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Post by Dylan » Fri Feb 18, 2005 11:32 am

I'm back in the Act-3D office, with the creators of Quest3D. My computer is in the storage room, though it's really just a nice office room which happens to hold all kinds of stuff - it's not like I'm sitting in a broom closet now. :)

Anyway, there's tons of stuff here - hundreds of burnable cd's, Quest3D manuals and t-shirts, paper, etc. Newest and coolest items: probably 50 or so USB memory sticks (128 MB), which will be the new version 3.0 hardware locks.

Quite tempting to pick one up, I'm positive they'd never find out!

But really, I would never steal anything. They'll probably give one to me anyway, if only because I'll get a Quest3D license in a month or so. These guys already bribed me with a Pocket PC too...

So how about you guys? Did you ever steal anything from the office? Or would you?
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Post by Pissin' Poonani » Fri Feb 18, 2005 11:35 am

My fiance gets all our paper, cd's, dvd's, ink cartridges and other odds 'n' sods through her workplace. :)
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Post by Obfleur » Fri Feb 18, 2005 12:02 pm

Two, three years ago I worked at a supermarket.
I stole alot of stuff there. :D
Can't believe I'm still here.
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Post by spiderfrommars » Fri Feb 18, 2005 12:09 pm

Sure I appropriate bits and pieces. Every job has its perks.

Mainly A4 note paper, sellotape, pens.

But in desperate situations I've even stolen toilet paper.

Sometimes I don't know how I live with myself.
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Post by Dylan » Fri Feb 18, 2005 12:34 pm

I don't think I've ever stolen anything in my life.

By accident I once when I was 6 already put a candy in my mouth before I had paid for it. Of course, I confessed instantly and paid for it anyway.

For the rest - hmm... don't think so?
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Post by Impactor returns 2.0 » Fri Feb 18, 2005 12:42 pm

ill keep quiet.
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Post by Obfleur » Fri Feb 18, 2005 12:51 pm

One of the best things I've done was at that supermarket.
We all got new schedules - and my schedule said that I was gonna start at 9 o'clock.
So I went to work and punched in - but the schedules at work wasnt updated, so according to work I wasnt gonna start until 13:00.
So I went home again - without punching out.
Yay! I got paid for being at home. Lovely.
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Post by Impactor returns 2.0 » Fri Feb 18, 2005 1:01 pm

ive punched in whole weeks like that... 8-6 days...
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Post by Obfleur » Fri Feb 18, 2005 1:11 pm

Dude! You're stealing my thunder.
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Post by Impactor returns 2.0 » Fri Feb 18, 2005 1:13 pm

Goatse steals your thunder!
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Post by Obfleur » Fri Feb 18, 2005 1:17 pm

It would be most awesome to have a Goatse-avatar 8)
The ban-factor would be quite high though.
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Post by snarl » Fri Feb 18, 2005 1:21 pm

If you did it really close up... who would know?

I take stuff from the office all the time. My boss has loads of food and stuff for his board meetings, tasty!

Nah, I'm not that bad, but I have had 1 or 2 things. Others here take the absolute pess!
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Post by Best First » Fri Feb 18, 2005 1:25 pm

er... some envelopes i think.

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Post by Dylan » Fri Feb 18, 2005 1:28 pm

I'm enjoying these replies. :twisted:
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Post by Legion » Fri Feb 18, 2005 1:28 pm

i once um, acquired, a laptop...

it was just sitting in this drawer not being used because the boss had labelled it 'broken'... all it was was that the CD drawer was jammed with a windows NT installer disk in the drive, so whenever he turned it on, it tried reinstalling the OS (duh)... soon fixed that with a screw driver once i got it home.

but that was years ago... when i was young and foolish... :twisted:
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Post by Dylan » Fri Feb 18, 2005 1:35 pm

Last week in Norway was insane - the technical university there had a stash of portable beamers and such lying around.
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Post by Obfleur » Fri Feb 18, 2005 1:41 pm

Oh, at the supermarket I used to hide in the room where we stored fruit.
It was nice and quiet - and I could steal delicious and expensive fruit.
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Post by Tired Tracks » Fri Feb 18, 2005 1:45 pm

My only job involved cleaning up after horses.
Nothing to steal there, I should hope. :oops:
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Post by Metal Vendetta » Fri Feb 18, 2005 2:59 pm

Well I help clear out clients' offices, so it's not really stealing if they're going to be getting rid of it, but...

3 PCs
Cambridge Soundworks speaker system (bass speaker, orbitals, speaker wires etc)
Chemical weapons suit & personal survival kit
2 gas masks
A few other bits and bobs...

The general rule of thumb is: will they notice if I take this stuff?
If the answer is no, then I just don't mention it.
I would have waited a ******* eternity for this!!!!
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Post by Dylan » Fri Feb 18, 2005 3:10 pm

Metal Vendetta wrote:The general rule of thumb is: will they notice?
If the answer is no, then I just don't mention it.
The general version of your statement seems widely applicable.

I myself completely don't live by such a philosophy, but that's not the point. :)
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Post by Legion » Fri Feb 18, 2005 3:23 pm

Metal Vendetta wrote:Chemical weapons suit & personal survival kit
cooool! 8)

i'm jealous!
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Post by spiderfrommars » Fri Feb 18, 2005 3:29 pm

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Post by Metal Vendetta » Fri Feb 18, 2005 3:36 pm

Man the chemical weapons survival stuff and the gas masks (and the anti-radiation thyroid blocking pills etc) I could have got enough of that **** to equip a private army. I wish I'd just taken the whole lot of it home in a taxi and stuck it all on ebay, I'd be rich...as it is I just got enough for me and one other person...

...then I gave half of it to Charla to make sure that she'd be ok in Mexico in case of emergencies :(
I would have waited a ******* eternity for this!!!!
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Post by Best First » Fri Feb 18, 2005 3:50 pm

Dylan wrote:
Metal Vendetta wrote:The general rule of thumb is: will they notice?
If the answer is no, then I just don't mention it.
The general version of your statement seems widely applicable.

I myself completely don't live by such a philosophy, but that's not the point. :)
Yes. Dylan actively hopes they will notice so he can laugh in their stupid faces.

The swine.
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Post by Dylan » Fri Feb 18, 2005 4:06 pm

Who's this 'Dylan' you speak of then? :)
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Post by Best First » Fri Feb 18, 2005 4:54 pm

a cunning double bluff and no mistake.
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Post by Optimus Prime Rib » Fri Feb 18, 2005 5:36 pm

If I wanted to I could make off with anything in our restaurant short of steaks. We do a nightly inventory of all the steaks in the building which is counted by the night manager and then double checked by the kitchen manager. Any discrepencies are then checked by the proprietor.

But anything else in the restaurant would be fair game if I wanted it. ESPECIALLY when Im the kitchen manager. Good thing Im honest huh?
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Post by Metal Vendetta » Fri Feb 18, 2005 5:40 pm

If stuff is getting thrown out then I'm such a magpie...at the gf's pub the other week they were getting rid of loads of stuff, so I got a barbeque set, a set of wood-and-iron outdoor furniture (5 chairs and a table), a bar stool, a couple of ashtrays, speaker cable...hell of a time getting it all back on the tube :p
I would have waited a ******* eternity for this!!!!
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Post by Obfleur » Fri Feb 18, 2005 6:39 pm

Dude, I want a gasmask :oops:
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Post by Optimus Prime Rib » Fri Feb 18, 2005 6:47 pm

Obfleur wrote:Dude, I want a gasmask :oops:
youre gonna need one man, I just ate some Frito-Pie
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