Re:When I Worked For People With A Clue... (Score 1)

My previous position was working for an academic It department and before we moved buildings there was a blessing of plenty of storage space. Thus we kept spare parts, old parts, spare systems all over... and quite a lot of stuff going all the way back to external 5" floppy SCSI drives and ancient SUN laptops running DOS. But I agree, you need to keep the parts yourself for the "just in case" it proves the competency to prepare for the unexpected. The overhead of "oh it won't happen to us" is rediculous. When we moved buildings we lost all our setup, storage, and "emergency parts" stores... in fact the pointy hairs saw it all as "old junk" and "unused junk" and threw it all out... with a tear to my eye. Overnight delivery is great but when you need it NOW... well you just take stuff from functioning non-important systems and not tell the boss ;-)