Do you or have you ever stolen anything from your work?

No. I am not the burglar type.
As it is, I have worked for myself for a long time so that’d be a bit weird.
I don’t cheat on my taxes either.

So @lucillelucillelucille you have never taken anything from your self-employed whatever to use personally? I am self employed and steal myself blind. It’s the only real satisfaction I can get from having to deal with the business tax end of business.

@Vignette – I always return with a with a sheepish expression upon my face,
I know it’s baaaaaaad.

@wowguy Is that tv’s as in televisions? Plural?

If I need a certain drill bit (that I don’t want to buy, seeing it’d be for just one hole, and the bit being expensive), I ask if I can borrow it.
If I need 6 screws, I ask if I can take them, and if I owe them something.
In short, whatever I want to take, be it a scrap piece of wood, a tool, or hardware, I’ll ask it (sometimes I pay something, sometimes I don’t have to).

No saint though; in my teens I stole for a hobby, I’m ashamed to say.

Nothing more than the occasional envelope or pens. An one time I needed printer paper at home so I grabbed a ream from the pile by the copying machine.

@rebbel You have a job here if you ever need one.

Nope.

@Vignette That is very kind of you.
What job would that be, by the way?

@rebbel The job would entail checking the pockets and purses of employees when they leave for the day.

Still kind of you to offer it, but that would not fit me at all; I decline.
Everybody is responsible for their own actions, and I just want to bother with my own.

@rebbel What if you got to use a taser/??

I would nick it.

@rebbel -lol!

Be daft if I did being self employed.
I stole the wife’s heart all those years ago as ours was a work romance.

I took a gallon of milk home that I was told to order for the office but no one was drinking.

I will use our stamps for personal use because I so rarely need them. A coworker just asked to use a stamp for personal use and I had no problem with it.

When I worked in retail and we had to damage out jewelry items (not real or expensive jewelry but like plastic cheap stuff) we would put them in a box for the regional manager to come spray paint red and throw away. Well I like to make jewelry and was able to salvage parts from the broken pieces and fix them or make something else out of them. That was grounds for firing according to our handbook! I would still sneak parts into my purse with out them knowing. It was such a waste to see perfectly good jewelry parts being painted and trashed.

@BackinBlack Retailers and such “destroy in the field” items they do not or cannot sell or return to the manufacturer all to avoid dumpster divers from taking these otherwise good items and simply returning them to the store for a refund. I have this arrangement with Menards to destory the item which is cheaper than shipping them back to me and paying all sorts of ridiculous fees on top of it. Plus I already have credited them for items returned and not resold and certainly do not want someone grabbing these items from the trash and having to pay for them again for being returned.

You mean like a stapler and pens? Of course not!

Other than a paper clip to hold work papers together, no.

But I have always worked in professional office environments (as opposed to retail stores or warehouses) so there’s not much to “steal”.

@Sagacious or it could be like the Johnny Cash song about a guy who built a car from parts he took from his work…”‘I got it one piece at a time and it didn’t cost me a dime”

I’ve printed something personal at work, yes.

@Coolhandluke How can you sleep at night?

@Vignette mostly on my left side.

Only by accident…tucked a pen behind my ears and forgot about it or something.