So xerox want me to return my macbook pro (4 years) with zero book value (agreed by manager). I'm told they'll invoice me more than its worth new if I keep it. My last manager before I left was actually a very decent guy. I liked him immediately. I offered to buy it. I was told I'd be invoiced more than its worth. I mean, really? Its zero book value, you gonna sue me? Pay to sue me over something that worth nothing in the books????
Where do I cut the b—s— line here?
Book value has nothing to to do with this. Ridiculous.
Returning laptops and computers seemed to varying among division org. and departments
Some organizations were allowed to purchase for a nominal fee $100 or allowed to scrub the hard drive and keep.The layoffs were responsible for mis-management on all fronts concerning company assets.
Why didn’t they take it on your last day. I worked until five on my last day and by three my supervisor was already asking for my key card.
Bottom line...the laptop and computers, etc. ARE Xerox property. It was your responsibility to return the laptop the minute your employment ended. If you did reach out and offer to purchase the laptop and the price seems expensive then don't keep it and buy yourself a new one but it's your responsibility to return the laptop asap. I don't believe you have a right to keep company property without some kind of reaction from Xerox. Now for those who did say they kept company IT equipment with no issue that's on that person's forner manager and the IT department for not following up appropriately.
People here are really complacent. Look, I was told I could likely buy it off. Then on further investigation, it turned out I couldn't. In between, I resigned for a startup in the software world. I wiped the drive clean. My manager told me the book value was zero. I forgot the damn thing in its box for nearly a month as I got kind of busy with the new job and I hadn't had an answer yet. Then he called me up, reminded me and told me they'd invoice me. And I thought, maybe that's how it works. But in the end, I figured they wouldn't invoice me what its worth, they'd go all retribution mode and charge me a fortune. Since I'm no thief, I took the box back upstairs, I reinstalled Big Sur, left it at the country selection screen, cleaned it all up and packaged it properly. Its quite a shame to see how people will infer the worst in others. Maybe its time you take this as a hint its time to move to a more positive environment than what Xerox has to offer in its dying days...
Assuming it is like other Xerox PC's the critical stuff is protected by your S3 password. Without that the PC (Mac) is worthless. Now if you write zeros to all the sectors and clean the drive and reload your OS, it will be like any other usable PC/Mac. If you were furloughed, laid off, or quit they will take the value of the equipment out of your retirement, 401k, etc if you do not return it.... I mean really is it really worth that? All the PC's I have had have been the cheapest possible avenue and not one that I would consider keeping for any reason!
It's not yours. Why would you want it anyway? If you have personal stuff on it, you shouldn't.
Bottom line is it is not yours to keep! It does not belong to you! You do not own it. Just sent it back. Buy your own new MacBook Pro ... why keep a 4 year old one? Don't be so petty!!
I wouldn't risk just keeping it. I'm not in the Mac world, but maybe if there is the ability to swap out the drive as there is in the PC world, just buy a similar year used model online for whatever they are going for and swap that out and then return it. Not to keep any proprietary information but just to keep your own things of course.
A macbook pro? For a privileged one, not too bright
Xerox will charge you what they paid plus a markup. You loose all sympathy when you exaggerate your claim that it's worth 0. You know it's not worth 0 on the open market.
Just return it and buy one at '0'.
So I did format the thing. I'm no longer a xerox employee. I'm not trying to steal the thing but to BUY it back.
They won’t invoice you. I kept a c405 printer I took home when they closed our regional offices. When I left the company they never asked for it back and I never got invoiced. FTW!
Please tell me this post is not from a Xerox employee.
There is no indication of “our country is tumbling” in this post. Just a few candid and honest replies to some greedy plebe pouting about not being able to steal company property.
Xerox has become dysplastic
The quality of this post and comments indicates a general degradation of intelligence of the population. As well as a new willingness to denigrate others. Talk radio can only be partially to blame. Sad to watch our country crumble.
By the looks of this post, all the smart people have already left Xerox a while ago & left with the bottom of the barrel..
It’s not the monetary value of the PC they are worried about you dweeb. It is the IP and proprietary data sitting on it that is valuable. What an id–t.