Anyone stolen anything?

[Cliftonite]

WJNB said:

Is fiddling expenses stealing?
Is using an employee product discount scheme to make money by selling them on stealing?
Is taking at least a half day off per week, often a day off per week to pursue a hobby stealing?
Is putting a couple of gallons of company paid fuel into your own car every month stealing?
Should the above indiscretions over a period of 30+ years be regarded as stealing then I'm a thief & one without conscience.
Sadly these days it would all be impossible what with vehicle trackers & smart-arsed accountants.

Some people are honest. Some are thieves.

It was ever thus.

[DaveGoddard]

Japveesix said:

I did this once and left and went home totally oblivious . Had a call from the police the next day saying I was on camera filling and running or whatever they called it and needed to go and pay immediately. They seemed to know I hadn't done it intentionally as there was about 30mins of footage of me casually wandering the isles buying olives and wine before I walked out in no hurry at all.

So you're the guy who leaves his car on a pump for ages while shopping and blocks it for everyone else in the queue

There's a big pot of pens on my desk, most of which I've pinched from various places I've worked over the years, but I don't recall ever pinching anything other than that. A few weeks ago I was sending a parcel at the post office and had also picked up a pack of envelopes to pay for, but due to the guy on the counter having an argument with another customer at the same time I got distracted and walked out having only paid for the parcel, and it was only as I was walking away from the shop I realised and doubled back to pay for the envelopes.

[Fleckers]

littlebasher said:

Any trip to a breakers yard would yield a few 'souvenirs'. It's no wonder so many don't let customers on site any more!

I worked in a breakers on a Saturday when at school people would steal anything often saw them accidentally dropping things over the fence and then casually walking out and finding their item outside picking it up and leaving

I saw the governor on more than 1 occasion hurl a wheel brace through the back window of the cars and give chase on foot

In a Sainsbury’s many years back at the till saw 2 guys it’s trolling stacked full of meat just walk out without paying the till lady said to me did you see that to which I said yes and off these 2 run pushing their trollies with a security guard shouting stop

Security guard did not give chase

[Dr Doofenshmirtz]

Many, many supermarket bags. Relays and bulbs from breakers yards. The odd cable from work. Some creative expense claims...just the usual it seems.