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[Jay&Zobel]

With the amount of unpaid overtime I throw in, trust me - I can take a break when I want :9:

With the amount of unpaid overtime I throw in, trust me - I can take a break when I want


This sort of comment implies that a worker is permitted by their employer to use the work place computer for their personal use.- If that is so, surely the easy way to get/recover access to a site is to ask the employer/web master to re-instate it.

When I started work in the 1950's to take small items from work, a pencil, ballpoint pen, some envelopes etc was considered by most people to be theft and people were prosecuted from time to time. I get the impression now that most employees believe they have a right to take some things or use their employers time for their own purpose and that most would accept this as normal and in no way dishonest.

... or, to take this concept a [ridiculous] stage further ... albeit not work-related:

On one occasion when I accompanied my son-in-law to a Tesco superstore in Aberdeen's outskirts, I left him to scout around for what he needed while I'd a glance through some of the magazines on display on the newspaper stands.

I was flabbergasted when he rebuked me, saying, "You DO realise that that's tantamount to STEALING? ... !". "In what WAY?", I asked him ... to which he replied: "Reading a book, paper or magazine without paying for it, amounts to nothing less than petty THEFT ... theft of newsprint!"

Yeah, all sorts mentioned above are considered stealing... Believe me, in our company lots of random stuff are disappearing, from paperclips, pencils, tape dispensers, to staplers AND EVEN TOILET ROLLS!!! They are even stealing time from the company (Too much tea breaks, talking etc etc)!!