Why are some people so dishonest?!

Oh, that is awful. How could someone do that. I mean he really put his job on the line by doing that. Does he think it is worth it? But sometimes people just do stupid things. Maybe he thought that since you said it didn't belong to you that he might as well keep it.

this is a sad story, and a sad reflection on humanity! And we are forced to be victims, as we have to let these service people into our homes! Good on you, reporting him was "top notch." I am wondering about the company supplying these services...do they NOT have a criminal record check, and are their employees not bonded! Check your home carefully, something else might be missing! I am sorry for you, as it seems like a personal violation of your private space! And to top it all off, you were so cordial!

That's bad and stupid! Now youalso have to waste your own time to wait for him too? Whatever excuse will he make for having taken it in the first place?? Yes I lost a bracelet years ago. I had the painters in for a few days decorating my house and I had a habit of leaving it in the kitchen when I took it off before putting on a saucepan of water to boil the pasta. That evening I left it there and the next morning it was gone and the painters had already arrived. I never got it back. I know it was my own fault for leaving it thre but surely in my own home I can leave things where I know I would find them later?

Could the router be part of his company's equipment? Some companies loan them out with their service. I know that in the early days of cable, the "cable box" (the equipment for changing channels) was on loan from the company. If you cancelled, they took it back.

Dishonesty is increasing all over the world. I think our unlimited desires is the cause. now, man's desires are the maximum. he wants everything and that is what we are taught from childhood. We are taught to be ambitious, to achieve more and more. However, one has to remember that there are not unlimited opportunities to fulfil our unlimited desires.

Really a fool man.How can he be so much dihonest. A similar incidence was there.A cableman came to my house and i was about to give him some instrument for ease of his work.when i got inside of my room and came back i found my some cd's are not there.so i just checked his bag and i found them there.that was a real funny experience for me.

Where are people's morals these days? So many believe they just have the right to go into someone else's home and take things. How crazy is that? This man was there to perform a service and he takes something from your home. He should be fired. He stole something and I agree, it probably was no accident. He just figured you wouldn't miss it because you admitted it wasn't yours.

yes it happened with me too and mostly such workers do it...we lost one mobile durign rennovation and some clothes, new pant of my hubby....the painters took it away while it was drying....and when such work is going on in the house, things are scattered here and there as we can't move freely in the house and they take the benefit of such situations.

Yes, i have had things dissappear. It just feels so unjust because i do not steal. I dont even barrow. Anymore i dont loan. Whats even weirder is when something comes up missing but later returns to an odd location. A location you know you did not put it cause you have been there many times while your item was missing.

Hi there! Well luckily I have never experienced anything like that. Whenever I let other people inside the house, I don't get my eyes off of them. I watch them intently if they will try to steal something. It's not that I don't trust people but I am always careful about letting strangers inside the house. We don't really know what those cable guys or repairmen are thinking so I'm just being cautious. But if ever that happens to me I will call the company and report immediately what their employee did. I'll make sure that they return whatever the person took from me. Ciao!

Gee - I hope you got the router back! Some people are incredible - it never ceases to amaze me. A few years ago, my son had a car accident - he and his friends had to get out of the car quickly, as it was perched half over a bridge. The car was towed to a smash repairs place, and when my son went there later, he found $40 was gone from the glovebox. He and his friends had been on their way to a party and had put the money in to buy drinks. So, someone helped themselves - either from the tow company or the smash place. We'll never know. It adds insult to injury, though!

It saddens me that some people cannot be trusted. I have no idea what that guy was thinking, like he wouldn't get caught, what a dishonest idiot! I recently had my purse taken out of my bag with our entire pay in it. I was sitting at a table in MacDonalds answering a text message and had my bag right next to me and I mean right next to me. I stupidly forgot to clasp it shut and my purse was visible. I don't know how they did it but when I glanced at my bag the purse was gone. I received a phone call later that evening from a gas station; apparently my purse was found in the ladies toilet with all its contents except money and credit cards strewn all over the floor. I was very upset as we could not afford to lose all that money and I felt so hurt that another person would do that to another. It really really hurts that there are individuals out there who don't care at all and will blatantly take what others have worked hard for. The guy who came to your house probably deserves to lose his job but if he has been given another chance I sincerely hope he will come to the realization of how immoral his behaviour was and change his ways.

I dont think he stole it....i think he removed it. You said "It was here when i got here....must be landlords" And he came to fit a whole new system and therefore it wasnt needed anymore. I think he just removed it as it was no longer needed and probably never thought that you would mind. He may have just thought he was doing you a favour by getting rid of it for you. There really is no need to jump to conclusions about it. As the other guy said "Why would he steal it?" ......it isnt worth his job is it?

Ohh wow, I can't believe he stole that! He probably did something similiar and got away with it. He made a mistake by mentioning it! Do you think you would have noticed if he hadn't said anything? I've never had anyone try to steal something from me (that I know of.) I would be livid if they did though! I hope that man loses his job.

some people are that dumb just cause you said it wasnt yours didnt mean he should take it . So hope ya get it back. Yup I didnt know for about a month till I got bank statement and found a check spent I didnt write. I went to the place that it was wrote on and they said I sure wasnt the perosn also wnet to bank! showed them well did some investugation and found out it was a girl that had been in the house stole it out of my purse Now i know the family was broke and I wouldnt have minded so much but she bought clothes instead of food for herkids! grrr andy way took her to the store and they told me it had been her. Well my hubby was the foreman over her hubby . DIdnt get the money back but she never came ariound again. and know her hubby really gave her a bawling out. Just hope she never did that to any one else!

Well, I think that was a pretty stupid thing for him to have done. He knew you knew about the router and yet he was willing to risk his job for the few dollars it may have been worth. It makes me think that with all this sort of greed and dishonesty it's no wonder that we are facing such abysmal times.. :-( Derek

i just knew u were going to say he took it. glad u did call the company, i would have to. i hate a liar & a thief. i hope u get it back. the landlord should prosecute if u don't. no sense in people acting like that!!

We rent a home with a yard. I love tulips and other flowers where you simply put in the bulbs in the fall and be done with it for years to come. Anyhow, I had done that in the fall just after we moved in and was happy to see the tulips in the spring. Well, that fall we had some water problems in the basement and the landlord sent some contractors over to fix it. It was a couple (a man and a woman). They took the flower bed apart and much further than need be. Apparently the woman saw the tulip bulbs and decided to collect them all. At first I thought she was nice enough to save them for me to put them aside so nicely. I thought they would put them back in or something. No. She got a bucket from the truck, put them in there, and proceeded to put the bucket in the truck and to clean up. I went outside and told her that I put those tulips in and really would like to put them back into the flowerbed when they were done. She was upset, dumped them in the driveway and said that I should get them in the ground right away or they'll be bad... Then they continued to clean up and she intentionally stepped on a couple (I couldn't get them gathered up fast enough). Yes, it's just flower bulbs, and they are not that costly, but it's the point of it. You just don't take something from somebody's residence even if you think it's not theirs. I can't believe the guts of that guy who came to your house and took the router. I'm sure he'll talk his way out of it and claim he grabbed it by accident... yeah right!

Hello marina321, I think that with the economy as it is today people are more pressed about evey other thing that they may be doing things that they would not do before, everone is looking for something to help thier situation out and that means stealing and cheating from each other. It's a sad reality all we can do is pray for that person and let God bring them out of what ever struggle they may be in. Then again some people just love to take from others, Have a good day.

Yes as a matter of fact. But it was my change they took and it was my family and they showed my son how to steal my change. I no longer let them in my house. My son has learned over the years not to steal my money/change as it can be painful. Or very cold. You have a great day. Your friend onlydia