FiveFingerDiscount.com?

phillippaxton writes: "According to this link, dot-bomb victims are creating their own severance packages, no doubt walking away with the typical office tchotchkes (staplers, tape dispensers, etc.) but also big ticket items such as plush furniture, copiers, high-powered network servers, etc. One anecdote cites someone who lifted $445,549 of equipment, then tried to sell it on eBay as a company liquidating their assets." On the other hand, the fact that it's illegal to stiff your employees out of wages due them, even in a bankruptcy, isn't mentioned in the article...

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Because you have free will.

[Ars-Fartsica]

I don't recall anyone holding a gun to your head forcing you to work at one office instead of another. You made a choice to go and work at a company, and when you steal from it, you are stealing from the funds that will eventually go to pay ALL former employees, so you are also stealing from the receptionist who is trying to support two kids on a third of your pay.

I cannot believe the horseshit I am seeing posted on this topic. You spoiled fucks have got yourself so convinced that there is some "PHB" conspiracy to oppress geeks that you now are writing yourselves a blank check to commit theft because you think Monty Burns is out to get you.

Just remember this when you go to start your own business, and the "geeks" who spend 90% of their time playing Doom start taking home the laptops because you are oppressing them.

Re:You are an immoral cunt of the highest order

[Rogerborg]

• The next time your apartment is robbed, I just want you to remember that the guy who did it was "oppressed" just like you, you spoiled fuck

Where's the analogy? Unless I was robbed by someone that I knew, that I'd lied to, cheated, treated like shit, and already stolen from, you have no argument. And why are you "quoting" words that I didn't use? I don't feel sorry for myself, I'm way better off than 99% of the world's population, and my god I know it. I don't need to loot my office, but I'm going to do it anyway because I'm feeling betrayed and angry. It's affirmitive action.

• don't have the wits to figure out that they can get up and leave their job any goddam moment they feel they are getting a raw deal

I'd love to still be that angry. Do you have a mortage? Dependents? A pension plan? Health insurance? A basic grasp of what some sectors of the tech market are like right now?

And something else. I refuse to assume that all employers are lying, cheating, thieving bastards. When they say that they value their employees, that they want a relationship based on trust, I actually believe it. I'd hate to be so cynical that I didn't. And so when I get screwed, it hurts. I feel betrayed. This is quite apart from broken contractual promises.

So don't tell me to toughen up and keep changing jobs. Or do it with the knowledge that replacing a skilled techie costs a company in the region of $50,000 (my employer's own figures). So by changing jobs every time that I'm not happy, I'd cost them money anyway. Did that occur to you?