Workplace Debate Series 4: Can you take company items home?
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These past few days, I encountered a strange thing. The dish soap the company kept in the restroom was actually taken away whole, bottle and all. In other words, this month, if we wash the dishes after lunch, we can only rinse them with water. This leads to a thought: For things from the company, regardless of their size or value, if you could take them home, would you do so? What would you take home?
I don’t think it matters; as long as it doesn’t involve company secrets, what’s the big deal about some small office supplies? Besides, sometimes I have to work overtime when I get home, and the company doesn’t pay me for it!
I brought back a lot of single-sided printed waste paper to use as draft paper. . .
Are you sure it’s waste paper? Isn’t it a violation of company confidentiality? ;P We used to not allow it.
You can’t take something that doesn’t belong to you, but it can’t be stated in absolute terms either; for example, it’s common to use waste paper to wrap things and take them away.
The issue with waste paper is quite troublesome. Taking it out by myself; seems like no one pays any attention ； But if you want to sell waste paper, that won’t work ； Because only the aunt in charge of cleaning has the right to sell it. The reason given at the time seemed to be that if we sold it, it would constitute a breach of company secrets.
Not taking company property is a basic issue of moral integrity!
It’s probably not right to take away items meant for public use like hand soap; taking the toilet paper from the bathroom means other people will have to use their hands instead.
There’s no need to elevate it to such a high level, right? Notebook, journal, ink pen. . . Does that not work either?
You need to go handle some matters tomorrow and require a copy of your ID card; will you print it at the company’s copier?
Not only hand sanitizer, but dish soap was taken as well; the whole bottle had hardly been used at all.