Big or small, cheap or expensive.
Did you find any specific use for the item?
No. Edit: Wait, COVID. I took COVID home.
Hahaha fuck yeah!
Microwave, lounge, fridge, dozen office chairs and a shit load of stationary.
Office was closing down and the local boss said anything not on the asset register was fair game!
Nothing big but I’m the one in the office who decides what gets thrown away. It’s amazing what I find dumpster diving immediately after I’ve cleaned an area.
So much shit. I work in restaurants so I take food all the time. My food budget is tiny.
Back when I was much more brazen, all my plates, cups, pots, pans and cleaning supplies were from work.
The rate at which I steal from work is directly proportional to my pay rate.
The rate at which I steal from work is directly proportional to my pay rate.
So the more you get paid, the more you steal? (sorry, had to 😛 it’s quite obvious what you mean of course)
Oh this happened to me in reverse. My workplace (a client’s office, technically) dumped a bunch of stuff at my house without permission, and I did not keep it. Expected me to store boxes and boxes of financial records, for infinity years, no contract or anything. They also defaulted on money owed to me, which I had to pay taxes on, even though I received nothing. Never have I met such an arrogantly entitled company owner.
Sold it all as scrap paper. Recovered 0.005% of the money owed this way. Later their company was dissolved due to nonpayment of taxes. If they ever come back to the country, they may have heir passport withheld until they pay what’s owed. Which is whatever the tax department says it is, because they have no financial records.
Now, if I was trying to destroy financial records, I could think of worse ways than for them to “accidentally” be shipped to an employee and “lost.” Even better if the employee actually destroys them for me.
It kind of sounds like the sort of antics a company about to go under and unable to pay debtors/taxes might do…
Doesn’t work that way here. The tax department already has a copy of all these records. The company just lost their copy. So now that tax department can claim anything they want :)
Also I was not an employee. If I was, then I might have some obligation to do something. However these were former clients who simply didn’t pay their bills (so… not even clients). So no contractual agreement existed between them and me – for a contract to be valid, it has to include due consideration (e.g. a payment received in return for some service). Since I was never paid, no valid contract existed.
Hmm. But can you get in trouble for destroying this financial record stuff?
No. He’s responsible for caring for those, not me. If I dump my tax records on your front lawn, that’s on me – you can just leave them there in the rain or wait for the city to pick them up. If there was some form of contract in place I would be more careful, of course.
(FYI my current home is 18 square meters. There is no front lawn. Storing them would be impossible even if I wanted to)
