Taking "work" home

[bobhope]

I frequently seem to end up leaving a couple of pens in my pocket and taking them home and of course emptying them out before washing.

This made me think, where is the line before you get into the realms of theft?

A few sheets of paper: Ok, a whole 500 sheet ream: pilfering.


What's the most outrageous thing you know of that someone has taken home?

[Zippy]

I frequently seem to end up leaving a couple of pens in my pocket and taking them home and of course emptying them out before washing.

This made me think, where is the line before you get into the realms of theft?

A few sheets of paper: Ok, a whole 500 sheet ream: pilfering.


What's the most outrageous thing you know of that someone has taken home?

Top spec Sony Vaio laptop.

No, it wasn't me

[RichardCranium]

What's the most outrageous thing you know of that someone has taken home?

An ICL Series 39 mainframe. Brand new, unused.

EDIT: Sorry, I was wrong. He pinched it from ICL and put it on his company's site; he didn't take it home.

[Cliphead]

HP Laserjet 1400n

[nomadd]

I frequently seem to end up leaving a couple of pens in my pocket and taking them home and of course emptying them out before washing.

This made me think, where is the line before you get into the realms of theft?

A few sheets of paper: Ok, a whole 500 sheet ream: pilfering.


What's the most outrageous thing you know of that someone has taken home?

Worked for Channel4 Television many years ago. Guy there was "visited" at home by the police as a lot of "kit" was going missing. They found 4 top-end professional video recorders - probably worth £25k a pop in today's money - in his garage. Not a bad way to supplement a permie salary, I guess.

Nomadd

[Menelaus]

I know of someone who (ahem) liberated a number of bits of Iraqi bakshee from Kuwait when we came back from GRANBY in 1991.

[Sysman]

According to a Dilbert book I read about 10 years ago, you hadn't taken enough floppies home until you had re-roofed your house.

I did have my eye on that 480 GB disk array I configured for Y2K testing, but sadly clientco weren't letting it go. I can't say I'd have liked the leccy bills of course.

[PRC1964]

Years ago (1980's) in a smallish company. The girl in charge of accounts noticed a few cheques had been taken out from the back of the cheque book.

The MD called a staff meeting and said that if the person returned the money within a week nothing more would be done.

9 days later plod marched in and arrested the head of the research dept who had apparantly spent the lot on hookers.

I never found out how much was taken, but he got locked up for long enough to find out if he liked "Gladiator movies".

[Zippy]

Years ago (1980's) in a smallish company. The girl in charge of accounts noticed a few cheques had been taken out from the back of the cheque book.

The MD called a staff meeting and said that if the person returned the money within a week nothing more would be done.

9 days later plod marched in and arrested the head of the research dept who had apparantly spent the lot on hookers.

I never found out how much was taken, but he got locked up for long enough to find out if he liked "Gladiator movies".

That's a hell of a lot of hookers.

Or a few really, really good ones ...

[Sysman]

One I've just remembered from permie days:

The guy who was still running around in his company car a year after he'd left. Probably still had his petrol card too.