Stuff acquired from work
Discussion
Now guys, I’m sure as good, honest PH’ers, we’d never dream of condoning theft. But I’m sure, like me, we’re guilty of having the odd company article on our person as we leave to go home !! However, in the past, I’ve heard/known of some very ingenious methods of acquiring your employers bits and pieces. What were they? I once heard that a whole car was smuggled out of the FoMoCo Dagenham production building bit by bit. The lateral thinking option. Guy in the carpenters shop makes a lovely wooden wheel barrow in his dinners hours. It sits by his bench for a few weeks, until the Eureka moment. He goes down to the company disposals, buys a few bits for peanuts, loads it onto his wheel barrow, walks out the gate, giving the security guard the ticket for his disposals bits!!! Guy has a nice side line supply local electricians with cable. How? It so happens, his workbench is on a wall that is the boundary of the work site. It has a hole thought it under his bench. Cable drum is placed there, with the end poking through the hole. The transfers takes place late in the evening. The clever one. A guy whose house backs onto a factory. Realises that very hot steam pipes run along the factory wall across the bottom of his garden. Hooks a heat exchanger around the pipes, and gets free house heating !! And don’t ever read a list of stuff lost by the MOD !!!
robinessex said:
Now guys, I’m sure as good, honest PH’ers, we’d never dream of condoning theft. But I’m sure, like me, we’re guilty of having the odd company article on our person as we leave to go home !! However, in the past, I’ve heard/known of some very ingenious methods of acquiring your employers bits and pieces. What were they? I once heard that a whole car was smuggled out of the FoMoCo Dagenham production building bit by bit. The lateral thinking option. Guy in the carpenters shop makes a lovely wooden wheel barrow in his dinners hours. It sits by his bench for a few weeks, until the Eureka moment. He goes down to the company disposals, buys a few bits for peanuts, loads it onto his wheel barrow, walks out the gate, giving the security guard the ticket for his disposals bits!!! Guy has a nice side line supply local electricians with cable. How? It so happens, his workbench is on a wall that is the boundary of the work site. It has a hole thought it under his bench. Cable drum is placed there, with the end poking through the hole. The transfers takes place late in the evening. The clever one. A guy whose house backs onto a factory. Realises that very hot steam pipes run along the factory wall across the bottom of his garden. Hooks a heat exchanger around the pipes, and gets free house heating !! And don’t ever read a list of stuff lost by the MOD !!!
k all!I borrowed some step ladders and cable jacks from a company I worked for with every intention of returning them when I had finished using them, three days later they went bust and I was made redundant, so I never returned them, still, t'was a bit of a stinker losing my job!
Edited by Axionknight on Sunday 29th November 13:57
Two deputies from the pit, knock on Bert's front door as they suspect he's been stealing from work.
It's answered by his wife Ethel.......
" Hello love says one, we need to have a word with Bert, is he in ?"
"Come in" she says, "Bert's down the garden in his shed, I'll give him a shout"
The deputies look at each other knowingly and one says
" Shall we just take a walk down there instead"
" No need for that " pipes up Ethel
" Just ring the bell and he'll send the man rider up for you"
It's answered by his wife Ethel.......
" Hello love says one, we need to have a word with Bert, is he in ?"
"Come in" she says, "Bert's down the garden in his shed, I'll give him a shout"
The deputies look at each other knowingly and one says
" Shall we just take a walk down there instead"
" No need for that " pipes up Ethel
" Just ring the bell and he'll send the man rider up for you"
I have loads of stuff. All legit.
Most of the mugs in my cupboards have a company logo on them. Years ago some where ordered and there was a mistake on them. The wrong slogan. They were brand new and going to be binned. The remainder are merchandise left over when the firm rebranded.
I have some quire expensive recording gear which I took with permission when I left one business. I've my old office chair at home too. It replaced a previous work acquired office chair.
The carpet tile flooring in my home office was rescued after carefully being put in a skip. It was when a suite of management offices for managers who didn't exist was reconfigured. The offices were used for maybe a week in 5 years.
All the above with permission.
Stolen items? I've a battery charger I never gave back because I forgot and a cuddly polar bear which belonged to a much liked work mate who left. When the firm was closing, I saw him (the bear not the work mate) out in the rain chucked onto a skip of broken office furnishings. I took pity so he (the bear not the work mate) now lives on top of a wardrobe in a spare bedroom.
I have a friend who has several 4.5 inch she'll cases, a tail rotor srom a Sea King and a windscreen wiper from a Lynx hell copter. All from work. The Royal Navy.
Most of the mugs in my cupboards have a company logo on them. Years ago some where ordered and there was a mistake on them. The wrong slogan. They were brand new and going to be binned. The remainder are merchandise left over when the firm rebranded.
I have some quire expensive recording gear which I took with permission when I left one business. I've my old office chair at home too. It replaced a previous work acquired office chair.
The carpet tile flooring in my home office was rescued after carefully being put in a skip. It was when a suite of management offices for managers who didn't exist was reconfigured. The offices were used for maybe a week in 5 years.
All the above with permission.
Stolen items? I've a battery charger I never gave back because I forgot and a cuddly polar bear which belonged to a much liked work mate who left. When the firm was closing, I saw him (the bear not the work mate) out in the rain chucked onto a skip of broken office furnishings. I took pity so he (the bear not the work mate) now lives on top of a wardrobe in a spare bedroom.
I have a friend who has several 4.5 inch she'll cases, a tail rotor srom a Sea King and a windscreen wiper from a Lynx hell copter. All from work. The Royal Navy.
I did hear a tale about a chap from the Royal Mint who used to load his pockets with coins and then throw them over the fence on his lunch hour.
Later on that evening, he'd walk his dog around the perimeter fence and pick them up.
Now that I've typed this out, it seems a lot more unlikely.
Later on that evening, he'd walk his dog around the perimeter fence and pick them up.
Now that I've typed this out, it seems a lot more unlikely.
Edited by Issi on Sunday 29th November 22:55
The 1980s buildings I worked in for 17 years were demolished over the last few weeks, including an extension which I'd had to fight to get built. I picked up from the rubble a piece, approx 30 x 20 x 15mm of the painted plaster from my now-vanished office as a momento. I'll put it on my desk in the state-of-art new building and look at it whenever an annoying problem arises - to remind me of the trivial and transient nature of battles and empires, whether petty, like at work, or more significant - after all, the Roman empire's temple complex is now some 10 feet beneath our town centre!
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