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to steal from work <lighthearted>

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AlpacaPicnic · 06/12/2013 14:38

I have lost my job. My last day is on Christmas eve. I have a new job for next year but on reduced income...

Would I be unreasonable to supplement my income by 'acquiring' a few of those industrial sized toilet rolls for my house... Just a couple would last me ages and make me laugh when I see them!

So mnjury... Should I?!

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SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 06/12/2013 15:10

Well - I wouldn't, but I will be told I am a sanctimonious kill-joy, I expect....

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AlpacaPicnic · 06/12/2013 15:11

I promise that it is not a small business that would suffer financially for the loss of two toilet rolls. It is a big employer that has promoted several people into highly paid jobs recently and then laid off about a dozen or so customer facing workers.

Customers will suffer. I am very angry but trying to keep positive :-D

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HootShoot · 06/12/2013 15:12

I wouldn't because I couldn't steal what wasn't mine no matter the circumstances.

FracturedViewOfLife · 06/12/2013 15:14

I stole two packets of cheese and onion crisps and drank a shot of Archers when I left a job in a pub Blush

LineRunner · 06/12/2013 15:17

How is theft lighthearted?

Gawd, there's always one, isn't there? Grin

HaroldTheGoat · 06/12/2013 15:17

It's not as bad as leaving your actual poo behind, which I have known to have happened.

MardyBra · 06/12/2013 15:20

Could you think of a creative way to satisfy your revenge cravings without resorting to petty crime? Wink

KungFuBustle · 06/12/2013 15:20

When I left my banking job I ran a programme that rounds down the 0.1p of interest on all interest calculations instead of rounding up, they all go into a secret bank account.

Too small to notice but millions of transactions later....

LaQueenAnd3KingsOfOrientAre · 06/12/2013 15:22

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KungFuBustle · 06/12/2013 15:31

I know exactly what you mean.

pianodoodle · 06/12/2013 15:36

To think it's okay to indulge in petty crime so long as you post afterwards to lie about say how overcome with remorse you are?

You can't get away with jack-shit on MN, unless you're really, really, really sorry about it.

Yep, if Rastamouse has taught us anything (and it has), it's that you can pretty much get away with anything so long as you look suitably sad at the end :)

Anything from theft to abducting little orphans apparently Grin

obviouslyneedsupernanny · 06/12/2013 15:38

Go for it, might as well take a few pens while you're at it.

honeybeeridiculous · 06/12/2013 15:38

When my friend was made redundant as the leisure centre closed down where she worked, everyone gutted the place, she gave me loads of polish, electrical tape will find a use for it one day and disinfectant Hmm somebody even pilfered the empty till and the fridge Grin
Go for it I say!

obviouslyneedsupernanny · 06/12/2013 15:38

And delete this thread after, we don't want to be accessories to your crime Wink

MardyBra · 06/12/2013 15:39

And the BBC condones it in Hustle. As long the perpetrators perceive the victims to be money-grabbing capitalists. Or not very good eggs.

trice · 06/12/2013 15:39

Op, you have three weeks left in order to snip the light pull in half in the ladies loo, drop pebbles on desks, create mysterious cold spots and scratch threatening words into the paintwork. Your soon to be ex Co-workers will really enjoy it. It is Christmas after all.

HootShoot · 06/12/2013 15:42

I didn't read the last thread trice did the ghost turn out to be an employee?

Talkinpeace · 06/12/2013 15:54

years ago I resigned from a job
I needed a new phone.
there were 6 in boxes on the shelf that had never been used
so I decided to remove one from a box
my colleagues had obviously thought the same way - as I emptied the last box Wink

LineRunner · 06/12/2013 15:56

Exactly, Mardy. It's all very Robin Hood.

Talkinpeace · 06/12/2013 15:59

when I (along with all my colleagues) was made redundant in a particularly unpleasant way during a takeover, the view of the line managers was that "they bought the shares not the office"
so they and we gutted the place
I still have furniture, hole punches, rulers, desk tidies
we were taking book cases home on the roofs of cars
I believe the new carpet in one office walked that day as well

LineRunner · 06/12/2013 16:01

I would have taken the windows.

HootShoot · 06/12/2013 16:03

This is a confession that will make me the biggest kill joy on the thread. In my last job I worked in HR and dismissed a person for stealing loo roll. I also dismissed someone else who was being made redundant. Not for stealing loo roll but for nicking stock. They lost their redundancy pay and reference and weren't very happy about it. Sorry for being a big miserable grump but it might be worth considering plus it's wrong to steal

ProphetOfDoom · 06/12/2013 16:04

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Panzee · 06/12/2013 16:04

Arfing at life lessons from Rastamouse. I should start watching!

Talkinpeace · 06/12/2013 16:08

Hootshoot
we were safe : HR team got treated worst of all - had to go to the DHSS to get their P45s as the head of payroll at the company taking us over withheld them
we were treated appallingly and when they were taken over a year later, some of us had joined the bigger company.
Revenge was served straight from the freezer.

AS a small business adviser I've also had people arrested for theft etc
but when you see what bosses deem acceptable, its hard to feel guilt