Stealing from Work

[scottish]

After hearing of @welshcakes; latest drama I figured I'd make this thread

Have you ever stole from work?

I'd personally never, it just seems stupid and asking for trouble as well as disrespectful to your employers.



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[buttons]

at the hotel i used to work at, we would give out bowls of sweets to the kids at functions but would keep some behind the bar to eat through the night. so technically stealing but we were often doing 12 hr shifts with no break so idc. would also steal sweets for desserts in the kitchen too lol. one time i stole an ice cream cone when no one was watching and the phone rang!!! totally forgot they had cameras all over lol. it was someone looking for someone else tho thankfully!

other than that, ive stolen a million pens from work. wouldn't risk stealing anything major and wouldn't want to anyway.

[Empired]

No I never have. I used to look at things I wanted at work all the time and think "oh I could just take that and no one would ever know!!!" but I know I would always be too scared to. I went home with some extra 5 pences in my pocket once (by accident because I'd been changing round money in the till and a customer had distracted me) and was so scared I went back in when the shop opened on Monday and sneakily put them back without telling anyone and no one ever said anything so I guess nobody noticed.

[Martin]

Nope! Other than the odd pen here and there!

I was a cash office supervisor for 6 years and trusted with keys for safes and banking 20 grand most days etc, so I would never have broken that trust!


I did however 'steal' items off shop floor for the bakery though such as sugar when our supplies had run out! :P

[Cerys]

NOPE as far as i know i haven't xo

im too well behaved for that


plus i dont have a job anymore so the opportunity has gone </3

[lawrawrrr]

you just heard about that what


I'm NOT GOING TO ADMIT TO ANYTHING ON HERE NICE TRY FGS


I don't think I would ever steal money from work though if I worked in retail. Few pens every now and again and once I took a pad of stickie notes but I felt so guilty when my colleague couldn't find any the next day I brought them back in at lunchtime and gave them to him ugh I'm so nice and good help

[xxMATTGxx]

Nope, not something I would do to be honest.

[Alkaz]

Never stolen anything, apart from food/drink and the odd 20p or something I pick up off the floor but I don't class that as stealing £20 out of the till.

[abc]

What was welshcake drama?
No, I own my company so no. Although I take free pens from where ever I can so I never have to pay for pens. We have fired several people for stealing with criminal prosecution.

[Absently]

no really, idk if taking the box cutter with me when i left work counts???

[Samantha]

No I would never steal from the place I work, I have too much respect for them as after all they gave me a job and pay me my wages! I've took an odd pen here and there when I've forgot about them I guess, but the shop pays them out so it's not losing or gaining any money from it.

[FlyingJesus]

Oh I thought I'd replied to this, appaz I voted then left :P BACK WHEN I HAD A JOB so like 2008 I did evening work when there was only one floor of workers in and I'd take breaks and just wander around the building to get away from the few people I did have to see, and one time I went into one of the upstairs offices and robbed a mouse because my one at home had broken and I felt well rebellious. It lasted me for like 6 years best thing I've ever taken obv *+*+*+

but 4real would you really see anything under £50 as minor that seems a very high margin

[Plebings]

never professionally but when i was a kid and helped out with tuck shop or charity cake stalls i used to take more money out when getting people's change so i could buy myself some sweets :(

[Empired]

never professionally but when i was a kid and helped out with tuck shop or charity cake stalls i used to take more money out when getting people's change so i could buy myself some sweets :(
THIEF

I wonder how many of us (some have said already obv) who wouldn't steal are that way because they feel loyal to the company/don't want to do something that's clearly immoral and how many of us wouldn't steal because we're too scared of getting caught. I'm both but more the second one tbh :(

[Joe]

I voted no but maybe I technically did steal - our uniform at work was to be handed back in when we quit but I never did so I have a very fetching Nottingham Forest jacket that I should've given back.

[Alysha]

As my disciplinary hearing outcome states, I was not complicit in the theft of vouchers for personal gain, I was just naive to Lauren taking them ;) tbh I did take a voucher and give it to lawrawrrr; but this was before they actually had a system where you could credit the vouchers back to the customer, so there was a drawer full of them to give to irate customers.

Ive never taken any money from a till or anything like that. I did take a box of staples off shop floor to use in store, but that's about it.

[Hannah]

I have dreamt about it on many occasions, for example - if we actually held enough money in store would it be easy to just run away to another country?

But of course it will never happen in this crappy job, and I don't think I would ever have the guts either. xD

Not stolen anything to date other than printer ink and electricity to print CVs off, ha.

[Inseriousity.]

no really, idk if taking the box cutter with me when i left work counts???

well it wasn't yours so yes it does count! ;)

i stole an envelope lol. not cos envelopes are soooo expensive, I was just too lazy to go to post office.

[The Don]

Let's go back, back to the Gap
Look at my check, wasn't no scratch
So if I stole, wasn't my fault
Yeah I stole, never got caught

[Absently]

well it wasn't yours so yes it does count! ;)

i stole an envelope lol. not cos envelopes are soooo expensive, I was just too lazy to go to post office.
But it was mine because I was part of the late night team!!

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well it wasn't yours so yes it does count! ;)

i stole an envelope lol. not cos envelopes are soooo expensive, I was just too lazy to go to post office.
But it was mine because I was part of the late night team!!

[Kyle]

pens, paper, mousemat, mouse. my brother once took a computer chair from work

[-:Undertaker:-]

nope never.

don't think i've ever stolen anything

[Prosiary]

pens, paper, mousemat, mouse. my brother once took a computer chair from work

a computer chair

how the fuck did he get away with that

[Metric1]

I've been buying cigarettes with the company fleet fuel card for years.

[OldLoveSong]

NO i have not stolen and would get so much anxiety if i did cuz id think sum1 was out to get me

[rnix]

I stole a can of hairspray but my boss was a **** so :)

[N-Dubz]

when i worked in food, yes because wtf im doing like 12 hour shifts with a 20 minute break so im taking your food at the end of the day. but fashion??? never... and now i'm a child nurse so unless i'm stealing kids.. no.

[Yawn]

blistex lip balm
bottles of water

ill help myself on shift and say ill pay on break and then forget

guess ive taken money off coupons and stuff that customers leave behind and then use them myself

[welshcake]

blistex lip balm
guess ive taken money off coupons and stuff that customers leave behind and then use them myself

That's what got me fired

[j0rd]

not really
used to ring triple drinks in as bottled water for mates so it cost them like a quid

would give away bottled water if anyone asked really, it was just easier than going and pouring a glass of water

[Yawn]

That's what got me fired

l m f a o

did u make it to experience the new self checkouts babe?

[Alkaz]

Last Christmas I was in Asda doing some shopping and this woman I always say hello to when I'm in there was on the self checkouts and I was having a lot of trouble with this one machine. She came over and apparently it was my own bags that were causing the issue so she put 2 crates of fosters that I was buying on the bagging area and then put my bags on there and weighed the ''bags'' and approved it. As she walked away she said merry Christmas and winked at me. She gave me 2 free crates of fosters for Christmas just by weighing them as bags. I wonder if she has done that to many other people or if she ever got in trouble for it.

[welshcake]

l m f a o

did u make it to experience the new self checkouts babe?
Made the mistake of using a match and more with the vouchers

And yeah, for a bit I was on those machines. Had them 6th October I was fired late November.
They were very good but very different
Customers preferred them but still called them shite

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Last Christmas I was in Asda doing some shopping and this woman I always say hello to when I'm in there was on the self checkouts and I was having a lot of trouble with this one machine. She came over and apparently it was my own bags that were causing the issue so she put 2 crates of fosters that I was buying on the bagging area and then put my bags on there and weighed the ''bags'' and approved it. As she walked away she said merry Christmas and winked at me. She gave me 2 free crates of fosters for Christmas just by weighing them as bags. I wonder if she has done that to many other people or if she ever got in trouble for it.
I gave a few people free shit
Nothing that expensive though!
Prob added up to a bit though

[Cerys]

I gave a few people free shit
Nothing that expensive though!
Prob added up to a bit though

Oh actually now that you and the other person mentioned it, I have probably *technically* stolen stuff via that. Like unintentionally. When I scanned stuff through I'd be doing it so quick that if it didn't actually scan the person would already have it in their bag before I realised. It's just embarrassing to ask for it back lol so i ignored it !

Usually it was only cheap stuff like cheese but there was one time where it was a huge bottle of some sort of spirit and i was like oh why didnt it come up with the age verification screen? lol i didnt scan it did i rip -continues work anyway

[welshcake]

Oh actually now that you and the other person mentioned it, I have probably *technically* stolen stuff via that. Like unintentionally. When I scanned stuff through I'd be doing it so quick that if it didn't actually scan the person would already have it in their bag before I realised. It's just embarrassing to ask for it back lol so i ignored it !

Usually it was only cheap stuff like cheese but there was one time where it was a huge bottle of some sort of spirit and i was like oh why didnt it come up with the age verification screen? lol i didnt scan it did i rip -continues work anyway
oh my god that is 100% me!!!!!
I DID THAT ALL THE TIME

And when I didn't know or couldn't find a fruit or veg quick i would pretend to weigh it and push it down

[Cerys]

oh my god that is 100% me!!!!!
I DID THAT ALL THE TIME

And when I didn't know or couldn't find a fruit or veg quick i would pretend to weigh it and push it down


Omg yess that's happened to me loads hahaha (is this a cucumber or courgette or aubergine..what even is an aubergine oh my god the stress)
or when you don't know the specific type of apple so you choose a random one..xD I had a customer shout at me for that, I didn't know what type of apple she had so I asked her and she was like '-shrug the posh ones' so I was like lol k ill put it through as the cheapest and she kicked off saying it's not right cos it's not the right price blah blah even tho I saved her like 25p gosh I was like a SAINT.

If we ran a supermarket we'd get bankrupt so quick x x

[Yawn]

Made the mistake of using a match and more with the vouchers

And yeah, for a bit I was on those machines. Had them 6th October I was fired late November.
They were very good but very different
Customers preferred them but still called them shite

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I gave a few people free shit
Nothing that expensive though!
Prob added up to a bit though

lol me and my friends always hypothetically said that we wouldnt use our match & more card if we were using vouchers that werent our own. (when i took vouchers it was prior to the match & more card)

and omg i always give customers free stuff cos it didnt scan or i cba to wait around
"just take it i fucking hate this place!!!111"

[Kellie]

No it isn't worth my job lol I'd wanna be trust worthy

[Aoi]

Hell no. It's wrong and I would probably be too scared to if it ever came down to it.

[Mikey]

A pen..

I've gave customers stuff for free. Customer wanted a slice of pizza and the rest of the pizza was going to be binned (due to shitty company policy) so gave her the rest of it and a customer didn't like how empty the cup was when the coffee machine poured it so I poured him another and gave him one for free.

[Empired]

A pen..

I've gave customers stuff for free. Customer wanted a slice of pizza and the rest of the pizza was going to be binned (due to shitty company policy) so gave her the rest of it and a customer didn't like how empty the cup was when the coffee machine poured it so I poured him another and gave him one for free.
But surely something like that means that customers are more likely to want to come back? If customers are really happy with the service somewhere they'll remember and make an effort to return so surely you're doing the company a favour (allbeit small) in the long run.

[Mikey]

But surely something like that means that customers are more likely to want to come back? If customers are really happy with the service somewhere they'll remember and make an effort to return so surely you're doing the company a favour (allbeit small) in the long run.

Exactly but the company wouldn't have agreed. I had a lot of customers who personally thanked me for going the extra mile. My last week there was the best, was as generous as I wanted haha. Glad I don't work there anymore (cough... Morrisons)

[Empired]

Exactly but the company wouldn't have agreed. I had a lot of customers who personally thanked me for going the extra mile. My last week there was the best, was as generous as I wanted haha. Glad I don't work there anymore (cough... Morrisons)
omg welshcake; for Morrisons
but yeah obviously the company wouldn't agree - no one ever gets rich by giving stuff away BUT I still think fantastic customer service is the best way to keep the customers coming in

same with banks like I don't understand why they have all these great deals for new customers and leave older customers in the dark? surely it's more beneficial to keep the customers you've got

[Matt]

Well I unintentionally left work with my bosses car keys in my pocket because I was using them on my break and forgot to give them back.

But I've never stolen anything, I'm too much of an angel.

[despect]

The most I've taken from work is a pen even that was an accident where you just put it in your pocket and forget its in there till you get home. I always return it when I'm next in work though.

[Sho]

i stole a chicken nugget from my old job years ago?? but it would have gone to the bin anyway and after taking one they actually offered the staff them so does that even count idk

[nat965]

Only things that I'd put in my pocket to do a job, or by honest mistake.