Reply #61: After reading this thread.... [View All]

...it makes me very happy I work in manufacturing.

Biggest thing I steal is company pens, mostly because when I unload my work pants for washing I'll forget to put the pen back. So I have to get a new pen. Rinse, repeat.

At some point I hit a critical mass at home, when I have enough pens floating around I stop forgetting to grab one.


And ear plugs. I grab a pair when I go shooting. I'm up to three pairs for the year.



I COULD be walking out with thousands of dollars of stuff... hand tools, mostly, but last year two ex-employees stole a multi-thousand-dollar plasma cutter.

Hell, we actually lock up the stainless-steel chips in the recyling dumpster our back because you can get 70¢ a pound for them. Leftovers from the machining and sawing processes, coated in cutting coolant and oil. And people used to steal them.