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mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

My father is a scientist and had a lab at a hospital. He used to steal some cool stuff. Back in the early '70s when stainless steel was rare and expensive we had a lot of stainless steel pans in the kitchen. You know the kind of pans that hold organs and bloody medical equipment... Most of the scissors I got in my pencil case always had funny bends in them... for cutting casts...

Anyway, the stealing from unguarded work stockrooms bug really caught on with me. Like father, like son. Sort of. I never really scored anything big or cool like surgical equipment. Mostly paper. At one company that was shutting down our office, I stole an emergency blanket from the medical cabinet.

Back in Seattle, when I was laid off, and my lay off was postponed for a month, I spent a month stealing sharpies and staplers. I'm not sure why I was big on staplers, however. I ended up walking off with about 12 staplers. What was I going to do with 12 staplers? The sharpies always come in handy, mind you, for labeling CDs etc.

When I got transferred from Toronto to Seattle, I never really let the Seattle network guy know the laptop I took with me was the Toronto office's. So I ended up keeping that...

JAWINSEOUL · Joined: 19 Nov 2005

I �Allegedly� took the following from my place of business.

 A twenty pound box of New York steaks
 Numerous lobsters
 Perforated leather to make a bean bag chair
 Money, to replace the raise I was promised
 Smoked glass for a coffee table I was making

Toronto is a heaven for the liberator of work related paraphernalia.

antoniothegreat · Joined: 28 Aug 2005 Location: Yangpyeong

i delivered pizzas, and a lot of times Coke would send out free samples of new products, like vanilla coke, maybe about 20 cases. somehow, usually 1/5th of those cases ended up in my trunk.

i also somehow found a stack of 200 free pizza coupons (no purchase neccasary)

my current school's laptop would be a great grab...

Hobophobic · Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 4:54 pm Post subject:

....toilet paper....those big a$$ rolls...not much on texture...but they keep going and going and going and.... Smile

Tiberious aka Sparkles · Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: I'm one cool cat!

The secretary.

Sparkles*_*

riley · Joined: 08 Feb 2003 Location: where creditors can find me

Pizza, (though that can be a perk not theft), big jugs of soap and toilet paper, and paper. (It was some nice quality paper that one of my hagwons had, and great to write on)

Yu_Bum_suk · Joined: 25 Dec 2004

Nobody steals more from workplaces than security guards.

crazylemongirl · Joined: 23 Mar 2003 Location: almost there...

Nothing but if I track down those bastards who keep knicking my pens there will be trouble!

Qinella · Joined: 25 Feb 2005 Location: the crib

Only thing I ever stole was money, because I was due a bonus for perfect balancing (teller at a bank) but was cheated out of it due to a technicality (I accidentally closed out of balance, but was really in, and they wouldn't change it in the system). So, I took what I felt was mine.

Normally, I wouldn't have done that. I was growing resentful of my job and being treated so badly, though, that I justified it. And let me tell you, stealing from a bank and getting away with it is not easy. Tellers get caught all the time.

You gotta get the numbers just right.

Q.

Zyzyfer · Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 8:04 pm Post subject:

I'm a pretty lazy klepto in the workplace. Mostly just food-related stuff, like hiking the tare up to insane levels on the salad bar food, snagging the first piece of pizza out of the pie so everyone could eat it for free, stuff like that. But I was at one job where the guy stole like half the store over the course of 6 months. It was insane...clothes, shotglasses, drinks and food, the works. He stole like 20 Tommy Hilfiger shirts when he finally got caught; he had filled up a big black trash bag with a bunch of crap and someone eventually noticed and they let him go, but they never found out about everything else.

I don't steal anything at work now because there's nothing to steal. I could probably steal a computer or something, but somehow I think they'd notice...

Dev · Joined: 18 Apr 2006

Stealing from work is NOT cool because usually it's not your boss that winds up paying fo it, but innocent people who have nothing to do with your problem.

I used to work in a hospital. I know that so many staff would steal bottles of handcream, bandages, Tylenol, surgeon gloves, batteries... whatever was not under lock and key. These people suck, man! They are paid very fair wages and get great benefits like 8% vacation pay (4% is the national standard). This is in Canada where the taxpayers will have to pick up the costs of these lost supplies. Some people have no morals.

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

Xerxes · Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 9:58 pm Post subject:

I've seen a lot of guys steal after they got some pot in them. Something about pot just makes an ordinary person just a klepto.

I don't actually remember anytime stealing stuff, although I am not for or against it per se. I usually stole a lot of stuff after I drank like a fish, part of the reason I gave up the sauce for good--I acted like an idiot and I would rather do that sober (another part is that it is in my genetic make-up and I could drink anybody under the table making me a good candidate for being an alki--Betty Ford man).

Dan The Chainsawman · Joined: 05 May 2005

The biggest thing I stole from work was a week's worth of groceries so I had something to eat during my week off for knee surgery.

Son Deureo! · Joined: 30 Apr 2003