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Workplace Theft Is On the Rise (theatlantic.com)
rfengineer tipped us off to this story. The Atlantic reports:
Your office is a den of thieves. Don't take my word for it: When a forensic-accounting firm surveyed workers in 2013, 52 percent admitted to stealing company property. And the thievery is getting worse. The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners reports that theft of "non-cash" property -- ranging from a single pencil in the supply closet to a pallet of them on the company loading dock -- jumped from 10.6 percent of corporate-theft losses in 2002 to 21 percent in 2018. Managers routinely order up to 20 percent more product than is necessary, just to account for sticky-fingered employees.
Some items -- scissors, notebooks, staplers -- are pilfered perennially; others vanish on a seasonal basis: The burn rate on tape spikes when holiday gifts need wrapping, and parents ransack the supply closet in August, to avoid the back-to-school rush at Target. After a new Apple gadget is released, some workers report that their company-issued iPhone is broken -- knowing that IT will furnish a replacement, no questions asked. What's behind this 9-to-5 crime wave? Mark R. Doyle, the president of the loss-prevention consultancy Jack L. Hayes International, points to a decrease in supervision, the ease of reselling purloined products online, and what he alleges is "a general decline in employee honesty."
The report advises companies that the best way to reduce fraud was with surprise audits and data monitoring.
Another interesting statistic? "Fraudsters" who'd been with their company for more than five years "stole twice as much."
Some items -- scissors, notebooks, staplers -- are pilfered perennially; others vanish on a seasonal basis: The burn rate on tape spikes when holiday gifts need wrapping, and parents ransack the supply closet in August, to avoid the back-to-school rush at Target. After a new Apple gadget is released, some workers report that their company-issued iPhone is broken -- knowing that IT will furnish a replacement, no questions asked. What's behind this 9-to-5 crime wave? Mark R. Doyle, the president of the loss-prevention consultancy Jack L. Hayes International, points to a decrease in supervision, the ease of reselling purloined products online, and what he alleges is "a general decline in employee honesty."
The report advises companies that the best way to reduce fraud was with surprise audits and data monitoring.
Another interesting statistic? "Fraudsters" who'd been with their company for more than five years "stole twice as much."
Have they tried not treating their workers like shit? Won't stop all theft, but should reduce it.
Taking a few office supplies for home use every now and then is not a big deal as it has very little if any impact on shareholder value.
You'll find the indians and chinese way out in front.
fill out 5 forums just to get a pen?
do you have my red stapler?
Nothing important going on?
It's not worth getting in trouble for snagging office supplies most of the time, but if you're struggling to make ends meet and your school just sent home a giant list of crap you need for your kid then suddenly it's worth it.
I remember being pretty shocked when even in high school I had to come up with $50-$100 bucks a month in various supplies for my kid's school projects. Crap that, when I was a kid (before the funding cuts of the mid 90s and 2000s) was just part of school.
A buddy of mine recently moved from a poor district to a rich one after saving the down payment to buy a house and was shocked by how much he was saving on school supplies because the school had things like paper, pencils and art supplies.
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I only worked for one company that wasnâ(TM)t run by a total piece of shit in my career, and Iâ(TM)m including a major university. He was forced out by the European ownership. Employers are slime. You canâ(TM)t piss into mister coffee and get tasters choice. It just donâ(TM)t work that way.
Story is about theft from the employer but yeah, there are thieves in the cubes. Have had a good headset stolen off my desk over a weekend. Company issued one was crap so brought in an old gaming one with much better mic & feel when worn. Amazing as everyone there earns an ample paycheck, I guess there was opportunity.
Good, stay out.
Stealing paper, paper or other office supplies pales to other type of theft which is impossible to identify, and, even if identified, can be attributed to the "managerial judgment". Very often managerial personell has meetings in places that can be described either as "exotic" or "touristy". Further, there are lot of employees in the companies that are on the payroll, while doing little or no work at all. However most of the theft should be attributed to the C level people who get companies into dubious business deals. Except for C level crime, the rest of the workplace leakeage is just a "cost of doing business". Large companies operate based on budgets and such missing tapes, scissors or phones is a small part of employee compensation (from business ownership prospective).
Treat workers like crap, and you'll get treated like crap in return. A lot of US employers: (1) Don't want to give time off, even if it's written into the contract. No vacation time and discouraged sick leave are a fucking disgrace. (2) Lobby against things like public insurance, because they want workers tied to their jobs for life, (3) Treat employees like children -- drug-test and thus penalize recreational activity outside the office. (4) Fire employees before their vested to keep them from vesting. Is it any wonder that a few rolls of tape or whatever go missing? I'm surprised more employees don't steal more things, frankly.
When employees of publications like the New York Times see how much news and comments are censored to guide the readers to the opinions the publications want them to have, they have no more guilt about petty theft than concentration camp inmates have for hoarding food.
I seem to remember a Dilbert book "How to build a better life by stealing office supplies".
The summary didn't mention "envy" as a reason. The disparity in pay and wealth has grown a lot in the last few decades. Contrast Jeff Bezos with an Amazon warehouse worker, or the Walton family vs Walmart clerks. CEOs have always made more than line staff, but the ratio has increased greatly.
I would transition to a system that where employees share in the ownership of the company with stocks issued per hours worked. And that is the ONLY corparate stocks possible. End Wall Street! Then you are stealing from yourself and your fellow workers not from the One Percent.
There, I fixed it for you
We've seen these things happening in so-called communism, where the people believed that the state and the state owned companies don't pay them what they deserve. Even worse the companies are stealing from them, so they're stealing stuff back.
That is where we are now again. Corporations acting like microcosms communism with dictator assholes at the top. They don't allow the workers to form their own groups who represent their interests, like unions, and gauge their employees to a point where they start to fight back in their own (stupid) ways.
It cannot be simply true just by fact that all that stuff should be dirty cheap in comparing to the salaries companie pay...
So what??? If normal companies offer even free lunch for their workers, can they survive if worker takes a pencil to home?
That is simply by do not playing any attention for so dirty cheap stuff around. I do not believe somebody can make or loose serious money on that...
'acquire' interest in co., then the physical workplace disappears... cheaper labor almost anywhere?
We are in a depression. People cannot find jobs. The economy is in the tank.
...pay them a living wage & stop stealing their labour/wages. Wage theft is in an order of magnitude a bigger problem & generates a lot of ill-will between employers & employees: https://www.datamaticsinc.com/...
How about an agreement: We won't steal a few $s worth of stationery from you if you don't steal $1000s in wages you owe us? No? Didn't think so.
Debate is a form of harassment. Do not question my truth.
I'm not condoning employee theft, but I understand where they're coming from. With stagnant wages, it should be no surprise to anybody that more employees are committing petty larceny. But the bigger cost is "time theft" when non-smoking workers take smoke breaks too, long visits to the bathroom with a smart phone in the pocket, or the frequent extended lunch break. Employees with stagnant wages will seek just compensation one way or another.
Valid or not, this fine publication will be handy for management to further lean on workers. I expect it will be just a matter of time before people making minimum wage will have deductions from their paychecks for every item needed to do the job. Fine cost cutting under the umbrella of, they would just steal it anyway so they have to buy(only official equipment) from the employer to complete the job.
and CEO's foster a culture of entitlements because why not.
If you go back in time 50 years, office supplies of the sort discussed in the article were paramount. There was no other way to run a business without the physical supplies required to function. So the inventory and management of those items was critical, because the volume of those items used was so high that it directly effected the profit to unsure their efficient use (we processed 5000 accounts this month, we should have consumed X amount of resources A, B and C). Now that it is possible and desirable to go "paper free", the management of physical office supplies has fallen to the wayside. Businesses recognize that these things must be needed for some tasks, and so they provide them. However since they do not drive the bottom line, and the volume consumed is an order of magnitude less, they are not managed as closely. So now it is easier than ever to take things even though the volume of those items consumed by a business is far less.
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During an office 'cubicle densification' -- another form of workplace fraud, where companies steal square footage from their workers :-P -- in the absence of guidance, many people boxed up the stuff they wanted to keep and dumped out their office drawers into boxes, which probably went back out onto one of those pallets and likely straight into the trash.
I expect this problem to go away within our lifetimes, anyway, with continuous progress towards ubiquitous electronic documents and data interchange in a paperless office. Pencils? Erasers? I'm surprised they're still even stocked in these cabinets. At least when they're stolen, they're being *used* in the schools where they end up.
Raise the pay, have employees purchase and maintain their own supplies, and put a Nazi in charge of the office printer.
Now that I think about it, the Nazi probably can fix the office supply theft problem without so much input from management...
I steal time for my own private thoughts. And maybe some room to keep my private stuff.
After years of flat pay (i.e. not even a cost of living raise), no performance bonuses, nothing but an email letter for your job anniversary - you're surprised that worker loyalty and morality has fallen? Bwahahahahahahahah - what goes around comes around.
If your job includes doing work at home (either officially or unofficially), perhaps you need supplies at home to do so. Now I would hope that taking such needed supplies home would be approved by the company - and I am fortunate enough to work for a company that feels this way - I can take home pretty much anything I need to for my job, but for companies that don't, perhaps asking people to extend their work lives into their home lives is a driver for physical parts of the office "migrating" to the home "office".
If corporations had better profit sharing options the employees would have more respect for the property and take less.
Have internal marketplaces offering those products at cost and reducing supply available to force conservation.
Also even though it is fixable or still has use left within it's lifespan the rise of throw away single use culture increases demand and waste.
Let me look at my pen collection. I still have a lot of pens from three jobs ago. Two jobs ago, the office supply room was under lock and key and you had to demonstrate to the secretary you needed something before getting it (I was never ever able to convince that beautiful latina young secretary I needed passionate lovemaking in the closet with her to improve employee morale). There were some but not many pens around at my last job. In my current job, the place of being for pens is always empty.
Pens? Sure, I'll take home one or two a week. I would never take a box home or anything like that.
I'm still disappointed I never made love to that beautiful young secretary.
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But they told me to act like I own the company.
"Well, good luck finding a judge that doesn't run a bestiality site."
This is simple people trying to take back what they haven't gotten. That is, cost of living raises.
In fact it's cheaper for companies to allow this "theft" than to give proportional raises for cost of living.
So the real story is, why are people being paid less even though cost of living increases? The answer is simple: Profit.
I used to work for a well known software company. Some time after the dot com crash they decided to tighten spending and cut down on stocking the supply rooms we had on each floor.
Fast forward a few months and here we are, about 10 engineers in a meeting room and all of the white board markers are used up.
Somebody goes to the supply room across the hallway. No markers there. They go to all the other floors' supplies rooms. No markers there either. We had to find another unoccupied meeting room that still had working pens and take one. It took 15 minutes. How many times did this scenario repeat? How many hours were wasted tracking down supplies?
What do you think is cheaper? Losing a few office supplies to theft or having employees you pay 6 figures sit idle?
Now that corporations have legalized theft by shifting their tax burden to individual income tax, all while not raising wages even the tiniest amount, can we really call this theft at all? In fact, I might go so far as to say there’s a moral prerogative to steal from those who aren’t paying their fair share or we’re enabling them.
If you nick a pencil a day and a notepad per week then you will tend to get more the longer you're there. This is like, maths and stuff.
Also, the ones who are really shit at getting away with it tend to get caught & fired, thereby removing themselves from the pool. They should invent a name for that - survivorship bias, or something.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
I think in general people today have a sense of entitlement about everything. Its the poor me generation where if someone has more I deserve to have some. After all they can afford to buy more, so what's the problem. The problem is there is always someone poorer then you who also thinks this way about you. Its called theft a crime in most of the world no matter what you think you deserve.
in the DC area, specifically, the White House.
I remember buying a RAM upgrade for my company laptop using my own funds simply because it was so much easier than bothering with getting manager approval, filling out the purchase order paperwork, and waiting for it to trickle down through the purchasing manager, IT dept, etc. I saw some RAM on sale for a good price, I quickly bought it using my own funds, and I stuck it in my company's laptop myself. Saved the company time and money because they'd have bought it at a non-sale price, wasted a lot more people's time with all the red-tape, and now I'm more productive/happy because I'm not fighting with a laggy computer to do my work on.
I suspect a lot of this pen and pencil theft is a lot of the same, just in the other direction. The company consumes almost all of an employee's time, making it difficult and a waste of time to drive down to the office supply store, wait around in line, just to buy a couple cheap pens and pencils when the office supply cabinet is already fully stocked with those things and the company doesn't really care how many of them you take as long as it's not outrageous.
I suppose in today's day when anything can be ordered online in a snap and delivered next day with free shipping, maybe it doesn't make sense to risk stealing the office's pen/pencil considering the potential financial loss if you get fired over it. Still, if an employer fired someone over an occasional pen taken home, I think I'd rather like to find a nicer employer if possible.
Stop lumping the guy who went home with a pen (literally anyone) alongside the chick stealing boxes of pens and selling them online.
There is a very big difference between the person who just doesn't sweat their location when they print something and the person who deliberately prints and binds copies of books from project guttenberg to resell.
What I lose in being limited by only my own potential, I gain by not losing to dirtbag employees. Self employment solves a lot of problems
the 2008 market crash left a lot of folks on the edge, and almost nobody recovered. More than one study has shown that the economy recovered by 2010 but all the gains since the crash went to the top.
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still mange to take breaks they're not supposed to. Everybody does. Humans aren't good at working continuously for long hours without rest. Some can, and we have a bad habit of treating those people as the norm and calling out anyone who can't do that as lazy thieves... kinda like you just did.
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I'm just doing what the Managers do!
but what you take home that matters.
USB, USB, USB!
So when you have dudes like penis-head-lookalike-motherfucker Jeff Bezos making a gazillion dollars off the backs of underpayed and overworked employees that are working essentially little more than indentured servitude jobs for chump change wages and zero benefits....wait for it...I'm sure its a shocker that said employees will be taking everything that isn't nailed down.
Here's a thought....start paying your fucking employees a living wage and benefits. Pretty sure if you do the theft will drop way the fuck off.
But they won't pay a decent wage with benefits, because the beancounters have done the math already and calculated that its cheaper to absorb the theft losses, which just get passed on to the consumer.
Welcome to the fucking 'gig' economy.
People have to get their raises somehow.
Laws are rules for the court, but merely a bottom bar to hit for life. Think beyond laws in your actions always.
is no longer taught - it's "don't get caught" vs "don't do wrong". Part of that is the establishment of atheism as a religion sanctioned by the state, part is shitty parenting, or the use of media and daycare to replace it.
And yeah, a lotta people are broke, especially compared to the fake world they see in the media. That wasn't an excuse for stealing back in the day.
But now we also have no charity, because we believe a bigger government with more entitlements and new deals is the way, vs responsibility. Let me know how that works out. I'm glad I'm too old to see where this goes, because it's not rocket surgery to predict.
It's quite possible that most people ARE assholes, you know. There's no reason it can't be true, and plenty of evidence that it is.
It isn’t theft, it is a perk.
You don't think that adds up?
Everyone has pencils and post it notes from work at home. I use them to take notes all the time so I have a pile of them in the drawer now.
It's such an approved of practice.. or at least it was in the old days of human dignity; That businesses would print their name, services, and contact info on every bit of office stationery small enough to fit in your pocket. Remember that?
For all we know 51% of employees admit to having pencils at home and and 1% stealing other shit. Once there was a place where people were stealing tape on christmas!
You should find out who is trying to sell you... you might like what they got.
And I can't say I can refute them.
Much like the criminal justice system, employee loyalty, honesty and trust only comes if the other side offers the same in return. When you can't trust cops, or your corporate overlords, people become more likely to question why the rules apply to them when they apparently don't apply to those across the fence. When that happen quasi-anarchy reigns. If you want balance returned then cops/politicians/elites need to be brought to justice, and the same applies to corporate overlords. If they aren't taking care of their employees, then they need to be brought to heel by government intervention, because the employees have little enough relative wealth in modern american society to stand up to their corporate overlords without starving to death or becoming homeless first. And at that point they don't apply for the majority of government statistics making them a 'ghost problem'.
People prefer a shitty job to no job. People handle this cognitive dissonance by slacking-off (avoidance) and sabotage (retaliation). I suspect, dumping personal issues on their employer is the real motivation for this: In this case, they are the same thing.
At my office, it is the snacks. I have seen a number of people load up their backpacks to look like they just raided a 7-11. Easily over $15-$20 worth of stuff.
No they paid for my standup desk and my mac too. I just needed a new pen.
You, the poor sucker who could have had a better life but instead he takes it like a man when lumborgh pulls him into the office to have a serious closed-door discussion about how on earth we can be using up gold stars and red arrows at 5x the rate of plain yellow post-its.
I was a big bitch who ran away like a pussy and got a better job when by god I'd already been given something 10x better! and I threw it away! That thing I threw away was a difficult challenge.
When I was a kid dad taught me "don't get caught" probably not a good thing really, because it's bad for general character and morals. I wish I could change but the tightass part of me hates seeing waste, loves saving money!
I've stolen from every single job I have over the years, a whole massive variety of things, cups, phones, cables etc. I'd describe myself as a fairly good thief, because I'm smart about it.
You learn early on, that if you ask your boss "Hey what about that old hard drive in the corner of the room from that old laptop we threw out" that MOST of the time that will not only remind them of the item existing but they'll move it somewhere, not make use of it, but they'll know *YOU* asked about it.
So, I now move the items I want to,... 'appropriate' and simply wait until an opportunity arises and I'm fairly confident no one knows where the item is anymore. If it IS missed, well, it's still here to be found!
I have obtained hundreds and hundreds of items from about 10 or 15 different jobs and I've never been done, I mean hundreds and hundreds of things. The *new* value of the items would have to exceed $100,000. (Only an idiot steals new shit from work)
MOST of the time, it's an item which is forgotten about, stuffed in a cupboard and would then be thrown out 4 years later during a cleanup, meanwhile it's depreciating in those 4 years or being perfectly usable for parents / friends computer needs etc.
I started writing a comprehensive list out but ..... I think it would be unwise, ... suffice to say a lot of stuff, a LOT of stuff.
Working in the environments I have, I've seen businesses *pay* in excess of $150 per PC for someone to take away a computer, which we've already dban'd so the person taking it away can wipe the case of the machine with a nice soapy cloth, dry it, re-install Windows with the valid damn Windows key sticker on the side of it and sell it for another $250.
I've seen a LOT of this, I can't tell you how much.
Then there's the "this entire computer is going to the shredders due to data" when you can just dban the machine or even throw the hard drive away if you're idiotically paranoid and replace it. SO much waste.
I'd actually be a very good asset manager, because I memorise physical items all too well, I'd be able to wisely sell all the old items and if I got just 5% of the value of the crap I sold for a medium to large business it'd cover my wage handily.
As for why this is occurring this is a much bigger topic which makes me less and less guilty about this shit.
These places will outsource you, they'll retrench you, they'll keep your wages low if they can, the government sees you as a source of income only, they'll gladly sell you out to the highest bidder if they could. Employers see you as en expense.
Wages in my country have stagnated for a decade. Housing costs tripled, jobs are more scarce, workers rights eroded. Cost of living is up.
If you CAN get away with ... 'liberating' goods, then why not? Why should I buy my aunt a new $300 basic phone when I know there's a drawer with several $1000 phones that are now 2 years old and are just sitting there, to rot and be thrown out when valueless?
Yes, morals not good here, but if I'm not doing it, someone else will or stuff will go to waste. Heck I'm helping the environment by recycling stuff arguably.
People want to feel looked after and respected in the workplace, valued. They're no longer valued, so why should they respect the workplace? Dumb thief, takes from the till, smart thief takes from the rubbish skip out the back. (and it makes me irate how that's still seen as 'wrong' in so many businesses)
I bet you live in a house you have owned for a long time. Look at the cost of property - that is, the cost of middle class life - today. $80k is a shitty wage in any city in the country.
Big Brother will save us all from office supply pilferage!!
Most people end up feeling like the "company" owes them, and will try to get what's owed in ways that might be questionable, but rational in the mind of the employee.
When, after 5, 10, 15, 20, 25+ years with a company, and the salary at X years, barely covers the inflation rate + cost of insurance increases over those 20 years, guess what...
The company *DOES* indeed owe those employees something extra, in many cases, a *LOT* of something extra.
Stealing 1.3 million in meat is obviously theft. But some pencils or pens? That's ridiculous to worry about. Taking some oreos leftover from a party? Not really even theft!
What's next? Getting upset about "stealing" electricity when you charge your cell phone? People do it all the time. Over the past 15 years I've probably "stolen" 10s of pennies of electricity! Call a cop!
Or how about that theft of paper when you print something out at work! Paper is about .02 a sheet. I've probably printed maybe 5 pages a year, for a total of 75 pages, or $1.50! Crime wave!
Get over it. I'd never take coffee or Windex for the office, that's just weird. But sure, my parents brought home pens and pencils from work all the time. Big deal!
No, not for any large company, or most companies, but for some smart, small businesses. That is, my grandfather always kept plenty of snacks, drinks, etc. available for his employees, and he'd ensure their kids - if they stopped by - wouldn't leave without a bunch.
The result?
* A tax deduction on those snacks, drinks, etc.
* Happier employees, who worked harder and felt like they were family.
Not sure if thief is on the rise or just more security in the workplace :-)
just a side note, Years ago when I worked at walmart, more employees got fired for stealing than shoplifters caught.
I worked at Cisco and we had a whole roomful of stuff stored away in an unused closet. OK some of it was older, but this was electronics equipment and obviously we wouldn't want some random contractor to come in and mess about with it. Some fat guy came in one day, and without telling anybody, just cleaned out the entire room.
You're entitled if you think being in the top 10% is 'shitty wages'.
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I managed 4 storerooms for a large city. We stocked really nice pigskin leather gloves, batteries, hand tools and brass water meters and parts. I told my employees to charge items to our department if they wanted batteries for a radio, gloves or other items. I know they still stole stuff.. The safety officer told me she would prefer people used safety gear at home so they wouldn't get injured and miss time at work. The water meters were a real theft problem. Old or obsolete ones were supposed to be returned to the meter shop for repair or saved to be sold as scrap but most were taken by employees to a recycler and the money was kept, hundreds of dollars a week. I gave that info to the purchasing agent for action. People were allow to resign or else be prosecuted. A friend wanted me to give hm around $200 worth of wrenches. No way Jose.
Yes the real thieves are those who steal pencils , but a CEO earning 20x+ the average worker isnt theft.
Workplace theft just indicates the bosses not doing good enough job. If we think of a scale from stealing a bread from a poor child to Robin Hood, or stealing from whatever seems more modern to you - Soros, Rotschild etc., then your location on that scale just shows how good the working conditions are. It is not even your own choice, you are somewhere on that scale. You can be principial and never do it, but you would not condemn a cow orker doing it to a perceived prick boss.
... By stealing office supplies
Minimum wage means minimum loyalty because your drones are only able to afford minimum supplies and minimum luxuries. And that's not even taking into consideration the amount of random thefts done just because they're _convenient._ How is someone's life improved by stealing a pen or a towel? Clearly they think they need that now and there's something preventing them from just buying it. Stealing a ladder or drill is theft, stealing a pen is below the horizon of caring what it is. Is there a point where wage is so minimum that it's a cause of minor self-destructive tendencies?
Wait a minute - from your link it seems like 'purchasing power' for people who do the actual work hasn't gone up but actually decreased. Meanwhile 'top earners' get more and more exponentially.
But how can this be? We are not thieving liars after all, something is wrong here ?
We require the return of smartphones when replacing broken, or just upgrading. Rarely do people ask to keep the broken item. Doesn't matter if it took a bath or got smashed, we want it back. If the phone is is working condition we reuse as a spare, or if salvageable we recycle them for some credit.
one Tory Minister, Chris Grayling, just awarded a contract to run a ferry service to a company that has no ferries, for about 6.5 million pound. It then turned out that what he did was illegal, because he hadn't gone through normal procurement procedures, and paid 33 million pount in damages to a real ferry company. That's about 40 million out of utter stupidity. However, that is nothing compared to about £2.5 BILLION damages he caused earlier.
So WTF are you talking here about some pencils? (Or look at the 8.8 billion dollars that HP wasted on buying Autonomy. )
The answer would be simple and immediately implemented: pay them more so they don't want to steal and risk their cushy job.
Yet when it is the workers, suddenly paying them less isn't supposed to make them criminals and thieves....
If you think you're in the top10% then you don't know where that statistic comes from, putting you in the bottom 10% in intelligence.
Compare living on the streets because wages don't pay for rent AND food but you still get paid, to living on the streets because this is somalia and there's no wages at all, so they have to work for food directly.
One is in the top 10% the other not.
But which life would YOU pick? Or is it not so easy, despite one being 80% "better off"?
More blacks are in jail, then again, the most christian nation in the world (USA) is the most in jail, so this means christians commit the most crime, yes? Remember the blacks tend to be more christian too.
Then again, whites steal the most. They steal millions as execs and they're almost 100% white. They steal more than a thousand black people.
So I guess white people are more criminal too. Someone who steals candy is not as criminal as someone who robs a bank. Especially as the CEO of that bank.
And they not only have that sense of entitlement, they damn well GET that entitlement. And morons hoping one day to BE the entitled, will defend them from any and every accusation and vilify anyone NOT the elite (unless that elite also happens to be Jewish, THAT is either NWO or "the establishment", so not the actual top, just those who "stole their way to the top") so they don't have to.
When tax raises for the rich come up, the rich don;t have to shout it down and threaten government with "Well if you do that, I'll take all my money and leave" because YOU fucking morons will do it for them. Yet if workers threaten strikes, suddenly it is an attack against free enterprise....
Perhaps paying your employees a reasonable salary?
It's not an increase in theft. It's an increase in people admitting to it.
It's the same theft for the same reasons (pick yours, plenty of discussion about that already)
The change is people are now aware of the bullshit "are you willing to lie" psychology tests employers are using and they now know the "wrong" answer to the question of "Have you ever stolen from your employer no matter how small the item is?" is "No"
The tests are done during hiring and by now most people have switched jobs and been subjected to them, and then talked about them online or with other employees.
So they say "Yes" to that question, knowing there's some egghead consultant back in the HR office somewhere that will flag that is "this person is willing to lie to us" (because by some measure, everybody has "stolen" something from an employer so the only possible correct answer is "Yes")
Junk science.
I suspect the "rise" is due in large part to improved record keeping (real time reporting of materials used for example), data mining techniques and the algorithms that process the data, combine to give businesses a much clearer picture of where, when and what are disappearing from the workplace, and who may be taking it, at a significantly cheaper cost and much closer to real time. From what I've read, employee theft has been a problem since the start of organized work. Certainly, it was rampant in every workplace when I got my first job in 1970. The bigger the company, the more it happens. Every company knew theft was a problem, and had a very rough idea of what employee theft was costing them. Dismissal for theft has always been occurred, but the process to identify, catch and convict the offenders required manpower and time, or a huge helping of luck. A smart cautious thief could operate for decades without raising a red flag, and even blatant thieves were often hard to pick out from the employee pool.
I work for a Fortune 500 company and here's what you'll find in the office supplies cabinet: pads of 8x11 lined paper, a box of cheap stick pens, paper clips and fold back clips. That's it. If you want post-it notes or highlighters, a stapler or tape, that requires a manager's approval. And very little printer paper is kept next to the multifunction printer/scanner/copier, which you have to log into to use so you know you're being monitored. Not much worth stealing here.
"Could be worse...could be raining." Igor
If your company can't engage in ethical behavior or paying the people that helps creating the wealth or treating them not as machinery, then maybe they won't feel the need to do the same behavior the company does.
I worked at a company where they had a full-time job to monitor stationery. How many pens and envelopes would people need to steal to exceed the cost of a dedicated member of staff?!!
Wage slaves have figured out they are paid only a tiny fraction of what their time and efforts are worth, so they are taking extra compensation by helping themselves to office supplies.
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Nowhere does the poster suggest that he/she takes part in the thieving. The view must be awesome from your moral high ground.
It depends where on that 10% you are and how much a person makes needs to be considered against cost of living. $80k in many areas is barely a living wage. In shithole flyover country you can live well.
Most of the $80k+ jobs are in places with high costs of living.
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Have an operations team that's in charge of ordering the supplies in the first place have the key to the supply room. When an employee needs something, the operations member lets them in and sees what they take. Simple. If someone was watching me I'd be less likely to take 20 packs of post it notes at once.