Receiving Staff FYI Update Archive

2009
12/17 - (Special request from Vagrant) Server build wants 50 one to two foot ethernet cables (cat 5e). There is now a clear box with an orange label on it to stash them in when you find them. - (from Brittany) Let's try to improve communication with the thrift store by documenting what they like (or hate) and why! I started a list in the FYI binder. For example, did you know they'd only like common USB cables (A to B, mini) that are USB 2.0 or Ultra/High Speed? Any other tidbits of info, write them down!!!

12/10 - (from Advanced Testing) Please train volunteers what processors look like, and then tell them to treat them delicately and hand them to a staff member! Pins are getting bent, and many of them end up in the fans/heat sink box. Once you have the processor, place it on the foam for Advanced Testing Incoming.

12/8 - Build would like us to save Ubuntu CDs. They only want ones that have been produced by distributors, not burned by joe shmoe (if that makes sense). There's a CD spindle right next to the CD box that's labeled -- don't recycle them! - (from Annie) There are boxes of wireless keyboards and mice underneath the table - we should start taking them to Advanced Testing when they are ready for them

12/5 - (from Recycling/Cliff): New procedure - whenever you bring a monitor to the warehouse to be RECYCLED (older than Dec. 1999), put a tally mark on the clipboard in the appropriate place (from receiving, uncovered or covered, etc.). DO NOT place monitors directly into gaylords. Ask the recycling coordinators if you have any questions. - (from NPAs) Mark ALL incoming towers (even barebones cases with nothing in them) as systems, because that's how they get recycled. - (from Liane): All monitors larger than 19 inches and are rounded (not flat) should be auto-recycled.

12/1 - (from Advanced Testing): Please keep the fans and heat sinks AND their attachments all together instead of pulling them apart and recycling pieces.

11/10 - Liane needs CD spindles as an ongoing project. I labeled a box and put it in basic testing. Save them for her! - Sophia if looking for a working 26" TV for a Hardware Grant. Keep your eyes peeled for one, test it, and label it as such.

11/4 - Jake would like staff to train volunteers to keep the wall warts and the paper trays with the printers (but you can take away cables & manuals). The trays are apparently pretty valuable for his purposes because our buyer isn't interested in printers without them. So, instead of recycling printer trays as e-plastic, put them in the Printer Ink & Toner box or bring them back to Jake directly. - Please train volunteers to physically destroy 5 1/4" inch floppy disks before putting them into dirty plastic. Use scissors to cut them up!

11/3 - George and Cliff have gently reminded us to place "uncovered electronic device" stickers in the appropriate places on monitors. Rather than on the screen, or anywhere on the top or bottom, let's try to put those stickers in a standard location: top right corner of the frame. - When we train volunteers where to put keeper monitors, emphasize placing them in the shelves first. If there's no room on the shelves, then place them in front of keeper monitor overflow, not in front of the monitor testing station (makes sense, right?). If monitors get stacked in front of the ones we're trying to test, then the testers can't get to them.

10/20 - Q: Where did the VGA, SATA, and Figure 8 cable boxes go? A: They are temporarily removed because it says on the thrift store cord wall that the thrift store needs those cables! If and when the pictures of the cables come down off of the thrift store cord wall, than we should replace the boxes accordingly.

10/13 - Dave only wants cash registers, not the cash drawers and tills. Cash drawers (with working keys) might be able to used for infrastructure, so ask Tony when you get them. Otherwise, they can be recycled with deconstruction! - CGL no longer wants Mac games (unless they are old and in the box). - We're now saving packing foam for Santiago for packing e-bay sales.

9/9 - Send all webcams to the Monkeyhouse (USB and other kinds, too!)

9/1 - No more sorting wall warts! Please have volunteers untangle them and wrap them nicely first with rubber bands, and then give to advanced testing to sort them.

8/18 - Mac keyboards without an eject button (top right corner, upward arrow) can be immediately recycled. We test new Mac keyboards now. Bring them to the Mac Build area when done.

8/11 - Mice without a scroll button can immediately be recycled. We test newer Mac mice (oval, not round). - Blue Zip drives can go to the deconstruction box rather than CBM (the e-plastic can be removed).