Umm...why would you steal that?

[fireheart]

Not necessarily a customer, but still sucky.

Some guy walked off with our huge green bin the other day. In full view of customers, with nobody watching apparaently.
This bin is the generic rubbish bin for customers and staff to stick all their stuff in. So now we are without a bin.



Dude, if you're gonna STEAL something, at least make it worth your while! If you thought you were going to get credit card details and whatnot, you thought wrong....(the only high-security stuff we tear up and put in the bin behind the counter)

[Geek King]

Actually, there's been a problem with people stealing large garbage cans near my parents. They wait until the garbage truck's been by to empty them, then steal them. Dad believes its some of the local farmers taking them for "free" feed storage bins.

[Frantic Freddie]

When I worked in the liquor store we found some empty O'Doul's in the cooler after a busy evening.WTF,the moron couldn't even steal real beer!

[Andara Bledin]

Considering that a standard outside trash bin costs around $50, that's not exactly a small theft.

^-.-^

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Considering that a standard outside trash bin costs around $50, that's not exactly a small theft.

^-.-^

I think its a little bit more around our parts but not sure.

I'm now tempted to ask if we can cable-tie our bins to each other (meaning that if one guy tries to walk off with the green bin, he'd have to walk off with our plastic bag bin)

My first thought was that the guy was going to look for credit card statements and whatnot since we allow people to pay for that stuff at my work (only for the company cards), but then I remembered two things:

1) We take the statements when people pay for their credit card. Or they don't bring them in anyway.
2) The only other high-secure information we carry is for mobile phone purchases (in Australia there's a legal requirement that you have to show ID and fill out a form informing the government of how many phones you own. This only applies to phones you buy new IIRC) and that gets torn up after the information is put in, and then dumped into the bin behind the counter. The two bins never meet each other.

The green bin in question is a wheely bin and is shaped like this:



About that size too. We have a bigger one for plastic bags...

[vikingchyk]

Dude, if you're gonna STEAL something, at least make it worth your while! If you thought you were going to get credit card details and whatnot, you thought wrong....(the only high-security stuff we tear up and put in the bin behind the counter)

My co-worker loves telling the story of when he worked at a fast food place that had a salad bar (I don't think it was the red-haired pigtails girl - a local place) Some guy comes in, looks at the big bowl with the lettuce in it, and asks if he can have it. Ummm, no you can't. OK. He leaves. A few minutes later, he runs in, grabs the bowl, and runs back out!

People are cRaZY!!

[AccountingDrone]

Back when I was still doing contract compliance for Oakleaf, we had a recurring problem with people on Hawaii's big island working for one particular hauler stealing and repainting bins belonging to the other haulers. As if they couldn't drive around and tell who got repainted bins ...