Stuff acquired from work

Stuff acquired from work

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SidJames

1,399 posts

232 months

Monday 30th November 2015
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Every 3 years for the last 21 years the business gives me a new laptop and phone. Never been asked to return any of the old stuff.


DervVW

2,223 posts

138 months

Monday 30th November 2015
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SidJames said:
Every 3 years for the last 21 years the business gives me a new laptop and phone. Never been asked to return any of the old stuff.
No 'green' recycle/resuse cycle. That seems unusual. Ive not had them myself, but I have worked in places where they are given out.

hairyben

8,516 posts

182 months

Monday 30th November 2015
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DervVW said:
droopsnoot said:
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Not sure if either are actually true. Many tales of people around the Longbridge area having houses entirely painted in BL colours, as well.
Having grown up near longbridge, I too heard that rumour and I also saw plenty of 'austin brown' and 'yellow' in and around houses. I suspect that it might be more than a rumour!!
Holly green and lime green are the two main colours for lamp posts in the area I grew up and did my electrical apprenticeship.

And by complete coincidence, the colours of choice for the sheds, soffits, window frames etc ect etc of many electric board employee's...

SidJames

1,399 posts

232 months

Monday 30th November 2015
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DervVW said:
SidJames said:
Every 3 years for the last 21 years the business gives me a new laptop and phone. Never been asked to return any of the old stuff.
No 'green' recycle/resuse cycle. That seems unusual. Ive not had them myself, but I have worked in places where they are given out.
For print cartridges yes, laptops no. beer

Kids used old Dells and HP's through Uni, but declined the use of my Nokia 3310.


johnwilliams77

8,308 posts

102 months

Monday 30th November 2015
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ipad.

Downward

3,492 posts

102 months

Monday 30th November 2015
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Not technically stealing but the amount of research funding or charity funding used to buy laptops specifically Apple ones is ridiculous. Bear in mind these were not allowed on the networks and once these departments had finished what they needed the laptops were never returned and ended up with the staff member.


DervVW

2,223 posts

138 months

Monday 30th November 2015
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SidJames said:
DervVW said:
SidJames said:
Every 3 years for the last 21 years the business gives me a new laptop and phone. Never been asked to return any of the old stuff.
No 'green' recycle/resuse cycle. That seems unusual. Ive not had them myself, but I have worked in places where they are given out.
For print cartridges yes, laptops no. beer

Kids used old Dells and HP's through Uni, but declined the use of my Nokia 3310.
Sounds like a win for you... and who could refuse an unbreakable 3310?!!

littlebasher

3,767 posts

170 months

Monday 30th November 2015
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A long time ago, there was a bloke I knew who was the evening manager at a branch of a burger chain.

He had a massive gambling addiction and was using the days takings as stake money up the casino after work. He then returned the money to the safe on his way home.

Did this for a while until the inevitable happened and he lost all their money. He also lost his freedom iirc.


A few years ago, I watched someone who I worked with put a work PC inside a cardboard box and then wrap it in 'happy birthday' paper. At home time he simply walked it out of the building.
This was not the first birthday present he'd given himself either!

magooagain

9,911 posts

169 months

Monday 30th November 2015
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Guy I know told me that every house he works in he borrows a dishwasher tablet.
When I asked why he asked if I knew how much they were?

CR6ZZ

1,313 posts

144 months

Monday 30th November 2015
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I was able to buy my first house very cheaply because the chap who owned it had completely renovated courtesy of the DIY store he worked at. He got found out and had to sell in a hurry to cover the fine and repay the firm.

Jimmy Recard

17,540 posts

178 months

Monday 30th November 2015
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littlebasher said:
A long time ago, there was a bloke I knew who was the evening manager at a branch of a burger chain.

He had a massive gambling addiction and was using the days takings as stake money up the casino after work. He then returned the money to the safe on his way home.

Did this for a while until the inevitable happened and he lost all their money. He also lost his freedom iirc.


A few years ago, I watched someone who I worked with put a work PC inside a cardboard box and then wrap it in 'happy birthday' paper. At home time he simply walked it out of the building.
This was not the first birthday present he'd given himself either!
A friend of mine is an auditor who was involved in uncovering a CFO who had been embezzling to fund his online bingo habit. It was a couple of years ago, but as I remember the money spent on Foxy Bingo was something like £1.25 million

dudleybloke

19,718 posts

185 months

Monday 30th November 2015
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There was someone working in the offices of a building firm that through skillful over ordering and manipulation of work orders got himself a bungalow built for free.

AstonZagato

12,652 posts

209 months

Monday 30th November 2015
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There was a story about a local (IIRC) zoo that circulated a while back.

There was a council car park next door to the zoo. A little man in a council hi-viz jacket collected the money from each car. He was very diligent and hard working. He was always there, rain snow or shine.

After twenty years, he announced he was retiring and bade everyone a fond farewell.

The following Monday, no one turned up to replace him. The zoo called the council to ask what was happening. The council were confused. They didn't have an employee there. They didn't have any car park there. In fact, according to their records, the car park was the zoo's responsibility.

The little old man had made millions. They never found him.

S6PNJ

5,158 posts

280 months

Monday 30th November 2015
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AstonZagato said:
There was a story about a local (IIRC) zoo that circulated a while back.

There was a council car park next door to the zoo. A little man in a council hi-viz jacket collected the money from each car. He was very diligent and hard working. He was always there, rain snow or shine.

After twenty years, he announced he was retiring and bade everyone a fond farewell.

The following Monday, no one turned up to replace him. The zoo called the council to ask what was happening. The council were confused. They didn't have an employee there. They didn't have any car park there. In fact, according to their records, the car park was the zoo's responsibility.

The little old man had made millions. They never found him.
nonoSnopes

anonymous-user

53 months

Monday 30th November 2015
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I have to say a lot of what is posted up here sounds a lot like heard from a mate of mate story.

I can say my Dad back in the 1980's stole £25k as a chartered accountant from a Company. He had a massive gambling problem but did have a nice Range rover and speedboat for a time after. (very inconspicuous).

Got found out send to Gaol for a Year paid it back thou.

Best thing was came out and got a job at the Royal Mint.. smile not strictly legal at the time, but at least time passing can see the funny side now.

Jimmy Recard

17,540 posts

178 months

Monday 30th November 2015
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The Spruce goose said:
I have to say a lot of what is posted up here sounds a lot like heard from a mate of mate story.
This backs up mine as it's the exact case I'm talking about:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/bingo-addict-...

But rather than the £1.25 million I thought it was from memory, it was 300 grand more than that.

Tango13

8,398 posts

175 months

Monday 30th November 2015
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PositronicRay said:
Alfa numeric said:
Morningside said:
Not sure about stolen but someone I know had lots and lots of greenshield stamp books. He used to work at a garage and either never gave them out or was given them. He had goodness knows how many tools from them books.
An old work colleague once told me about a family member who was fired from Sainsburys for using his nectar card every time a customer didn't use theirs. He racked up thousands of points in a matter of weeks and was surprised when they caught him!
PDI centre, when fuelling cars one of the drivers used his loyalty card all day long. Sometimes up to 20 times a day.
I worked at one place where we used to ship huge amounts of stuff via DHL. We were advised by the DHL sales rep that we could earn nectar points on shipments...

We had about £100 each to spend the following Christmas smile

AstonZagato

12,652 posts

209 months

Monday 30th November 2015
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S6PNJ said:
AstonZagato said:
There was a story about a local (IIRC) zoo that circulated a while back.

There was a council car park next door to the zoo. A little man in a council hi-viz jacket collected the money from each car. He was very diligent and hard working. He was always there, rain snow or shine.

After twenty years, he announced he was retiring and bade everyone a fond farewell.

The following Monday, no one turned up to replace him. The zoo called the council to ask what was happening. The council were confused. They didn't have an employee there. They didn't have any car park there. In fact, according to their records, the car park was the zoo's responsibility.

The little old man had made millions. They never found him.
nonoSnopes
I suspected it was not true. Nice story though.

grumpy52

5,565 posts

165 months

Monday 30th November 2015
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In the late 80's I worked part time for a car hire company collecting and delivering cars .
At 6 months or 6000 miles the cars would come off the fleet and be taken to a site where they were sold on .
It's very strange that most of the cars arrived at the site without radios , spare wheels and very little petrol .
3 years of working for them for crap wages was made up for by not buying petrol or tyres in all that time and the big pocket on wax jackets is perfect for a car radio .
When dear old dad retired from the RAF the mountain of kit he had acquired over the years was amazing the best were the hand made chelsea style boots only issued to the music service for ceremonial duties , 4 pairs brand new and unworn also loads of service issue shoes all new .He was entitled to new kit on a regular basis which he claimed but he never wore footwear out .
Also on retirement he was allowed to purchase his musical instrument that he had used during his service , a euphonium only 9 months old worth about £4k . When he went to complete the paperwork for the instrument he was told that this was not possible as the instrument had been destroyed during the Iraq war . Said instrument was in fact sat in the boot of the old mans car.
He was told by the instruments controller that it was impossible to buy something that officially no longer exists .The old fella and his euphonium never went to Iraq .

jurbie

2,339 posts

200 months

Monday 30th November 2015
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About 20 years ago there was a chap who worked on the railways in Crewe who also happened to be a bit of a train nut and was involved with some sort of rail heritage group. His job was fairly high up and part of it involved managing the sidings at Crewe which are absolutely huge and filled to the brim with all manner of redundant engines and locomotives most of which eventually get sold for scrap.

Not wishing to see all these lovely old trains go to the scrapyard and using his position in Railtrack he came up with various schemes to make the loco's disappear whilst the inventory at his heritage place started to increase. He was eventually caught and pretty much lost everything including both jobs at Railtrack and the heritage place as well as doing a bit of time. What was interesting was he didn't profit at all, he just wanted to save some old loco's. At the heritage place he was known as the fat controller and was very popular as obviously they were getting free trains which he was 'donating' via his job. They had no idea he was actually nicking them.

I met him when he came to work at the same place as me whilst he was waiting to go to trial. He came via an agency and no one knew who he was until someone recognised him from a story in the local paper at which point we had to let him go as one of our biggest customers happened to be Railtrack.

EDITED to add...

A quick google suggests my memory isn't as good as I thought it was and actually he was profiting because he was selling the trains to the heritage people.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/222883.stm

Edited by jurbie on Monday 30th November 23:31