Key Cutter - Where is it?

DMS General
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Anyone know where the key cutter/duplicator went? It used to be in the white storage cabinets, but that appears to be empty.

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90% chance it ended up on donation shelf a few months ago

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Why?!?!:angry: We used that to make keys for the CNC.

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Brandon, did you really? Not cool. Infrastructure owned that.

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I think it was left abandoned and unlabeled on a general workshop table for a couple weeks

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That doesn’t mean you can get rid of it.

I demand Automotive purchase a replacement.
EDIT: I will be purchasing a key-cutter and charging it to Automotive.

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Why does automotive get hit with this when someone left it out on a table and left it unlabeled?

Did they not do the right thing by putting it up on the donation shelf? What would other areas have done and what do you proposed should have been done?

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You must be new here. :wink: Automotive is Brandon’s committee.

If you don’t know where something goes, you don’t get to give it away. Try the lost and found or something less permanent.

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Thanks!
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Let’s take this down a notch, shall we?

I’m pretty sure you have no basis to charge it to Automotive. If you try, I’ll put the motion in to the Board Meeting to have you suspended, myself. This would be a grave mis-use of your position.

Brandon was doing exactly what I’ve seen you and others do, countless times: If something isn’t obviously labelled as being part of a committee’s stuff and sits around for weeks on a table, it goes to donation. If we didn’t have some sort of garbage collection process going every so often, DMS would look like my garage.

Now, if you’d like, you can file a grievance against Brandon personally, but I think that’s probably not “being excellent”. He didn’t know, and it wasn’t marked as DMS property (which everything should be IMO). He was dealing with someone’s trash as best he knew how.

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Do it.

What position?

Name one example of me doing this.

I wish someone would do this, though. Perhaps you can do this?

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https://dallasmakerspace.org/wiki/Infrastructure_Committee

I really, really hope you can connect the dots on that one.

I’m not a stenographer, so I don’t have a time/place dated transcript, but you have uttered the words “Welp! Ok! It goes on the donation shelf!” while gleefully carting items off which were left in classrooms. I’ll be more vigilant to note when you do this in the future.

Every committee chair and committee member should do this, especially when the items are lightweight and easily misplaced. I have labelled a few things during my time in Machine Shop.

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Placing the brand new National Instruments box that a board member placed in the locked and secure server room out on the lost and found.

We may call it the server room, but it is currently the only secure location we have to place valuable items. I would also note you did this while the thief still had access to the space.

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Is NOT the same as the donation shelf.

Without my knowledge. I also want to make clear… Server Room.

I would like to also note that this was before we knew the theft was happening.

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Brooks I will be glad to provide a list of threads where you have put people’s stuff on the donation shelf, not to mention just throwing it out. I am sure many still remember the plant you took from science and threw out.

BUT, taking the NI lab bench that we just paid more then two grand out of locked storage and putting it where the thief had access to it was way over the top.

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Please do. I cannot recall them.

Actually, I do not recall this either. When was this?

Again, actually the Server Room.

Double again, before we knew the thief was out-and-about.

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It’s also the room that Infrastructure owns. Each committee chair has control over their area. Wouldn’t it make sense to inform the chair before putting something in there?

Board members are nothing outside of board meetings. And again, individual Board Members don’t control the Server Room.

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Sorry, but your mistaken. The thief had been stealing things from Electronics since last fall, which is why a board member placed it in the only secure place we had to keep it safe.

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Unbeknownst to me! :open_mouth:

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Brooks I find it unlikely you didnt know since we have been talking about it on the talk forum since the fall and the cleaning session where you were present.

I also know you were personally involved in the discussions with Ken about the problems with using the security camera to identify the thief as I was present for some of those conversations.

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