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What things are you guilty of nicking from hotels?

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Teadrinker11 · 13/02/2022 21:30

I'm definitely guilty of stealing things from hotel rooms. I never go for anything overly big, usually teabags, toilet roll and the toiletries when I leave.
What are you guilty of nicking from hotels or your workplace?

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winnieanddaisy · 15/02/2022 23:57

When I was working in a hospital most of our patients were elderly and lots had no visitors to bring them necessities such as soap and shower gel . The hospital funded very little as patients are supposed to provide their own . As a team all the staff would bring the toiletries from any hotel holidays we had . I always felt as though I was stealing but as a PP said , we'd paid for them in the cost of the holiday . After Christmas we used to collect together all the unwanted gift sets we'd been given and bring them in for the use of the patients too.

Monopolyiscrap · 16/02/2022 00:03

@Sparklingbrook

I’ve a friend who works in a café she says they are continually having to buy replacement teaspoons. ☹️
I doubt they get stolen. They get lost just as they do in homes.
ImNotDancing · 16/02/2022 00:03

I don’t know why so many people are being weird about someone taking a loo roll. I once took the box of tissues from my hotel room as I had a stonking cold and didn’t fancy a dripping nose for a ten hour flight home

winnieanddaisy · 16/02/2022 00:04

@flowervest75 , you need to go on holiday to Turkey and visit the markets. They sell the most fabulous bath sheets. Mine are nearly the size of a single bed sheet and very thick and soft . I've had them about 10 years and they are like new !

Mamanyt · 16/02/2022 00:54

I don't. I grew up in the industry, being very aware of what those things cost. Now, anything that I have used a part of, excluding the toilet roll, I will take, as those things will be tossed in the trash. And I've taken a matchbook or twenty, but that's a planned expense for the hotel/motel/inn.

Sparklingbrook · 16/02/2022 05:48

I doubt they get stolen. They get lost just as they do in homes

She thinks they are stolen. How would they get lost in a cafe?

Monty27 · 16/02/2022 05:56

I grew up being taught that stealing is wrong. And it is.

liveforsummer · 16/02/2022 09:39

@Sparklingbrook

I doubt they get stolen. They get lost just as they do in homes

She thinks they are stolen. How would they get lost in a cafe?

I'm not sure how these things get lost in my house either tbh. It cannot be explained where all the socks and teaspoons are. I've always got less forks than I should do too.
WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 16/02/2022 10:06

I always pay for a bag if I use one. I'm so scared of being stopped

Is that your only reason? You don't just instinctively pay for them because they're something in a shop with a clearly-displayed price that's payable if you want to take them away with you?

Only just started reading this thread, so it may have already come up....but believe me people steal plenty from restaurants. I can't tell you how many pepper grinder, shot glasses, cutlery, bill holders (!) even that we have had taken over the years!

Yes, I was far too optimistic about other people's moral standards - a number of cafe and restaurant owners/workers have confirmed that they also have regular thefts.

Monopolyiscrap · 16/02/2022 10:10

@Sparklingbrook

I doubt they get stolen. They get lost just as they do in homes

She thinks they are stolen. How would they get lost in a cafe?

They are easily put in the bin by mistake when clearing up. I know people steal things. But unless she has posh cutlery, I don't believe there are lots of people desperate to steal a teaspoon from a cafe.
Enjoyingaquickdip · 16/02/2022 10:16

flowervest75

I also hope no one here has ever paid for their shopping but purposely didn’t scan the 20p shopping bag they’re meant to pay for. Seeing as ‘theft is theft,’ you’re nothing but a hypocrite🤷‍♀️

Nope never done that either, you sound absolutely delightful Hmm

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 16/02/2022 11:04

I know people steal things. But unless she has posh cutlery, I don't believe there are lots of people desperate to steal a teaspoon from a cafe.

They're not desperate - there are just some people who think they're clever by taking anything they can, be it a couple of teaspoons, a towel, a pint of milk off a doorstep or whatever. They just like the thrill of the theft and/or are stingey beyond words.

Monopolyiscrap · 16/02/2022 12:06

But a teaspoon!
I just think it is more likely they get lost and accidentally thrown away. Teaspoons are the one thing that goes missing from every house and venue in the country. I know nobody is stealing my teaspoons, but they still disappear.

TheDoveFromAboveCooCoo · 16/02/2022 12:13

We are always losing teaspoons. I blame the Teens for throwing them in the bin at the same time as their yoghurt puts.

At one point I would only let them take a plastic spoon in their pack up because I was buying a new set of spoons every month!

Roxy69 · 16/02/2022 15:42

@flowervest75

DP and I always take a couple of big towels just because we can😂 they’re always super long and so comfy. I love them lol
That's theft and bad.
Blossomtoes · 16/02/2022 15:45

We’re always losing teaspoons too and don’t have any teens to blame. I reckon they make a break for freedom as soon as you take your eye off them. They’re probably living their best life in the company of all the odd socks.

Sparklingbrook · 16/02/2022 16:45

They are easily put in the bin by mistake when clearing up
I know people steal things. But unless she has posh cutlery, I don't believe there are lots of people desperate to steal a teaspoon from a cafe

She’s worked there long enough to know that people are stealing the teaspoons.

Monopolyiscrap · 16/02/2022 17:02

She sees people stealing them?

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 16/02/2022 17:08

But a teaspoon!

Towels don't have to be that expensive, though, so I don't think it's people genuinely sizing up the value of an item, how much they need it and how desperate they are for it: they just do it because they're the sort of people who feel clever by stealing other people's property, whatever it is.

Sparklingbrook · 16/02/2022 17:08

@Monopolyiscrap

She sees people stealing them?
They collect trays that have a teapot,cup and saucer on. When they are taken to the table they also would have had a spoon for the tea on the saucer. 🤷‍♀️
Sparklingbrook · 16/02/2022 17:09

If you need any more information you’ll have to wait until I see her next.

MillieSav · 16/02/2022 17:12

Seriously who wants a towel that a hundred other people have used to dry their arses on !

Monopolyiscrap · 16/02/2022 17:12

@Sparklingbrook okay maybe some are stolen. But I know that teaspoons are the kind of thing easily knocked under the table. I have done that in cafes and your friend would suspect me of stealing.

Towels are about £10. That is a considerable amount so I can see why people steal them. Teaspoons though you can buy 5 for a £1.

Sparklingbrook · 16/02/2022 17:13

@MillieSav

Seriously who wants a towel that a hundred other people have used to dry their arses on !
TBF when you use it in the hotel that’s already the case. But they are washed between guests. Unless it’s a very downmarket establishment 🤔
ArticSaviour · 16/02/2022 17:14

Pens. All the pens.

In the days before Covid when I used to go to meetings/conferences in hotels, I would go round at the end and collect all the spare pens too.

I'm a teacher so they are not for me

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