I picked up a few Dell P2210t 22″ widescreen LCD monitors the other day.

Very nice!

As part of my asset acquisition process, I have to document serial numbers and assign an asset tags to each new asset. When I turned the monitor around, though, I ran in to a problem:

WTH?

Hey, uh, Dell? Did you forget something?

Well, actually they didn’t. Apparently all of the required labeling is too much of an ‘eye sore’, so Dell has decided to hide it:

Pretty Sneaky, Dell

I would have appreciated it if Dell would have made more of an effort to point out where it is (I actually had to refer to the unpacking diagram to show me), but that’s it. Hidden with the USB ports is a small little pull-out card. Now that I know it’s there, though, it does make it easier to get a serial number off of a monitor when I have to figure out which asset belongs to which program when someone has inevitably pulled off the asset tag.

Fun Fact – Number of times the word ‘ass’ appears in this post: 6.