Employee gets fired for taking recycled computer mouse nobody was using: 'It’s against company policy to take things from the electronics bin'

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    TIFU by going through my company's dumpster S This happened last year but having settled into a new job where I'm happy, I feel like I can finally post this. I work for a company that has a large bin specifically for used electronics. Sometimes not even used. They will throw out items that are still not even opened and still in original packaging
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    After having worked at this company for 3 years, my sister dropped by to grab lunch and I showed her around the office. We get to the recycle dumpster and she asks what it is and I tell her that's where we put old electronics. There is a computer mouse, still unopened, and she asks if she can take it and I tell her not a problem since it's there to be disposed of. Employees grab things from there time to time if there is something good. She takes it, we go grab lunch
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    A week passes by and I get called into a meeting with my boss and HR manager saying they have footage of me stealing company property and I ask them what they are talking about. They play the recording of me and my sister at the bin and her grabbing the computer mouse.
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    Apparently, it's against company policy to take things from the electronics bin, but they usually let it slide for employees. But because I let a non employee take stuff from there, it was an issue. What proceeded was a month long HR investigation, during which time I did my job as normal, after which I was informed I was being terminated
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    Thankfully, after about 2 months of being unemployed, I found another job with better pay and better work environment so it ended up working out
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    TL;DR I let my sister grab a computer mouse from my company's recycle bin. Resulted in me being fired
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    Vecii 13 hr. ago Seems pretty petty to fire someone over a $15 mouse from the dumpster. 1.4k Reply Share
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    stowaway36 12 hr. ago People can be so silly, we'd rather throw it away, but if you want it it's company property... I once spent an afternoon smashing about 100 or so computer monitors before throwing them away, after the entire office got new monitors. The smashing was so nobody could take them from the dumpster. ↑ 206 Reply Share
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    iShitSkittles 13 hr. ago Does the new job have a better dumpster too? 160 Reply Share
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    HauntingArtichoke830 OP. 12 hr. ago Haha unfortunately no dumpsters at the new job
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    Comfortable-Policy 70. 11 hr. ago They wanted you out and sister gave them a reason
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    litido5 8 hr. ago A lot of things get destroyed to prevent them getting fixed and sold reconditioned or secondhand and spoiling the market. Everything in the world is deliberately made more expensive this way even the food we eat. Because marketing. It kinda
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    gellenburg 12 hr. ago Now you need to head back there every weekend and take as much as you can and sell it on ebay.
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    KoalaGrunt0311 - 12 hr. ago Was it a dumpster for just electronics? I've heard of guys getting terminated from theft for taking stuff out of the company's scrap dumpster. Never considered that when you're in a field that makes a lot of scrap, the scrap yard has bins that come to you. The shop I worked at used the scrap funds for employee parties. I know recycling electronics for precious metals was huge at one point.
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    HauntingArtichoke830 OP. 12 hr. ago Yeah it was 2 large plastic bins specifically for the electronics
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    candyman106 · 3 hr. ago How the were you supposed to know you were breaking a rule if they never even enforce that rule in the first place? No first warning is insane. Just straight to fired.
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    iama_bad_person ⚫ 5 hr. ago I bet everyone there still tells the story of the guy who let their sister take from the recycle dumpster and screwed it for everyone else

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