Do you steal from your employer?
By dragon54u
@dragon54u (31633)
United States
October 7, 2008 6:28pm CST
I doubt that any of you dip into petty cash or take home office supplies or shoplift merchandise, but are you stealing in other ways? I've worked a lot of temp jobs this past year and I see people robbing their employer daily.
When you go to work for someone, you are selling them a block of your time and you do what they ask you to in return for a paycheck. When you make or receive social calls at work or text a friend or play computer games, you're stealing that amount of time from your employer. It's pretty much to same as going to him or her and demanding they give you money you haven't worked for. Because you're not working, you're taking the time you've sold them and using it for your own purposes instead of giving them what they've contracted with you for. You're stealing money.
So are any of you guilty of this? Do you realize you're robbing your employer or do you have a different opinion from mine?
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3 responses
@underdogtoo (9579)
• Philippines
8 Oct 08
Stealing is easy for some people, impossible for me. We have been brought up to be honest in every way. This is simply what is is with me.
@dragon54u (31633)
• United States
8 Oct 08
I have been taught that my good name is all I really have in life--my family can be taken away, my assets, everything can be stripped from me but the name I have made for myself. I won't jeopardize that by using my employer's time for a social phone call or a game of solitaire.
Good for you! Your parents have done well, please let them know that.
@desertdarlene (8911)
• United States
8 Oct 08
No, I try to do my work and I don't get any personal calls at all. When I worked full-time, I did most of my personal calls during my break. I sometimes will check the weather or the news for a minute on the internet and that's it. But, I do see other co-workers posting to Myspace and a bunch of other sites that I know they shouldn't. Yet, they get heaps of praise and all I get is punishment if I do any little thing.
@dragon54u (31633)
• United States
8 Oct 08
That's really unfair. My employer told me the first day that she had access to everything on my computer but emphasized that she was telling me not to make me feel badly but so I wouldn't "feel violated". I laughed! It was just so funny, thinking someone would feel violated if their employer caught them doing things they weren't supposed to. She laughed, too, when I explained.
@cripfemme (7698)
• United States
10 Oct 08
I don't steal products or anything. I occasionally print to my poems, an application, or other emails and the like. I might use their phone, but not obsessively. I allow my personal care assistants to use my phone and printer, so I figure no one else who's employee I might be in will mind if I do.
@dragon54u (31633)
• United States
10 Oct 08
That doesn't sound as if you're being abusive about it. I've worked with people before that work maybe ten minutes per hour and the rest of the time they're on their cell phone chatting with a friend or playing games on the internet.
