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Heroic IT Dept Less Likely to Steal... Lunches?

An anonymous reader writes "According to an article in the Houston Chronicle concerning lunch theft, people from IT are least likely to steal lunches because they are a "hero department." The most likely? Accounting and Customer-Support... "

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  1. What kind of lunch? by PhrostyMcByte · · Score: 4, Funny

    If you want the IT guys to steal lunch, you've got to bait them with something caffeinated and something sugary. Try some Bawls, Mt. Dew, and Skittles.

  2. Also... by Poromenos1 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Also because the higher-ups are used to stealing!

    Thank you, I'll be here for a bit.

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  3. Wait a minute... by RealGrouchy · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...are you saying that IT workers are allowed to eat lunches?

    That changes everything...

    - RG>

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  4. Re:please, less science, more fluff by AsmCoder8088 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Try digg if you want a watered-down version.

  5. Re:Steal? by Millenniumman · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh yeah? I have to grow the coffee myself, then pick it. Then I grind it with a stone, put it in a bowl (hewn from stone) with water (reclaimed from the air and heated on servers) and I filter it with old AC filters. Then coworkers usually steal the coffee.

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  6. Re:muffins by foniksonik · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's cause a hungry baby has lots of supporters waiting nearby to feed it with their own portion rather than see it go hungry, whereas the CFO has little or no supporters and must fend for himself or die.

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  7. You had water?!? by A+nonymous+Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Back in my day, we had to smash hydrogen and oxygen atoms together to make our own water. Then some high mucketity-muck would come along and steal it. We tried substituting deuterium and tritium instead of hydrogen but they never did steal enough to self-destruct.

    1. Re:You had water?!? by dvice_null · · Score: 4, Funny

      You had oxygen?!

  8. Stealing? How DARE YOU? by Lead+Butthead · · Score: 5, Funny
    Being able to steal a hungry baby's food without any remorse would probably be considered a useful trait for a CFO.
    Stealing? That's not stealing. That's ... unsolicited ownership transfer.
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  9. The true motivator... by tm2b · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's just that IT departments tend to have the highest percentage of employees who remember being beaten up and having their lunch money taken from them!

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  10. Re:Unfortunately.... by MoeDrippins · · Score: 4, Funny

    > Unfortunately, I'm certain that if I made a special lunch sandwich with razorblades, and some bastard stole it and hurt himself, the police would come after me.

    Yeah, our law enforcement has gone totally insane to prosecute you for something like that.

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  11. Re:There is a better way... by Sponge+Bath · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...and soak just about everything in Jalapeños

    Use both laxative and Jalapenos,
    and replace the toilet paper in the bathroom with rabid gerbils.

    Few things are as painful as wiping your burning anus with a rabid gerbil.

  12. i'm not breaking a fifty for a fucking bagel! by weierstrass · · Score: 4, Funny

    maybe they didn't have any change

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