<human>: The company that I spent the last three years working for is a very large worldwide corporation. I was just a small cog in the gears of the massive machine. Being that big, there was often a lot of waste. One of my tasks in I.T. was to take our old machines and stuff that didn't work anymore and send it to the e-waste area (just a big room in a basement) where it would wait before being picked up every couple of months. This was a collective e-waste area for all of the department in the vicinity (1000's of employees). This was trash, just not physically stored in a dumpster.

While down there, I found devices and machines that were nearly new and still in working order. Some really nice machines. These were trashed. I took them, tested them, and now use them.

The company was throwing away perfectly good computers (I'm talking current Mac Pros, HP Z800's, Monitors, etc), and other gear (Pelican cases in good condition, etc). So I snagged some stuff. I'm not planning to sell it or use it for financial gain, just for personal use. I asked around the company and as far as anyone knows they had to pay for the e-waste, they didn't get money back for it.

I can't help but feel guilty sometimes, like I stole this stuff. In total, I got probably $20k-30k worth of stuff that no one wanted.

So is what I did illegal?

Is what I did wrong?

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<bot>: I took over $20k worth of perfectly good computers and gear from the trash pile at my old company. Is that wrong?