I quit my job effective April 19th and I still have the laptop, two monitors, and a box full of random peripherals (all unopened) the employer sent to me when I started. I should note that I explicitly asked them NOT to send me monitors and other hardware before I started, but they were sent anyway as part of an automated process I guess.
I’ve since asked multiple times to send these items back so I’m not held financially responsible for them. I finally got the company to send a box/return auth for the laptop, but when asking about the rest of the equipment, they responded with:
> Currently, our IT team is unable to accept items larger than laptops. Once offices have been deemed safe to re-open, Employee Experience and IT will communicate the next steps via your personal email address.
I don’t want the financial responsibility or the physical burden of storing and protecting this equipment anymore, but they refuse to let me send it back. What recourse do I have?
I just sent them an email with an ultimatum to either accept the items, forfeit them, or pay for me to insure and store them off site within 30 days. I don’t know if that will be enough to make them take their equipment back. Do I have any legal obligation to continue storing these items for an undetermined amount of time months after I’ve left the company? (The company is based in the U.S.)
I’ve since asked multiple times to send these items back so I’m not held financially responsible for them. I finally got the company to send a box/return auth for the laptop, but when asking about the rest of the equipment, they responded with:
> Currently, our IT team is unable to accept items larger than laptops. Once offices have been deemed safe to re-open, Employee Experience and IT will communicate the next steps via your personal email address.
I don’t want the financial responsibility or the physical burden of storing and protecting this equipment anymore, but they refuse to let me send it back. What recourse do I have?
I just sent them an email with an ultimatum to either accept the items, forfeit them, or pay for me to insure and store them off site within 30 days. I don’t know if that will be enough to make them take their equipment back. Do I have any legal obligation to continue storing these items for an undetermined amount of time months after I’ve left the company? (The company is based in the U.S.)