EMC Engineer Steals Almost $1 Million of Kit One Piece at a Time

aesoteric writes "An EMC test engineer has pleaded guilty to stealing almost $1 million worth of kit from his employer. He reportedly stole the unspecified goods from the storage giant's North Carolina factory using 'a small bag' to smuggle the kit out before selling it on the internet under a pseudonym."

Im sorry - define Kit

[Anonymous Coward]

Im sorry - define Kit? thanks

Obligatory dumb question:

[Announcer]

What is "kit" in this instance?

"Kit and kit! What is kit?!" - Spock's Brain

wire fraud

[Iamthecheese]

wire fraud? seriously? These tack-on charges make a mockery of the law.

Re:Obligatory dumb question:

[fotbr]

equipment

And because slashdot requires me to wait a certain amount of time before replying with what should be a one word answer, and because one word isn't a good enough answer, you get this annoying run on sentence of complete crap before I can post so I'll just keep typing random stuff to kill some time.

Re:Obligatory dumb question:

[migla]

What is "kit" in this instance?

Could be any number of things, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kit [wikipedia.org]

In this instance, I think it's most likely referring to baby ferrets.

Re:Im sorry - define Kit

[Austerity Empowers]

Zippers can be a bitch.

Re:Im sorry - define Kit

[keeboo]

Dude, it's EMC we're talking about.

Most likely the $1 million kit consists of:
- A 250GB 5400 RPM SATA EMC-certified HD
- A pair of official EMC plastic brackets.

Re:No support contract is a crime?

[Grishnakh]

Absolutely. Remember, this occurred in the USA, where corporations write the laws. This is why this guy, who probably stole a handful of hard drives worth about $2k (which EMC marks up to $1m), is going to jail for 30-something years, while a rapist or murderer can easily get out in 5 or 10.

Re:Yes...

[dbIII]

You get enough gear and you don't need much support. For example once the yearly support costs for IBM3590 tape drives hit more than the cost of a reconditioned one it was just well past time to buy spares and show people how to switch them over. There are plenty of third party repairers for a lot of gear so long as you have plenty of time to get things fixed. Support is rarely as good as advertised so it's best to avoid every needing it at all is possible. Where I am none of the vendors even bother to have local support staff so not even the simplest thing is going to get fixed within a day by a vendor anyway. In the past one support call involved two days of attempting to convince the vendor that our one and only computer of the type they dealt with was actually covered by quite an expensive contract. It's a pain trying to deal with a vendors failure of their internal records system fractured by a takeover as well as fixing your own gear - after two days and several dozen calls I told them to leave me alone and refund the remainder of the contract.