Posted on 02/17/2006 by corporateSlave
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Talking to a friend of mine over lunch today got us thinking about things we have stole (either directly or indirectly) from work. So I said I would propose an informal poll on this site and see what comes up. I figured since we're all anonymous, we might be more forthcoming (or maybe even boastful) ^-^
I'll start:
Forgive me Father JobSchmob for I have sinned. It has been 17 years since my last confession.
I stole 3 packs of pens and a staple remover last month. 2 packs of ball points and 1 pack of Sharpies. I needed the staple remover and I needed the sharpies for some signs I had to make for my nephew's school project. Lame? Maybe but I didn't get a raise this year!! So...I made my own!!
POST A COMMENTRedStapler(02/17/2006)
... I stole (in no particular order) a 3-hole-puncher (totally on accident, but have no intentions of returning it), and a few highlighters. If my stapler had been red, I would have taken that too, but it was black.
TwinOne(02/17/2006)
I have taken lots of pens. I also took my stapler and tape dispenser when I left my last job.
TheNewGuy(02/17/2006)
Hmmm...binders and sheet protectors are probably what I'm most guilty of "borrowing". i happen to notice that an ink cartridge that was sitting in the supply cabinet was the same as my home model. That was an easy $20 saved. And like everyone else pens, highlighters and the occasional notepad.
Madness(02/17/2006)
This is so bad but once for Christmas I wrapped the following gifts for family (compliments of the office): tape dispensers, tape refills (man those came in handy when wrapping), whole packages of post-it notes, highlighters, sharpies, staplers, (drum roll please) and as a gift favor on top they each got a single packet serving of coffee (compliments of the break room).
Bankrupt Luck(02/17/2006)
I worked for a high-speed startup company in 2001. They were out of Atlanta, but needed an associate to represent the Chicago area so they paid to get my entire home office hooked up (this included 4-drawer file cabinet, laptop, white board, printer, cartridges...). Anyway, when they filed Chapter 11 I was suppose to "ship" all company belongings back to them according to a letter from some law firm. Knowing postage on on this crap would cost more than what it was worth... I shipped back my employee manual and my ID badge and kept the rest!
disillusioned(02/17/2006)
Its all about LAMINATING, my friends.. ...not laminating my friends, just everything paper.
vanilla ginger(02/17/2006)
Paper. Legal size and letter size for the home printer.
Walk The Planks(02/19/2006)
I once worked at a retail store, like Walgreen's, that is now out-of-business. The store was open 24-hours-a-day and had a horrible problem with its employees. It seems that the employees would come into work on their off-duty hours and go on shopping sprees, filling shopping carts with stuff, whatever they wanted -- even cigarettes. Then they would carry bags and bags and bags and bags of goods out of the store without paying a cent for any of the merchandise. There was such a huge burglary ring there. The employees felt that since the store wasn't paying them enough and was denying them benefits -- they were taking what they were owed. The employees sought compensation in their own way. Oh, my God, it was so shameful!
SouthernProgrammer(02/20/2006)
Oh man this reminded me of something funny. Many years ago when I was just starting out I worked at business that had a warehouse attached. The warehouse was usually only busy in the summer and usually had high school kids as workers who unloaded trucks in the non-ac warehouse. It was miserably hot there and one of the few perks the kids had was two soda machines that dispensed 10OZ glass bottles for 10 cents. The company had some deal with a local well known cola maker that supplied them with cola for a ridiculously low price. The price in the main office vending machines was a bit higher so most people walked over to the warehouse to get the 10 cents cola. Now, in the book-keeping department worked a man named "Benny". Benny had been there forever and was notoriously cheap, he drove an early 50's chevy that had a 6 cylinder, no air, and three speed on the column and he NEVER drove it above 50 to get maximum gas mileage and when he would hit the long driveway to work he would actually cut the motor off and roll down the hill with just enough speed to roll to his parking space near the entrance to the warehouse. During the summer the kids worked hard to get in front of him and would hit the brakes, forcing him to restart his engine which irritated him to no end. Benny would restock the machines on Friday evenings using an old shopping cart and (as the kids told me one day and I later observed) would use this elaborate route to go around the warehouse and down less-used aisles to eventually go out a side door where he would load up a case into the trunk of his car! I observed him one time from afar and had to laugh while one of kids near me hummed the tune from "mission impossible". He was eventually caught and mildly reprimanded, he was eventually put on suspension for clocking his beloved neice in and out while she was really absent from work.
granularity(02/20/2006)
A ream of copy paper so my kids could make paper snowflakes for christmas.
RedStapler(02/24/2006)
One of my 6 rommates in college worked at a grocery store as a check-out clerk. Anyway he use to tell us how he'd have his friends come in to grocery shop, and he'd only swipe the cheap items and would just pretent to swipe everything else on the scantron. I found out about this after he quit, but I always wondered how he afforded all the top shelf liquors, cigars, and beers on a clerks salary.
Crocodile Dundee(03/11/2006)
That accountant so cheap he'd shut off the engine to glide to the parking space is amazing. Now, THAT is cheap. I thought I was bad with using the fast idle in the morning to start rolling.
just me (02/17/2006)
Umm...ok you got me. I "borrowed" a whole stack of paper cups from the breakroom for a party I was having.
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