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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Used to work in a painting hangar and guys would regularly pilfer supplies. For most people it was just touch up brushes or minijet cups for minor stuff at home, but some people would be stealing whole rolls of masking tape, suits and hoods, sandpaper, bottles of rubbing alcohol and acetone, etc.

I know at least one guy who confided in me that he made a mint stealing supplies and painting cars on the side. He said the only thing he paid for was paint. I think the only reason nobody ever got called out on it was because our work was so good we were a preferred painter for UAE and Qatar planes, so everyone in the C-Suite was making millions of dollars and paying jack shit to the workers, and I'm guessing they figured the shrinkage was an acceptable cost of doing business.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

For a while my network switches were pilfered from the tech recycle bin at work. And oh so many laptop power cables (the Surface ones) so now I have one at every seat in my house.

Not so much stolen, but I was... unofficially gifted...a high performance SSD that had been sitting unused at the office for a few years. No one claimed it so I was told to take it.

And then the usual stack of notebooks, reams of paper, pens, and pencils from the office supply.

My home first aid kit is pretty well stocked too, totally unrelated to the individually packaged piles of pills at work of course.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

So many bolts...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I have spent a lot of my life scavenging old tech others have lost the use for. A couple months ago I picked up a projector I can hook up to a laptop to watch movies. That's the biggest/nicest I've taken from work.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

2 couches. Still have one of em

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Many times over the years. Just yesterday I stole a brand new cordless mouse, because I was using a cheap shitty chinese one at home.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

just a bunch of floppy disks and recordable CDs.

I also wanted to take home a 386 PC that was rotting in the closet, but I missed that, tho that machine was massive.

edit: this was recently

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

An ADSL modem after work upgraded to fibre, I think that's about it. They probably would've given it if I asked anyway.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm amazed how many people are thieves. I don't mean that in a judgemental way. It's just so different to how I love my life. I'm somewhat taken aback by the comments about what people have stolen.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's kind of cultural. See some gloves from work at a coworker's house? Meh. Coworker wraps their body with welding cables and smuggles it out? High fives all around.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I work in IT, I have a tendency to “decommission’ hardware so it can be “recycled”

Through this method I have several enterprise switches, a home server, several very nice laptops.

I worked for a company that got bought out, but the field office had some uncounted inventory. By the time the buyers got to it, the inventory matches their spreadsheet exactly.

Their spreadsheet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Loads pf unwanted forgotten tech

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