are you on the take?

copacetic

apparently given the opportunity 78.7% of people will commit petty crime, keep the over change they got, steal pens from employers/bank/argos.
What are the boards stats?

Jesus Wept

If taking plastic pens is a crime, then lock me up.

Quality

my xmas cards will be franked!!

themadchef

I know here i'm getting my turkey

copacetic

The-Rigger wrote: »

If taking plastic pens is a crime, then lock me up.

only plastic ones?

Kimbot

Ah i haven't a thing from work here ******Runs off to hide a few bits in the wardrobe******* Not a thing...

connundrum

I tend to stock up stuff without meaning it, genuinely.

I've pens, paper, keys to buildings, spare wheels from company cars etc etc.

Kintarō Hattori

I rang a supplier back today to tell them that they had under charged us by €800. They had already invoiced us and I could just as well have said nothing. I tend to be too honest.

humbert

eo980 wrote: »

I rang a supplier back today to tell them that they had under charged us by €800. They had already invoiced us and I could just as well have said nothing. I tend to be too honest.

Cept when you're cybering behind your poor girlfriends back of course

I tend not to take things, well maybe the odd pen.

projectmayhem

when leaving work (to go home, get lunch, etc.) a security guard checks us with an airport metal detector thing. i'll find a way to rob some ipods though. bwahahahaha.....

Potential-Monke

projectmayhem wrote: »

when leaving work (to go home, get lunch, etc.) a security guard checks us with an airport metal detector thing. i'll find a way to rob some ipods though. bwahahahaha.....

Why iPods? Why not rob something useful?

copacetic

Potential-Monke wrote: »

Why iPods? Why not rob something useful?

yeah, like one of those airport metal detectors would be handy, trouser one of them.

projectmayhem

Potential-Monke wrote: »

Why iPods? Why not rob something useful?

i'll find it hard to secrete a 50" bravia anywhere...

copacetic wrote: »

yeah, like one of those airport metal detectors would be handy, trouser one of them.

i wonder if they have a reverse-effect on each other? like opposing magnets? though it could create a black hole and destroy the universe.

...i guess we'll never know.

copacetic

projectmayhem wrote: »

i'll find it hard to secrete a 50" bravia anywhere...



i wonder if they have a reverse-effect on each other? like opposing magnets? though it could create a black hole and destroy the universe.

...i guess we'll never know.

not sure about the universe but your nether regions might take a hammering alright..

smithy1981

Never went out of my way to steal something but if the opportunity arose then i'd probably take advantage. Bringing home stuff from work, buying counterfeit cloths,dvds etc.

copacetic

smithy1981 wrote: »

Never went out of my way to steal something but if the opportunity arose then i'd probably take advantage. Bringing home stuff from work, buying counterfeit cloths,dvds etc.

you can't beat a good counterfeit cloth alright, I picked up a set of 3 Ralph Lauren tea towels in chinatown when I was in new york for only $50. bling, bling.

smithy1981

copacetic wrote: »

you can't beat a good counterfeit cloth alright, I picked up a set of 3 Ralph Lauren tea towels in chinatown when I was in new york for only $50. bling, bling.

Excuse me, the counterfeit dictionary i bought is a load of bollix.

copacetic

smithy1981 wrote: »

Excuse me, the counterfeit dictionary i bought is a load of bollix.

Jim

Tasty snacks is the extend of it.

Terry

I tiled my hall and porch floors as a result of a clerical error.
Was fitting out a shop in Limerick and someone sent the sample tiles down twice.
I feel no guilt for taking advantage of someone's error.

JohnCleary

I'd rob the eye out of ye're socket! yar!

Cathmandooo

Quality wrote: »

my xmas cards will be franked!!

mine too sure that's the whole purpose of the machine


I admit to having the odd work pen in my bag! There's feck all of use to take from my office!

copacetic

JohnCleary wrote: »

I'd rob the eye out of ye're socket! yar!

i'm not really counting that as petty theft..

Kazu

wish i was :D

terrible at it found that out at 10

ScumLord

apparently given the opportunity 78.7% of people will commit petty crime, keep the over change they got, steal pens from employers/bank/argos.
What are the boards stats?


I stole your post, muhahaha :cool:

Office supplies are fair game.

Xavi6

If downloading music is included then I'm guilty as sin.

Did my fair share of strokin from previous employment. I saw it as a reward for the little work I did. Sure they were allowed a percentage of stock to be missing come audit time so they expected it. No harm done.

Gekko

I've got a load of free stuff this year in the course of my work - it includes gifts, travel, etc. - altogether worth around €6,000.

Firetrap

If there was anything in my workplace stealing, I would. But sadly there isn't.

Terry

Oh yeah.
I needed my bathroom tiled, so my old boss added on a couple of boxes for every private job we did. At the time, the tile was very popular, so after a month or so I had enough to do my bathroom.

copacetic

Terry wrote: »

I tiled my hall and porch floors as a result of a clerical error.
Was fitting out a shop in Limerick and someone sent the sample tiles down twice.
I feel no guilt for taking advantage of someone's error.

Terry wrote: »

Oh yeah.
I needed my bathroom tiled, so my old boss added on a couple of boxes for every private job we did. At the time, the tile was very popular, so after a month or so I had enough to do my bathroom.

any other interesting free tiles story there tel? They're deadly.

herbieflowers

lol

Terry

copacetic wrote: »

any other interesting free tiles story there tel? They're deadly.

I've banned people for less.,

copacetic

Terry wrote: »

I've banned people for less.,

for taking less tiles than they needed?

Terry

copacetic wrote: »

for taking less tiles than they needed?

Banned.

Sonnenblumen

Terry wrote: »

I tiled my hall and porch floors as a result of a clerical error.
Was fitting out a shop in Limerick and someone sent the sample tiles down twice.
I feel no guilt for taking advantage of someone's error.

Classy, two wrongs making a right?

copacetic

Terry wrote: »

Banned.

that time in the darkness outside ah was the worst 13 mins of my life. I am suitably cowed.

Zapp Brannigan

copacetic wrote: »

any other interesting free tiles story there tel? They're deadly.

That's probably my favouritest post ever.

I don't steal from work, no interest in anything really.

Terry

Sonnenblumen wrote: »

Classy, two wrongs making a right?

In this case, two wrongs make a nice hall floor.

Belfafter

Pretty much everybody steals.
From the perfect employee who uses a sick day to go fishing to the pub owner with the poker machine which will absolutly always win.
Car salesmen regularly sell above the minimum price they could sell at but are they stealing by making a bigger profit than absolutly necessary ?
I think not anyway but technically......

EamonnKeane

I got €67 instead of €47 in change a while back ... I gave the extra to a beggar outside the shop I felt really embarrassed in case someone saw and they'd be all like, what are you doing? but no-one did.

ScumLord

EamonnKeane wrote: »

I got €67 instead of €47 in change a while back ... I gave the extra to a beggar outside the shop I felt really embarrassed in case someone saw and they'd be all like, what are you doing? but no-one did.

HAHA, fool! He probably spent it on heroin.

l3LoWnA

From the perfect employee who uses a sick day to go fishing

I know plenty of people where I work who would never take a "sick" day to do anything except attend a doc or when they're ill (and I work in the Civil Service :eek: Imagine that!) Of course there's the ones who take their full "quota" of "sick" leave in a year and almost treat it as their god given right, even though there's not a thing wrong with them.

Have never taken anything from my work either, if I need stationary at home, I'll buy it, actually, many of us at work buy our own stuff to use at work (ie. tipex/tape dispensers/post-its - which are treated as luxuries in our place etc) If I find money and the owner of said cash can't be found, yes I'd keep it, but what am I supposed to do, give it away? Meh :rolleyes:

congo_90

bought a dvd player and a tv about 2months ago... paid in cash. The sales assistant gave me 110euro too much on top of my change. i could tell he was about to because he kept looking at me then the till and anxiously handed me my change. I walked out. counted then walked back in after checking and handed it back in.

In all fairness i know what it's like to have money go short from a till. I worked somewhere where even a euro missing would go out of your wage and anyone else in at the time. I never made a mistake on it though...

Work in a pub so the most i could rob is the odd pint glass, pack of nuts during work. not very interesting...

lostexpectation

isn't on the take more then the lameness described above, ie like acop talking moeny to look the other way from drug dealing or smuggling, or a person taking a bribe to supply goods on the cheap