would you take yoru shredding to work?

[EleanorReally]

they shouldnt know?

I have a confidential waste cupboard (it looks like a teak cupboard with a slot in it) in my own office at work. It's locked and can only be opened by the firm that comes to empty it. However, I also have a small shredder that sits beside it and I shred things which I don't feel comfortable putting into the cupboard. I don't fully trust these document disposal systems. I have a shredder at home for personal stuff.

I think I may have trust issues

I absolutely would and have on occasion. My volunteers also do. We have a shredder and not a company so we all shred individually. No issue with it at all.

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I do, but it's not much volume as I just tear off the corners with our name address etc and put those in the confidential waste.

that is a good idea

I do this all the time.
I'm always in work way earlier than everyone else and that's my time to shred.
The shredder at work is great, it cuts the paper into confetti but also crinkles it, so its impossible to piece back together.

Strip cut shredders are not effective and the info can be pieced back together again quite easily.

We don't have a shredder at work, boss doesn't like them for reasons known only to himself, but if we did I absolutely would.

What is the point of having any sort of office based job if you're not occasionally using the shredder/printer for personal reasons?

Absolutely. Ours gets collected once a week regardless of how much paper there is, so I'm not adding to costs anyway.

I do with odd bits and pieces. I work at home sometimes and use my electricity, printer paper and ink so I figure it all comes out in the wash.

No because I have my own shredder.

we dont actually shred, it goes off somewhere

So your company are paying for the privilege of shredding your documents. That would be gross misconduct where I work.

I would! Not piles and piles but the odd bank statement yea for sure.

I did before I had my own shredder. Not a huge amount but very personal papers I didn't want to leave intact.

Now I have a home shredder and drop it into the compost bin. Helps make lovely compost with all the vegetation that goes in there.

Why not just ask if you can? Companies I've worked for have allowed it if you ask and don't take the piss, likewise with printing documents or buying a ream/box of paper/envelopes, etc., on the stationery order.

thanks, i dont want to ask, the bureaucracy involved would be too great.
we do have a key to the confidential waste so I have decided against it,
i remember seeing a colleague shred her cheque book, years ago, in the works shredder.
i have purchased my own today.
now to decide if i want to shred or keep old bills

Yes I do.

I do. It's all collected by a waste shredding company, they charge by the bin and the bins are never more than a quarter full.

Yes I do. We have a big industrial one and I put mine in there.

Yes, I take mine in regularly. I usually fill an A4 envelope and then pop the whole thing into the confidential waste. Voila! Gone in an instant.

I used to go in early and put stuff through the office shredder, but I found it so satisfying I bought my own one for home!

I do sometimes but we have confidential waste bins that are collected and put in a shredder van outside once a week