Comment contract negotiation (Score 2) 209
What's more, destruction of hard drives means we have to buy new ones, which is going to cost us a lot of money, particular with prices being so high.
It should have been part of the contract negotiations that the cost of the HDDs is paid for by the government. If it wasn't your company should still have padded their fee to include this cost. If it wasn't, someone should be fired. You can then destroy the drives as required by the contract and use the salary savings to pay for new drives.