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Old 12-23-2014, 04:41 PM   #176
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
I'm not sure that I agree with you, Helen. I suspect that almost all of us have been guilty of using company resources for personal benefit - eg taking a company-supplied pen home - but equally I think most of us would be able to make a clear distinction between taking a pen home and, say, stealing a $500 laptop. There's a clear duty to report the latter, to my mind.
I agree. Everybody has used a phone, or used the Internet to make an appointment, AND, I know that some of those newsgroups still exist because they send out emails--and so employees aren't busted looking at forums, rather than diligently sitting over their computers "working on email."

But that is a far cry from walking off with a laptop, or a TV. Wasn't it reported that Amazon was actually pretty horrified, when they discovered the sheer extent of the theft? I mean, reliably reported*, in court documents? It wasn't petty pilfering (the occasional office supplies) but fairly massive? Or am I imagining this?


* Warning, short rant about the state of journalism today:
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I just want to further opine that it's a sad, sad day when I need to look at COURT DOCUMENTS to find out actual facts, because "journalism" has been reduced to carrying stories of tattle and titillation, and regurgitating falsehoods fed them by bloggers, "citizen journalists" and interested parties who have no interest in seeing any actual facts emerge. I don't mean solely vis-a-vis Amazon, although that deluge of "bad Amazon" documents/reporting/tittle-tattle has been OBVIOUS to anyone attempting to observe this from an unbiased viewpoint, but ALL journalism, on ALL sides of the political spectrum.

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