I would appreciate any advice or thoughts on the situation — I'm a developer at a large “up and coming” tech company. The company is doing really well and stood out during the pandemic which put us in the position to receive a large series of funding (think hundreds of millions).
At the beginning of shelter in place I was loaned two monitors as a full time office employee. In the intervening years I've moved to full time remote for health reasons. I was asked to return my monitors as the office needs the additional hardware to support the return to office. But then they offered to sell me the monitors if I didn't want to return them and the price they offered the monitors at is higher than the value they sell for used.
I thought they needed the monitors to support the return to office? They have been asking me for months to return the monitors and I feel frustrated by the principal of the request; I need the monitors to perform my job. Why do I have to pay for my work equipment — I'm not a contractor? Obviously if I ever leave the company I would return the monitors.
I've heard the CEO of the company imply that employees who do not want to return work equipment are behaving entitled which further cemented my position on this.