"Stealing" free things from work

[FickleUsernameChooser]

WIBU to pocket about 6-8 sachets of the free sugar that comes with the free tea and coffee at work for when I go camping next week?

It feels wrong although I'd argue if I was here I'd be using them anyway (and possibly more) and it is offered free anyway. Seems a bit pointless to have to pack a bigger container of sugar.

[mignonette]

It is theft and if caught (or somebody wants to grass you up) it will be grounds for gross misconduct and immediate termination of post.

You know that I think.

[ThatBloodyWoman]

Don't get caught.

[AMumInScotland]

It feels wrong because it is wrong.
If you're on leave then you wouldn't 'be using them anyway'.

Unless your company have a policy of keeping their employees supplied with sugar in their homes, then it is stealing.

It's a tiny amount, but then it's hardly difficult to pack a tiny little tupperware box of your own sugar, is it?

[FickleUsernameChooser]

I know technically it's theft but it would seem daft to get sacked for 24g of sugar that is offered to everybody on a daily basis.

[ThatBloodyWoman]

Why take the chance for 24g of sugar though?

[Davsmum]

Ask your boss or someone if you may take some.

[WooWooOwl]

I wouldn't take sugar sachets from work, but I would take them from the places that sell be priced coffee when buying one. I nearly always pick up a few sachets of sweetner when getting a coffee at the airport before going on holiday.

[FickleUsernameChooser]

Depends on whether you have a small Tupperware box already :)

I'm uncomfortable enough with it that I probably wouldn't ever dare just in case but it feels less black and white than stationery stealing (which I also would not do, although occasionally accidentally take pen home in handbag it is always brought back the next day)

[grocklebox]

jesus christ, really?

Gross misconduct? Maybe on Insane Petty No-Shades-of-Grey Planet.

Bloody take it if you want.

[BeCool]

It would be daft to get sacked for it.
What do you want us to tell you? "Do it, steal the sugar?".

You could just put a tiny bit of sugar from your home into a plastic bag and save yourself the angst and moral dilemma couldn't you?

[callamia]

Why not just take one at a time when you make a cup of tea? Taking them all at once sounds a bit weird. I don't think it's cause for end of days woe...

[PittTheYounger]

IME these little things are the ones that in the end can bite you RIGHT on the arse

in the meantime CAN YOU NOT AFFORD SUGAR?

[BeCool]

I've not bought a pen for over 25 years.

I have no concerns about this.

[thatstoast]

I would but I'm such a rebel

[grovel]

You could take in some loose sugar in a bowl and then take the equivalent away in sachets.

[Davsmum]

Go to a Cafe that lets you help yourself to however many sachets you want when you order a coffee. Better still, give up sugar.

[OatcakeCravings]

Jesus wept take the sugar!

[BornToFolk]

I wouldn't even think twice about taking a handful of sugar packets home. Or a pen, or a packet of post-it notes.

Any company that would sack an otherwise good employee for stealing something worth pennies is insane.

[PittTheYounger]

OP you tight feck
here are some on ebay fgs
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Tate-Lyle-White-Sugar-Sachets-White-Sugar-Sticks-100-Sachets-/121385969123?pt=UK_Home_Garden_Food_SM&hash=item1c432ae5e3

[FickleUsernameChooser]

I'm not exactly asking them to fund my sugar addiction :) just they are so handy.

Just interested in people's thoughts on the matter as to whether it was proper stealing or not.

[FickleUsernameChooser]

Hah yes I should probably buy some, even if I then never use the other 90 :)

[ThatBloodyWoman]

On the basis of morals I would do it.
On the basis of really needing my job, I wouldn't take the chance.

Even taking from a bin is technically stealing, and if anyone is looking for candidates to shrink the workforce, taking some sugar could put you on the list.

[PickleMyster]

Can you not just stick £1 in petty cash?

[CorporateRockWhore]

Jeez, I live for robbing biscuits from the kitchen when The Company Biscuit Watcher isn't looking. It makes me smile. Do it!

[FickleUsernameChooser]

Ooh Pickle, if our office had petty cash I would do that. Darn sensible idea.