Why steal stuff you can afford?

[YesQueen]

So not to be too identifying I'll change the details a little
I work for a company that sells luxury £££ products. Talking £90,000 cars/watches type thing, nothing is cheap!
I stock up the staff and customer toilets with sanitary products, usually supermarket own brand. I'm the only one with access to customer toilets so no other staff go in
Filled up with two full packs of pads, and a box of tampons (taken out the boxes and put into bags). Checked the next day, bags still there, all pads/tampons gone
I mean... why?!? It's a 50p pack of pads
And it happens every time they get filled so it's not just one customer

Maybe that's why the customers are so rich. They take whatever they can for free.
Often find that the rich people are the tightest and most careful with money.
Seems ludicrous to the average person.

Just because someone is wealthy it doesn't make them immune to grabbing the opportunity to take something for free.

How can you be sure it's not a staff member?

Because being a thief isn't income dependant.

@BooksAreMyOnlyFriends nobody else has access. I filled them in the morning and they were gone by 5pm. Different floor to staff toilets and we aren't allowed to use the customer ones and the cleaners come in first thing so it's not them

Oh I get it isn't income dependent, it just niggles me a bit
I can understand stealing food if you're skint, not that I'm saying that's fine.

People are nuts. I used to work for a company that organised group outings for a very expensive sport. I could almost always tell from someone’s post code (we rang them back after they’d filled in name, post code and tel no) who the people were that would argue the price. Always Kensington and Guildford people were the tightest. People from other places seemed to have actually looked at the prices before they phoned up to book. It’s weird.

Could you make a sign.

'Please feel free to make use of these sanitary products if you need them. If not, please leave them for others. Thank you'

Someone I worked with at the University got very drunk on a night out. She confessed that she regularly stole small items mainly cosmetics, as she loved the thrill of it. Probably people like her, I judged her for that. Then again a couple of years later she had an affair. Just had a dodgy moral compass overall.

i worked in a pub and was shocked at the amount of people who stole the glasses the drinks were served in

@louisvootin oh yeah, my dad ran a pub and stuff was literally glued down. Salt and pepper, Christmas ornaments, cutlery....

We ran a B&B and had huge tables full of teas, coffees and even a big selection of fruit and herbal teas in the suites. Biscuits too, all complimentary.
It was always the well to do, fancy folk that cleared them all. Some of those fruit teas were bloody horrible tasting but they still took every single one. Sometimes even the cup and saucer.

The seemingly down to Earth, common folk only used what they wanted and sometimes took a few bits for later.

Very odd. I can't imagine the Hyacinth Bucket types having tea and coffee at home made from pilfered catering sachets.

I don't think wealth comes into it really. I think it appeals to a more base area of the brain which sees something for free and just grabs it. It's all rather unbecoming in my view.

My ex stole a large fancy serving spoon from a restaurant in China Town.

He thought he had done something very clever. I didn’t know until after we left that he had taken it and hope to this day that the curse of Fu Manchu will one day catch up with him!

chester my gran used to nick those little pots of uht milk and sugar sachets from cafes. She took great pride in the fact she’d never purchased milk or sugar in her life. She was banned from most of the cafes in her home town as a result. Even when she got old and lived in a residential home whenever she went to the tea room she’d fill up her pockets with sugar. She was allowed to help herself as much as she wanted there but she still couldn’t resist! I blame that on her going through rationing. She always kept a years supply of tinned food in her flat, just in case.