Stuff acquired from work

[Spanglepants]

First job when I left school was in a women clothes warehouse. One guy used to fold up blouses and put them in a clean tobacco tin to take home for his mum.
Another woman used to put stolen clothes on under her own, whilst wearing a big jacket home, it was so blatantly obvious she looked way bigger leaving than when she turned up Im surprised she was never caught.

[DrDeAtH]

robinessex said:

I once heard that a whole car was smuggled out of the FoMoCo Dagenham production building bit by bit.

I heard that rumour when I worked there... The truthnof of unknown.

However, the main items of thievery were from the engine plant. A few assembly line guys got rumbled with stocks of diesel injectors, injection pumps, alternators and turbos.

Stuff they could smuggle out in holdalls.. It was a pretty good haul, police made arrests, Ford got their kit back....

[Jim the Sunderer]

DrDeAtH said:

robinessex said:

I once heard that a whole car was smuggled out of the FoMoCo Dagenham production building bit by bit.

I heard that rumour when I worked there... The truthnof of unknown.

However, the main items of thievery were from the engine plant. A few assembly line guys got rumbled with stocks of diesel injectors, injection pumps, alternators and turbos.

Stuff they could smuggle out in holdalls.. It was a pretty good haul, police made arrests, Ford got their kit back....

Perhaps if they used injectors that weren't shagged after 100,000 miles they wouldn't be worth so much on the black market.

[straight dad]

Any chance of the OP smuggling some paragraphs from work?

[robinessex]

straight dad said:

Any chance of the OP smuggling some paragraphs from work?

This is a forum, not A level English paper. Is the spelling ok ?

[CaptainSlow]

...an A Level English paper...

[robinessex]

Thanks to the last two posters, you've enhanced the content of this post immensely.

[Starfighter]

My dad worked at a large industrial site in the north east. A guy there used to commute by bike but was knocked off in the crush at the gate. It took 2 to lift the bike as the frame was full of mercury being smuggled out.

I have a selection of surplus items from when the factory was shut.

[Downward]

Plenty of people stealing a living from the NHS according to some people in the Pensions thread !


Anyway talking of NHS
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2381814/Be...

Cleaner having a laugh gets sacked

Same NHS trust decide to employ Jacqui Smith as Chairman

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2084510/...

[Evanivitch]

I've got some 50 cal and 7.62 brass. They were probably going to get reloaded but they didn't mind a few going spare.

[Buster73]

I've just thrown out a pair of British Leyland badged overalls I was wearing on the day I got made redundant.

My boss at the time asked me to wash them and return them asap, that was 35 years ago.

[glasgowrob]

plenty over the years. nothing thats getting mentioned though


talking of theft from work, where do you think have the cheap genuine parts on eBay come from?

main dealer mechanics have a nasty habit of servicing a car with nothing more than oil from the overhead lines and the full service kit goes into the toolbox, particularly rife with a certain dealer group thats prevalent in Scotland

[The Vambo]

I worked at a home delivery platform for Comet in the run up to the business being wound up.

I couldn't believe the amount of picking mistakes that the night loaders were making in the last couple of days, delivery crews reporting short stock everywhere.

[catfood12]

A local fella tried to pinch a whole boat from Sunseeker;

Reasonable Telegraph link;

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1549470/Emp...

Outrageous DM link;

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-450193/Boa...

[eliot]

Starfighter said:

. It took 2 to lift the bike as the frame was full of mercury being smuggled out.

Not sure why you would smuggle murcury out - perhaps lead though?

[anonymous-user]

I worked at a diy chain main distribution centre.

There was a scam where a customer would ring up for returns and we would collect them. Well this gang got together and decided to miss out the whole return to warehouse bit, got a van a few hi-vis and went and did the collections themselves. Did this for about a year before getting rumbled and banged up.

I've worked at a couple of companies that have closed down, never took anything but a colleague took a computer.

Edited by The Spruce goose on Sunday 29th November 21:28

[PAUL500]

I used to work on a petrochem site that had recently had a massive new extension built onto it, the main contractor for the work had over ordered some very chunky electrical cable (over an inch in diameter) on large wooden reels that just sat in a compound for a few years as surplus stock, no dept actually took ownership of it, so it just sat there, and odd bits taken off as an when maintenance was needed.

It was a 24 hour working site, and one of the contractors compounds was a ramshackle mess of containers, old sheds, portacabins etc.

It turned out that one of the sheds had been converted into a mini cable stripping facility, and when the night shift was on and it was nice and dark, reels of the surplus cable were forklifted next to it, the cable fed through a hole in the shed and inside was a table, chair and grinder and the cable was being sliced into foot long lengths, stripped of the outer plastic sheathing and the solid copper core piled up on the shed floor.

Apparently a few at a time were then laid at the bottom of the culprits sports bag holdalls everyday as they happily whistled past security going through the turnstiles on the way home in the morning from their shift! the company had no idea how long this had been going on for, or how many tons of copper had been spirited away.

They only found out when one day an ambulance was called to the contractors compound as a guy had been sparked clean out after an argument, it turns out he had got cold feet and was about to blab about the operation, so one of the other conspirators chinned him!

Edited by PAUL500 on Sunday 29th November 21:36

[PAUL500]

The other I was told about was at a local aluminium works, they regularly had scrap trucks leaving site with builder type skips full of old crap, but underneath the crud were brand new coiled rolls of aluminium sheet put their by an insider overnight!

[Benjurs]

Downward said:

Plenty of people stealing a living from the NHS according to some people in the Pensions thread !


Anyway talking of NHS
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2381814/Be...

Cleaner having a laugh gets sacked

Same NHS trust decide to employ Jacqui Smith as Chairman

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2084510/...

Cleaner is a thieving sh@t and gets caught by her own stupidity more like....

[dudleybloke]

One local metal stockholders was split onto 2 sites and the guy supervising the second site had his own company set up to sell off company stock that he made disappear in the paperwork.
I think he got time over it.