Hahaha fuck yeah!

Microwave, lounge, fridge, dozen office chairs and a shit load of stationary.

Nothing big but I’m the one in the office who decides what gets thrown away. It’s amazing what I find dumpster diving immediately after I’ve cleaned an area.

No.

If you’re not stealing from work, work is stealing from you

Oh this happened to me in reverse. My workplace (a client’s office, technically) dumped a bunch of stuff at my house without permission, and I did not keep it. Expected me to store boxes and boxes of financial records, for infinity years, no contract or anything. They also defaulted on money owed to me, which I had to pay taxes on, even though I received nothing. Never have I met such an arrogantly entitled company owner.

Sold it all as scrap paper. Recovered 0.005% of the money owed this way. Later their company was dissolved due to nonpayment of taxes. If they ever come back to the country, they may have heir passport withheld until they pay what’s owed. Which is whatever the tax department says it is, because they have no financial records.

So much shit. I work in restaurants so I take food all the time. My food budget is tiny.

Back when I was much more brazen, all my plates, cups, pots, pans and cleaning supplies were from work.

The rate at which I steal from work is directly proportional to my pay rate.

I always kept copies of my design/work even if my contract states that they belong to the company.

At this one office I worked at, none of their ergonomic equipment was asset-tagged for some reason, and everybody knew about it. So whenever somebody with a lot of ergo gear got fired or quit, it was a race to raid their desk and plunder their equipment. Management never looked into it because nothing was tagged, so they never qualified what equipment was given out in order to claim as missing in the first place.

I got a decent keyboard and trackball mouse out of it. I know a few people that managed to sneak out some of the $800+ chairs, but that always felt too risky to me.

At another place I worked at, they were upgrading all their computers at every desk. I asked the dude swapping then out what they do with the old machines. He told me they were literally being taken out back to a pile to be scrapped/recycled. I asked if I could take one, he said he wasn’t allowed to give them to me, but he then reiterated exactly where the pile of old computers was. I took the hint, snuck around the back of the building and grabbed one of the tiny little OptiPlex Minis. Used it as a media center for a little while.

Old computer equipment. It wasn’t being used for anything, and would have ended up being thrown out if I didn’t take it. Stuff was too old to be useful in a business environment now, but I built a small retro gaming rig running Windows 98 out of it.

While cleaning up the maintenance office I found a old Sony portable Bluetooth speaker in a plastic bag. It was obviously forgotten about from the ridiculous amount of dust on it and years of crap burried over it. I was surprised when it turned on and worked with really nice sound. A little roughed up and an old model but hey a nice speaker is a nice speaker. I quit months ago and still use that speaker every day.

In case you are wondering no I do not loose any sleep over ‘stealing’ it. As far as I’m concerned it was a small bonus.

Working for a tech company, working from home is allowed. Each employee receive a monitor, mouse, keyboard,… to be able to work from home. During Covid, my wife who is working for a social organisation, had to work from home, on a super small pc without any equipment provided. One day, I went to my office, took a screen and went back home with it. We still have it now. #wishRobinHood

I also took a bowl to put water for my cat.

Nice try, boss.

When I worked at KFC I stole an entire bag of country gravy mix. That shit lasted me years.

I also stole an entire box of frozen strawberries when I worked at Jamba Juice. Ended up giving a lot of them away.

And toilet paper when I worked at Blockbuster.

My first experience with stealing something without permission was a family member bringing home the keys to their workplace by mistake, putting the clothes whose pocket they were inside in the washer, and then me being hit with anxiety at school because the keys travelled into my uniform skirt pocket while in the washer which made me think I stole them because someone noticed. It ignited my lifetime career as master thief no just kidding my sister came to the rescue. But I would never be immune to the same habit of accidental key-taking when I got older.

So I no longer work there but I worked 10+ years as Ops manager in international removals. Once a year we would do a stocktake on all the inbound freight locations, pull aside anything that was out of place and then try and find an owner, most of the items were returned to their owners. But every year there would also be a few items without any identification, I would set these aside myself in the warehouse and then the following year if still unclaimed I would take them home or throw it in the bin.

The best items are 3 x 1.5L bottles of Penfolds Grange & 50g bar of gold.

But other than that there are so many items, a limited edition Beatles Sargent Pepper’s marble pressing with all the inserts intact. Few antique gold mirrors. Artwork. Media centre PC. Dining table and chairs. 2 Herman Miller office chairs, that’s just the stuff I remember while looking around my house now