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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."
No this is more of the function of the workplace becoming more filled with entitled millennials.
If he's in the US, maybe there's something wrong with 50-hour-per-week, no-vacation, all-work-no-play American "culture." And I use the last word loosely and with great sarcasm.
So you're a moralizing cunt?
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When it's "everybody else is an asshole", it's not. It's YOU.
When my buddy got married for the 4th fucking time, I told him I never wanted to hear any fucking complaints about the woman. Either he sucks at choosing women or he's a giant asshole who drives women away... The only common denominator in those marriages was him.
You're a liberal.. You drip with "I'm blameless. I'm special, I'm a snowflake.. All my employers are meanies!!!. Yeah, you're the common denominator, retard.
Bullshit. Every single job I have ever worked at gave plenty of vacation time. Some paid, some not.. But I can't remember hearing "no you can't take time off" outside of "Can't do it this week, but next week is fine" when we had some big project going.
So tired of you assholes and your excuses for why you act like cunts.
Maybe, just maybe, you should drop the job at Taco Bell. You'll find that out in the real world, where people have jobs that require some skill or intelligence, employers are a whole hell of a lot more accomodating. They tend to be less accommodating when you can be replaced by a mentally retarded chimp....
...pay them a living wage & stop stealing their labour/wages.
As another poster pointed out, he's had items stolen from his desk by people he knows are being well paid. Your argument fails. You can't justify theft. You can try, but you'll fail and we all know you're a thieving cunt with zero morals.
Did they lie on their application?
What parts of their application are fake and fiction?
The work history? The name part? Using fake ID?
Could they pass their tests and exams without no academic considerations?
Do they have a split loyalty to the company, brand due to their politics?
Do people who are part of their social media see theft as part of a normal lifestyle?
Move to a city, part of the USA with less crime.
Communities where police are allowed to enforce city and state laws.
Your company and investment will be welcomed and your property kept safe.
Find a city and state with an actual work ethic and discipline. Not a city that is politically ok with decades of crime.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"