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"Have you ever had to steal anything from work/school just to get by?"
This secret was anonymously submitted on my site:
Female from Pennsylvania:
"Hey there 'good job' (according to my parents). Sure you are the best job that I've ever had, but you're hostile and ignorant and guess what!? You don't pay enough, otherwise, I wouldn't have to steal your toilet paper to get by!"
I decided to put up a poll.
"Have you ever had to steal anything from work/school just to get by?"
These are the results so far:
57.1% Yes, toilet paper, paper towels, computer paper, pens, etc
23.4% I don't NEED it to get by, but I take stuff anyways! Free TP, Yippee!
19.5% No, I make enough to buy my own ammenities, thank you very much!
Though I've never done it, honestly, I've thought about snaggin some TP or a box of kleenex a time or two. When i've had a hard day at work, I just feel like my job owes me something more.
What's everyone's opinion of this? Is it wrong? Is it ok?
Female from Pennsylvania:
"Hey there 'good job' (according to my parents). Sure you are the best job that I've ever had, but you're hostile and ignorant and guess what!? You don't pay enough, otherwise, I wouldn't have to steal your toilet paper to get by!"
I decided to put up a poll.
"Have you ever had to steal anything from work/school just to get by?"
These are the results so far:
57.1% Yes, toilet paper, paper towels, computer paper, pens, etc
23.4% I don't NEED it to get by, but I take stuff anyways! Free TP, Yippee!
19.5% No, I make enough to buy my own ammenities, thank you very much!
Though I've never done it, honestly, I've thought about snaggin some TP or a box of kleenex a time or two. When i've had a hard day at work, I just feel like my job owes me something more.
What's everyone's opinion of this? Is it wrong? Is it ok?
Tags: confessions, job, money, paper, school, secrets, steal, toilet, work
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Permalink Reply by Angie on -
I've never stolen anything from work (or anywhere.) And I've had plenty of opportunity, as my wife and I worked in a store pretty much all by ourselves for quite a while and we actually caught our co-worker stealing. We turned her in.
Unless you have ZERO money, like nothing, zip zero and you/your family/pet is *dying* I don't think stealing is acceptable. And even than, there are PLENTY of other ways to get money. And if someone was in a food or death situation, stealing a loaf of bread or a can of soup is one thing - stealing shoes, a meal, a CD, etc. is BS.
Just my two cents!
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Permalink Reply by Barbara on -
I never have. I had a friend that used to steal coasters and toilet paper from the Red Lobster she worked at. I also had a friend that used to ring up only maybe a third of the groceries that his friends bought at the grocery store he worked at.
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Permalink Reply by RAY J on -
I had a friend who did that at Marshall's (would only ring up a few items and let her friends leave with $100 worth of stuff free) when we were back in high school. She got caught and arrested and it's on her record - she couldn't work retail again for like 6 years because of it and this was kind of the beginning of her downward spiral post-high school (she started getting back on track when she found out she was pregnant).
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Permalink Reply by happinessisme on -
People still from their jobs all the time, especially in retail. That's where most of the stealing happens, behind the scenes. Wonder how many politicians are stealing on the job? No, I've never stolen but with the b.s. wages folk get paid, I don't blame most who do.
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Permalink Reply by jaminicole on -
Toilet paper. Push pins. I accidentally stole a belt once. I would find gift cards with a few bucks on them and use them.
Big Department Stores are evil anyway.
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Permalink Reply by El Diablo Blanco on -
Yes. But more for the joy of stealing than "trying to get by." Anybody who thinks they can't afford toilet paper, yet has enough money to maintain the internet service required to write confessions about stealing toilet paper "just to get by", is lying to themselves.
And if anyone hates themselves enough to believe their time is only worth $10-$20 or even $30 per hour, so be it. But otherwise, yes, any job you've ever had probably owes you something.
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Permalink Reply by Shayna on -
I'm guessing that part of the high 'yes' votes came from the fact that many many office workers at some point or another accidentally take home pens in their pockets, briefcases, etc... not intentionally, but nevertheless they come home, end up in the laundry or on the counter and are of such low value that we never remember to bring them back (assuming we even recognize that they came from the office to begin with)
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Permalink Reply by RAY J on
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Nothing major that I can think of aside from using paperclips for non-work related stuff or printing off personal stuff at work since our printer at home hasn't had ink in forever... but I don't feel bad about it as my bosses print off stuff for themselves all the time too.
At the school newspaper in college I accidently stole a CD out of the weekend editor's desk - it was one we were sent to do a review on and they let us borrow CDs from the drawer all the time. I borrowed one but forgot to give it back and it got all scratched up. I bought a new copy to replace it but never remembered to bring it back in - oops!
At the movie theater we found out one of our employees was stealing Reese Pieces from the back closet where we kept the concession inventory. We noticed the numbers were off and started doing nightly inventories for a few weeks straight. He quit during this time and we found out after he left that when he closed up concession at night, while were in the office counting money he'd sneak back, take a bunch of them, hide them in the boxes that were being thrown out with the trash and then when he'd take out the trash he'd toss em in his car.
We also caught another employee committing fraud with his mom's credit card - he'd run it through for the price of a movie and then take the cash out of the drawer so he'd still be even. The manager on duty caught him when he went to the restroom, heard the register open several times even though the lobby was dead and it was between sets so no one was coming in at the time. He looked it over on the camera and noticed something was up and then when he was counting the credit cards up, noticed a bunch with the kid's mom's name on em. He called up the mother, and I believe the cops got called too as it was fraud. Yeah I think he spent the night in jail and was promptly fired too.
Both the kids were senior employees too... dunno if they felt entitled or what, but they were both well-liked by us and we hated seeing them go, but you just can't let that stuff slide...
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