To think is a ridiculous request (work)?

[Rizzo8]

Ive been working at a company in the next city for three years. I use two modes of transport to get there.

When I started they delivered all of my equipment like monitor etc direct to my flat recognizing it was too much to pick up.

Now I am leaving they initially offered to pick it up. But now my manager has now given his 2 cents and said he wants me to bring it myself because he doesn't fancy paying for the courier.

AIBU to simply refuse? It's going to be heavy and not easy for me to do this.

Tell them a couple of dates they can collect and choose a.m. or p.m. collection, a courier doesn't cost that much. I arrange them all the time when any of my staff leave. Just ensure you are in on the chosen date and time.

Your responsibility. You have to drop it off.

if they laid you off then they would be responsible.

Do you have proof they agreed to collect it? In an email or similar?
if so respond and say they agreed to collect it and you will box it all up and await details of when it’s being collected.
otherwise surely you have a friend or someone who would drive you to hand it in?

Tell them you will have the equipment ready for a courier to collect - how you received it is how it should be sent back. Do it in an email so that you have proof that you're willing to return, and if copy in your HR dept and your It dept as well.

In my previous role, after my friend left, the company decided they wanted the desk that they had paid for to be returned (bought after the start of covid as we were fully office based prior to that), a £70 IKEA desk, nothing fancy. My friend got the bus to work, and the company could not get it through their head that she couldn't simply fling it over her shoulder and lug it into work. At one point they were planning to have one of the directors drive up from the Scottish Borders to the outskirts of Glasgow, to pick up the desk and take it into the office in Glasgow city centre. Into an offfice, incidentally, that had a full complement of desks and no room for any more!!! Needless to say, they eventually backed off from this idea and allowed her to keep the desk. This summed them up as an organisation to be fair - I do not regret having moved on!!

You need to give more information about what it actually is ‘monitor etc’ isn’t very clear. They did you a favour in delivering it to you because they wanted you to be able to do your job. However ultimately when you leave it’s your responsibility to return the equipment they have loaned to you. Or you may get charged for it which will probably cost more than the cost for you to return it.

So, what happened then?