property. I invited him to have a discussion with myself, the airline, and the company that owned the laptop at which point he respecfully withdrew his claim.
I hate to say this (not really)... but your a fucking asshole. I wouldn't have bothered in having a 'discussion' with you. I would've just whooped your ass and taken out the cost of the laptop out on your skull.
(And I seriously don't care for those of you who low rank me)
I would expect most to have that thought pattern and response from learning I had returned the stolen laptop to its owners along with criticism from anyone aware of the situation. Precautions were taken to avoid harassment and harm. I had already spoken to employees of the airline and found taking the laptop was sufficient means for loosing his job. The company that owned the laptop being all to happy to get their data back was also prepared to file a legal complaint had I disclosed his name to them. He was made aware of this when I invited him to have the discussion which made the mutually beneficial for the both of us for him to do nothing more.
@Joel, you're totally the man. it's nice to hear a refreshing story like that.
@iH8Engadget, you probably already know this, but i'm pretty sure you have no sense of justice, nobility, or dignity. did you even read his post, or are you just a laptop-stealing low-life yourself? the dude gave Joel a hot laptop to reformat, and Joel returned it to its rightful owner... essentially, said criminal is back to square one, warranting no beating of any sort. if anything, said criminal should shrug his shoulders and move on with life.
btw- oxymoronic name...why even read/post on this site (or even live for that matter)? i know you are too dumb to care, and since you're so dumb, i have provided this link for necessary, educational purposes: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/oxymoron.
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Once some one brought a Dell laptop to me telling me that they could not remember their password and asked me to reinstall windows and give it back to them. They told me I didn't need to back anything up.
I decided I would be nice and back up their files anyway. I took out the hard drive and when I went to the accounds folder something looked odd. None of these folders had a name that resembled the person that gave me the laptop. After doing more digging through the files I found out the laptop was the property of another company and assigned to a sales individual. He had a copy of the company directory on his desktop so I called him and shipped it back to him; he only lived 60 miles from my house. The person that gave me the laptop had a job as a flight attendent on an airline that I won't name.
As it turned out the owner of the laptop had placed it in his seat pocket during the flight and forgot to get it back out. The flight attendent took it, removed the stickers and business cards from it, ordered a new power supply, and then was trying to get me to complete the final step in making it his. After returning the laptop the flight attended tried to convince me that I owed him for the loss of this laptop that was never his property. I invited him to have a discussion with myself, the airline, and the company that owned the laptop at which point he respecfully withdrew his claim.
I hate to say this (not really)... but your a fucking asshole. I wouldn't have bothered in having a 'discussion' with you. I would've just whooped your ass and taken out the cost of the laptop out on your skull.
(And I seriously don't care for those of you who low rank me)
Hello iH8Engadget.
I would expect most to have that thought pattern and response from learning I had returned the stolen laptop to its owners along with criticism from anyone aware of the situation. Precautions were taken to avoid harassment and harm. I had already spoken to employees of the airline and found taking the laptop was sufficient means for loosing his job. The company that owned the laptop being all to happy to get their data back was also prepared to file a legal complaint had I disclosed his name to them. He was made aware of this when I invited him to have the discussion which made the mutually beneficial for the both of us for him to do nothing more.
no matter what others say, returning the laptop was the right thing to do.
@Joel,
you're totally the man. it's nice to hear a refreshing story like that.
@iH8Engadget,
you probably already know this, but i'm pretty sure you have no sense of justice, nobility, or dignity. did you even read his post, or are you just a laptop-stealing low-life yourself? the dude gave Joel a hot laptop to reformat, and Joel returned it to its rightful owner... essentially, said criminal is back to square one, warranting no beating of any sort. if anything, said criminal should shrug his shoulders and move on with life.
btw- oxymoronic name...why even read/post on this site (or even live for that matter)? i know you are too dumb to care, and since you're so dumb, i have provided this link for necessary, educational purposes: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/oxymoron.
go to hell.