Taking "work" home

[RichardCranium]

One I've just remembered from permie days: The guy who was still running around in his company car a year after he'd left. Probably still had his petrol card too.

Oh, yeah. Software house, 20-odd years ago. One of the tops salesmen disappeared. The senior managers & his wife were very concerned. He turned up a month later (eventually they reported his company car as stolen and he was found that way) in a B&B somewhere. He had gone to a competitor with the sales database and they'd taken it but not him.

I think his life then turned to rattulip.

[Addanc]

I remember a guy who stole an Intel MDS II blue box.

No big loss there, it would have died after a couple of weeks. Even if reliable there's the problem of the 7" or was it 9" floppy disks that could hold about as much as a gnats todger. Should have been paid to dispose of it.

[Sysman]

I remember a salesman who refused to give back his company BMW to the liquidators because they wouldn't pay his £6k expenses.

Did he win? Expenses owed = unsecured credit in liquidators' eyes so you get nowt. I found this out the hard way

[VectraMan]

One place I worked a security guard nicked a load of MSDN CDs. Not sure what he wanted with those, maybe he heard IT was lucrative and thought he could learn.

[Sysman]

One chap was doing his best to empty a warehouse in the evenings. He spun security a good tale about the overtime he was earning and they assumed it was legit. He had legitimate looking trucks rolling up to take the stuff away.

[The Lone Gunman]

On a large construction site in the 80s someone half inched a portacabin. One of those long office ones including its contents.
Organised a low loader and crane to lift it.
Just drove off site with it. Security did not even consider questioning it.
Caused a hell of a fuss.

[Cliphead]

My last permie job was working for a US broadcast company who went bust. Told me to help myself to any kit lieu of wages.

Between the office in Scotland and the hosting centre in London I scored 10 PC's, 4 servers, 2 Delta 1010's, 2 delta 44's (high end sound cards with breakout boxes), and 2 custom built sound units which I sold to the BBC for £2k apiece.

Lots of small stuff like a dozen unused win2000 server licenses, printers, ISDN kit. Basically cleaned the place out which they weren't expecting but no repercussions.

[Sysman]

On a large construction site in the 80s someone half inched a portacabin. One of those long office ones including its contents.
Organised a low loader and crane to lift it.
Just drove off site with it. Security did not even consider questioning it.
Caused a hell of a fuss.

It's rife in construction. One set of lads used to turn up at construction sites with low loaders and suitable looking paperwork to take JCBs and similar kit away. Since leasing/hiring such kit is common nobody questioned them, and by the time they realised what had happened said kit was already out on lease or hire elsewhere. They didn't make the mistake of selling the things outright.