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[plattwaz]

The worst thing I guess that I've taken (I can't really call it "Stealing"..) was a customer list with contact information and details of our major customers. Used it to find a new job...and took it with me when I left just in case I needed it again. Came in handy for building up new clients in my new position (as a headhunter ).

At one place I worked in hi-tech, someone stole three of our fibre-optic spectrometers and a bunch of nano-gram weigh scales (actually I'm not a techie and it's been a long time since I worked there so maybe I have the names of them wrong). The total value was about $500,000 - the job that we were using them for was on a tight timeline and the loss of equipment ended up costing our factory the order, which in the end sent is in a downward spiral that caused us to shut down manufacturing operations and ultimately close our office.

Then I was REALLY glad I had stolen that customer contact list from my previous job!!!

[OiGirl]

[JongnoGuru]

Mindmetoo: What have you stolen from work?

JongnoGuru: "What haven't I stolen from work?" would be easier to answer, at least as far as my current job goes. If my boss here were to visit my home before I had a chance to "arrange things", or took a peak in my tool cabinet, studio or library, I'd be dead. Prior to Korea I generally had too much respect for my employers and pride in myself to do anything like that.

[SPINOZA]

I must confess I was once charged with theft from my employer (Tesco) in 1998/99 when I was 20. I stole some bottles of expensive aftershave. I won't go into loads of detail, but basically I got away with it (not guilty said a jury). I was lucky.

I don't do it anymore of course, but I have a history of theft from employers. Main example: I used to steal money from a bar/restaurant simply by not typing some drinks into the cash register. Very profitable. Owner was a rich Italian - so rich he never noticed losses of at least 100GBP per week. I'm no stranger to bar work, so naturally many gallons of free alcohol have passed through my system over the years. I was more drunk than the punters half the time. So I got free booze and free money. Good times. As pure irony would have it, I was dismissed from that job because I was accused of stealing something I didn't! (servers' tips. I'd never do that - that's really scummy!)

[Natalia]

Telling my father's story because mine is boring (the best I can do is a double Christmas CD).

- Shelves (which were later made into a computer desk).
- Two computers.
- A printer.
- A VCR and remote control.
- Two computer chairs.
- A Step-Reebok - when they were in fashion.
- A guillotine.
- A century's worth of office supplies.

There's a lot more. And the weird thing is, everybody probably knows about it and still thinks he's fantastic.

My brother took an old computer from school once, and a teacher caught him while he was making his escape on the bus. All they said was that he would be better going back and swapping it for a newer model.

[jacl]

[OiGirl]