OK, fess up! Give a rough estimate of how much you've jacked in office supplies at the current job AND in all your jobs combined... I bet we could get into the thousands if we added it all up!
I don't know if it counts, but I stole a decent amount of supplies from my college wen I was there. Mostly printer paper and print cartridges.
There is a cool song by King Missile called Take Stuff From Work. Wanna hear it? Here it goes: Take stuff from work. It's the best way to feel better about your job. Never buy pens or pencils or paper. Take 'em from work. Rubber bands, paper clips, memo pads, folders-take 'em from work. It's the best way to feel better about your low pay and appalling working conditions. Take an ashtray-they got plenty. Take coat hangers. Take a, take a trash can. Why buy a file cabinet? Why buy a phone? Why buy a personal computer or word processor? Take 'em from work. I took a whole desk from the last place I worked. They never noticed and it looks great in my apartment. Take an electric pencil sharpener. Take a case of white-out; you might need it one day. Take some from work It's your duty as an oppressed worker to steal from your exploiters. It's gonna be an outstanding day. Take stuff from work. And goof off on the company time. I wrote this at work. They're paying me to write about stuff I steal from them. Life is good.
Current job - $0.00 I get paid too much to risk getting fired over a few pens and pencils. Past jobs - no comment.
Damn near $1,000. I worked in the meat department of a grocery store for almost two years and every day we cooked all kinds of stuff and wrote it off as samples even though less than half of it made it to the display. I also ganked about thirty magazines (not an exaggeration) and countless other stuff (steaks, fish, milk, etc.). Don't be an ******* to your employees.
It wasn't office supplies, but god I loved working at the olive garden. Have you ever heard of the soup and salad scam? you think a waiter hates having that low tab all the time at lunch, think again.
Oh yeah, also had access to a price tag maker and would buy VHS cassettes and fillet mignons for like ten cents a pop. Damn. Now I'm starting to miss that job.
I don't have much use for staplers and printer paper at home. All the expensive stuff is hard to get a hold of at my job.
Ditto. Although, this thread makes me wonder. I have a contract employee thats been asking for an abnormal amount of HP Toner cartridges lately.
When I used to wait tables we had a lunch buffet. Very easy to steal from. Say a two top comes in and is seated in your section, you go to the table and take their order... Two buffets and two iced teas. You bring them their plates tea and since nothing ever had to be entered in the computer (no food to be cooked) you simply saved passed receipts with common buffet combinations, ie. two buffets and two teas and reused old tickets. If the party payed in cash you were set, instead of making the typical two or three dollar tip you now take home the amount of the check and the tip. Needless to say this caught on pretty quick with the wait staff and the restaurant was soon out of business.
ganked! One of the finest words in the world, man I haven't heard that in ages. I've probably "long-term borrowed" a lot of stuff, not really office supplies, usually older computer equipment and a dude's red stapler, man that pissed him off.
Yeah, stealing from a restaurant is pretty much standard policy... I used to work in a Mexican restaurant, and for each shift we worked, we were allowed to order one meal from the menu, the only stipulation being that the item couldn't have fajita meat in it... What, you're paying me $2.15/hour and I can't get any fajita meat?? Screw that, we were swiping it right and left. The busboys were even worse! The cooks actually started hiding the fajita meat from the busboys
Or you could just sell you shift meal to a customer. Bar tenders do this all the time. The biggest most expensive drink you sell goes in your pocket.
Make that three of us. Buying office supplies is by far my least favorite job duty. The only good thing is that I keep all the free samples from the vendors who are trying to get our business.
soup and salad is one of the most popular items at the olive garden. As a lunch waiter, you stockpile tickets for soup and salads with various additional items such as iced tea iced tea ssal pasta fagioli ssal pasta fagioli or raspberry lemonade ssal pasta fagioli whenever a table is ready to pay out, you drop the old ticket, if the table pays cash you just made yourself twelve dollars plus tip at night it is closer to twenty dollars per two people oh the joys of being an evil youth
you can get even more devious by holding open old tickets of other tabs that were paid out in cash, that way if the table pays by credit card, you run the credit for the appropriate amount on an old cash ticket
by the way, i recently graduated from UofH with a finance degree, would anyone like to bring me on in there finance department or have i said too much
