Yeah, as a teacher I took notebooks and pens n stuff. Ok the other hand, I had to do a lot of that work on my spare time to prepare for lectures and communication with pupils. I also bought stuff for the pupils to make the lectures more interesting as the school has a very strict budget

Used to work in a painting hangar and guys would regularly pilfer supplies. For most people it was just touch up brushes or minijet cups for minor stuff at home, but some people would be stealing whole rolls of masking tape, suits and hoods, sandpaper, bottles of rubbing alcohol and acetone, etc.

I know at least one guy who confided in me that he made a mint stealing supplies and painting cars on the side. He said the only thing he paid for was paint. I think the only reason nobody ever got called out on it was because our work was so good we were a preferred painter for UAE and Qatar planes, so everyone in the C-Suite was making millions of dollars and paying jack shit to the workers, and I’m guessing they figured the shrinkage was an acceptable cost of doing business.

My old workplace had a cafeteria where we ate as much as we wanted for a fixed price taken from our paycheck, the only thing was that we weren’t allowed to take food to bring it home… So I’ve technically stolen a whole lot of muffins over 12 years!

I work in IT, I have a tendency to “decommission’ hardware so it can be “recycled”

Through this method I have several enterprise switches, a home server, several very nice laptops.

I worked for a company that got bought out, but the field office had some uncounted inventory. By the time the buyers got to it, the inventory matches their spreadsheet exactly.

Their spreadsheet.

I pass my own printer’s cartridge to my company for recharging. I don’t print a lot tho and it’s near completely work-related. I thinks it’s a tax on them using signed paper documents in 2023.

Honestly, no, I don’t think so. I’ve taken things home to keep, with permission (limited design beer glasses, mostly, some old uniforms once the design changes); and I’ve taken home disposable supplies without permission (steel scrubs, sharpies, expo markers); and I’ve taken things that would otherwise be thrown out to give as gifts (best one was a six-inch Le Creuset enameled cast iron Dutch oven).

But if a job treats me right I don’t steal, and if they don’t I either force them to or leave.