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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Originally posted by zeitghostI remember a salesman who refused to give back his company BMW to the liquidators because they wouldn't pay his £6k expenses.
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Originally posted by zeitghostI remember a guy who stole an Intel MDS II blue box.
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Originally posted by Sysman View PostOne 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.
I think his life then turned to rattulip.
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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.
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Originally posted by PRC1964 View PostYears ago (1980's) in a smallish company. The girl in charge of accounts noticed a few cheques had been taken out from the back of the cheque book.
The MD called a staff meeting and said that if the person returned the money within a week nothing more would be done.
9 days later plod marched in and arrested the head of the research dept who had apparantly spent the lot on hookers.
I never found out how much was taken, but he got locked up for long enough to find out if he liked "Gladiator movies".
Or a few really, really good ones ...
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Years ago (1980's) in a smallish company. The girl in charge of accounts noticed a few cheques had been taken out from the back of the cheque book.
The MD called a staff meeting and said that if the person returned the money within a week nothing more would be done.
9 days later plod marched in and arrested the head of the research dept who had apparantly spent the lot on hookers.
I never found out how much was taken, but he got locked up for long enough to find out if he liked "Gladiator movies".
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According to a Dilbert book I read about 10 years ago, you hadn't taken enough floppies home until you had re-roofed your house.
I did have my eye on that 480 GB disk array I configured for Y2K testing, but sadly clientco weren't letting it go. I can't say I'd have liked the leccy bills of course.
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I know of someone who (ahem) liberated a number of bits of Iraqi bakshee from Kuwait when we came back from GRANBY in 1991.
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Originally posted by bobhope View PostI frequently seem to end up leaving a couple of pens in my pocket and taking them home and of course emptying them out before washing.
This made me think, where is the line before you get into the realms of theft?
A few sheets of paper: Ok, a whole 500 sheet ream: pilfering.
What's the most outrageous thing you know of that someone has taken home?
Nomadd
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