Ok so I work in a secure workplace..

Kguku · Post by **Kguku** » June 3, 2003, 10:42 pm

.. and some son of a bitch stole my 5 year service pin off the letter I have on a wall in my office. I go on holidays for one week and some jackass feels they need to steal it? I feel like firing all my staff until someone fesses up to the crime!

Just needed to vent.

Acies · Post by **Acies** » June 3, 2003, 10:44 pm

KEEL TEHM ALL!

Jezdziec Znikad · Post by **Jezdziec Znikad** » June 3, 2003, 11:25 pm

My workplace is pretty secure except for the food always being stolen from the fridge. I swear, something is always missing from my lunch. I think I'm gonna put some extra-hot hot sauce in my sandwich.

Pilsburry · Post by **Pilsburry** » June 3, 2003, 11:58 pm

What would someone do with a 5 year service pin?

I hate people.

Boogahz · Post by **Boogahz** » June 4, 2003, 12:12 am

but did they leave your stapler?

I actually took my supervisor's stapler today and hid it on the other side of the building since he made a comment about not finding which printer his jobs were coming out of....this was just after I asked him if he thought that meant the managers just weren't telling him something

Toshira · Post by **Toshira** » June 4, 2003, 1:29 am

Wrong on so many levels. I grieve for you, sir.

Krurk · Post by **Krurk** » June 4, 2003, 3:15 am

My workplace is pretty secure except for the food always being stolen from the fridge. I swear, something is always missing from my lunch. I think I'm gonna put some extra-hot hot sauce in my sandwich.

Add something special to it one day like ex-lax and see who has to make a few extra trips to the shitter.

Fairweather Pure · Post by **Fairweather Pure** » June 4, 2003, 9:32 am

I'm a one man office with virtually no walk-in traffic. I have 3 computers/desks/printers, 6 phone lines, and lots of windows facing several acres of woods. The airport is within throwing distance, so I get to watch A-10s fly around all day. It's a pretty good job

But if something goes missing, I have no one else to blame it on

Ajran · Post by **Ajran** » June 4, 2003, 10:00 am

Jezdziec Znikad wrote:My workplace is pretty secure except for the food always being stolen from the fridge. I swear, something is always missing from my lunch. I think I'm gonna put some extra-hot hot sauce in my sandwich.

a little liquid laxative added to a planted food item generally reveals the culprit.. I had some jackass always stealing my bottle of diet coke out of the fridge..

didn't take long to figure out who it was after they made 5 trips to the bathroom in like 30 minutes..

Voronwë · Post by **Voronwë** » June 4, 2003, 11:26 am

i have a 5 year service pin you can have.

it isnt mine either, i found it in my desk drawer when i got this job.

Tenuvil · Post by **Tenuvil** » June 4, 2003, 1:13 pm

*sigh*

I can't believe the scumbags that take stuff off my desk. I typically go through half a dozen pads of Post-Its a week. My stapler has been snagged three times, my tape dispenser twice. Oh, let's not forget the LAN cable, that disappears weekly. Even the crappy pens I get at hotels disappear out of my pen holder daily.

Mind you this is a "professional services" firm, all people with masters degrees and CPAs or other professional certifications...

Krimson Klaw · Post by **Krimson Klaw** » June 4, 2003, 1:44 pm

Cleanup crew will get ya everytime. I have learned something in my life, no matter the type of job or work environment you are in, thieves will get you. The sooner you learn this the better off you'll be. The only person I know for a 100% fact that does not steal on this planet is myself. I have seen it, given the opportunity, even most honest people will snatch your stuff if they are guaranteed to not get caught. I hate thieves.

Neost · Post by **Neost** » June 4, 2003, 2:20 pm

We had a rash of laptop thefts a couple of years ago. Corporate Security put in pen cameras to catch the thief, but the culprit always seemed to steal laptops from an area where there were no cameras.

Then, someone bought a laptop off of ebay. Imagine their surprise when they got the laptop and it had a company logo as the wallpaper and all our standard installed applications, proprietary and public. The thief wasn't even bothering to wipe the drive.

They traced the sale back and had the guy arrested. It was the Corporate Security Director.

Kindo · Post by **Kindo** » June 4, 2003, 5:26 pm

I love pens, the more colors the better. A few weeks ago I had just purchased some really nice gel pens, they wrote very smooth, bright, pretty colors, my fetish could have been placed on the back burner for a month or two until they ran out of ink! But no...I took a couple days off and when I came back my pens were gone!!

Later that week I was dusting my pc and moved my keyboard. There, under my keyboard was a piece of my letterhead notepaper that a co-worker had written her name all over, in different bright, pretty colors...she miraculously "found" my pens a short time later.

Voronwë · Post by **Voronwë** » June 4, 2003, 6:25 pm

LOL neost.

somebody had been stealing some of the Mac equipment from my group a year ago and they nabbed them via ebay as well.

Ooga[foh] · Post by **Ooga[foh]** » June 4, 2003, 6:37 pm

Before I had my first job and I was still in HS I had some older friends who ended up stealing some shit from Intel when they worked there. I was there when like a million cops showed up with arrest warrants and search warrants etc. They questioned me and I denied knowing shit etc. Then they catch me changing my story because I was a young and stupid 16 year old. They threatened to prosocute me etc, then introduced me to a girl who worked with them at Intel and had already testified to the grand jury to prove they stole the shit etc. Anyhow, I went through 14 months of court appearences and in the end I really understood how fucking STUPID you are if you steal from your job. I have never once in my entire life stolen anything from a place of employment, whether I could get away with it or not. Save your money and buy your own shit. Cause rest assured, if they catch you, even for something stupid, they will fuck you in the ass as hard as they can to make an example out of you.

Pilsburry · Post by **Pilsburry** » June 4, 2003, 7:20 pm

OK I don't steal, but I understand people stealing, food, pens, post-its, computer equipment.....the stuff the steal is used/consumed in one fashion or another.

BUT WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU DO WITH SOMEONE ELSE'S 5-YEAR SERVICE PIN?

I mean there is a reason it was on the wall of his cubicle, because they have no useful function....so why take it?

That's like stealing a photo of someones grandma....why? What's the point in that?

Cotto · Post by **Cotto** » June 4, 2003, 7:50 pm

Because you can.

Simple fact, some people take/break/hurt/burn stuff simply because, they can.

Pilsburry · Post by **Pilsburry** » June 4, 2003, 9:12 pm

And that's why I said earlier..."I hate people"