it doesn't cost US businesses $52 billion a year cause the money gets poured right back to staples, office depot, costco, etc. it's sorta like deficit spending. but better. everybody wins!!!
i'd like to see all the numbers broken down .. $1 billion is a lot of money but how does it compare to total operating costs?
and how many employees do they figure? if you have 150 million employess at 1 billion per week, that's $6.67 per employee stolen. but what are the numbers!! bean counters want to know.
do i really have to return that plotter i took home last week?
This seems to pop up every few months in the news cycle. I'm never surprised to hear that people "steal" office supplies, but I'm always surprised to see the sense of astonishment and moral outrage expressed in these stories. Employees carrying off the occasional pen, notepad, or roll of tape are just one of the costs of doing business. It's a fringe benefit that makes employees feel good and doesn't cost the employer anywhere near as much as things like providing health insurance or paid leave. If companies really felt differently about the issue, they'd keep their supplies under lock and key.
there was a book out a few years back called sabotage and it was all about the history of workers sabotaging their employers businesses. anyway it was featured on the michael moore television show "tv nation" apparently in this day and age stealing office supplies is how many employees get "even" with their employers. at our office one of my coworkers is doing a reception area for a large company. there security concern is really more about things leaving the company than things being smuggled in.
i liberated much more merchandise as a hungry undergrad at the restaraunt i worked in. i mean face it besides the occasional filet mignon and liquor, there were all the kitchen items that made your house a home. lets see some flare.
I end up inadvertently "stealing" about 25 office pens per month. I don't need that many pens at home, so I round them all up and return them en masse every few months.
I get rid of stuff that's cluttering up my house but that I don't think I should throw away - like old sheets of plexiglass and cheap desk lamps - by bringing them to work and stuffing them in the back of the supply closet.
I get/have gotten more out of my sidejobs than the office. i worked at cost plus for a stint and pretty mcuh their policy is if it is damaged it gets thrown out, after all when you buy everything from other countries, there really isn't a good way to return it. pretty much everyone who worked there had a house furnished by cost plus from the "scratched" end table to the "chipped" dining room table, or the bookshelf with "uneven finish". as long as you could come up with a reason and the right manager was there, you could get some pretty cool stuff. too bad the work environment sucked, otherwise i might have some more furniture to speak of.
The whole 'always have a pen handy' rule contributes greatly to the mass exodus of supplies in my case. And I convinced my office to start stocking my favorite pen.
American workers: rich in office supplies?
"Employees steal more than $1 billion worth of goods from their employers each week, costing U.S. businesses some $52 billion a year, Case estimated."
Congratulations, that's quite an estimate! What exactly are you people stealing?
*puts pilot razor point back in desk*
*whistles nonchalantly*
it doesn't cost US businesses $52 billion a year cause the money gets poured right back to staples, office depot, costco, etc. it's sorta like deficit spending. but better. everybody wins!!!
i'd like to see all the numbers broken down .. $1 billion is a lot of money but how does it compare to total operating costs?
and how many employees do they figure? if you have 150 million employess at 1 billion per week, that's $6.67 per employee stolen. but what are the numbers!! bean counters want to know.
do i really have to return that plotter i took home last week?
ha !!
you took my swingline stapler
ha ha ha! givemeastamp, i have a whole bunch of razor points i've "borrowed" from the office piling up @ home.
""That's just how many people admit it," said John Case, head of Employeetheft.com, a security consulting firm based in Del Mar, California."
is this news or advertising?
i don't know how many millions i made by sneaking fries working at carl's jr. in hgih school.
That settles it, tomorrow I'm bringing in a chisel and will start stealing bricks from the walls.
*most i ever stole from an employer was food from the grocery store i worked at age 16. can almost taste those gourmet pizzas still today.
This seems to pop up every few months in the news cycle. I'm never surprised to hear that people "steal" office supplies, but I'm always surprised to see the sense of astonishment and moral outrage expressed in these stories. Employees carrying off the occasional pen, notepad, or roll of tape are just one of the costs of doing business. It's a fringe benefit that makes employees feel good and doesn't cost the employer anywhere near as much as things like providing health insurance or paid leave. If companies really felt differently about the issue, they'd keep their supplies under lock and key.
there was a book out a few years back called sabotage and it was all about the history of workers sabotaging their employers businesses. anyway it was featured on the michael moore television show "tv nation" apparently in this day and age stealing office supplies is how many employees get "even" with their employers. at our office one of my coworkers is doing a reception area for a large company. there security concern is really more about things leaving the company than things being smuggled in.
i liberated much more merchandise as a hungry undergrad at the restaraunt i worked in. i mean face it besides the occasional filet mignon and liquor, there were all the kitchen items that made your house a home. lets see some flare.
I end up inadvertently "stealing" about 25 office pens per month. I don't need that many pens at home, so I round them all up and return them en masse every few months.
I get rid of stuff that's cluttering up my house but that I don't think I should throw away - like old sheets of plexiglass and cheap desk lamps - by bringing them to work and stuffing them in the back of the supply closet.
also nowhere in these articles is there ever consideration for the countless hours of unpaid overtime that employees are tacitly expected to put in.
as lloyd dobbler so eloquently put it: "i gave her my heart...and she gave me a pen."
I get/have gotten more out of my sidejobs than the office. i worked at cost plus for a stint and pretty mcuh their policy is if it is damaged it gets thrown out, after all when you buy everything from other countries, there really isn't a good way to return it. pretty much everyone who worked there had a house furnished by cost plus from the "scratched" end table to the "chipped" dining room table, or the bookshelf with "uneven finish". as long as you could come up with a reason and the right manager was there, you could get some pretty cool stuff. too bad the work environment sucked, otherwise i might have some more furniture to speak of.
I have a swingline stapler. It's chrome.
The whole 'always have a pen handy' rule contributes greatly to the mass exodus of supplies in my case. And I convinced my office to start stocking my favorite pen.
how do they differentiate between what people stole, and what people use? i throw out pens all the time, and use pads of paper a weeek
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