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Have you ever taken something home from a workplace without permission, to keep it? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Big or small, cheap or expensive.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's barely thievery though, I'm talking about going into the office and stealing someone else's laptop, or taking money out of the safe/cash register.

Your example doesn't attribute losses for the company because I doubt they budget the residual value or the old laptop. Therefore you're causing no effect on the victim

We are both refering to "thievery" but you're describing one extreme scenario and I'm describing the other extreme scenario. semantics.

The reason I say what I say, is because somebody stole my car and the term "he could afford it" came up more than once. Meanwhile I was left without transport for a while