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Not a great analogy. It’s more like if you steal their lunch you are more likely to steal money out of their wallet if you run short. Or, if you’ll lie on an ex
by D13Fd 4y ago
Not a great analogy. It’s more like if you steal their lunch you are more likely to steal money out of their wallet if you run short. Or, if you’ll lie on an expense report, you are more likely to falsely shift the blame to them when the chips are down.
It’s not a foregone conclusion, but there is a correlation.
- makeitdouble 4y agoBut if you ever had your lunch stolen at work, did you also end up with your money stolen ? We hear about petty “I put my name on that drink in the fridge and someone drank it” stories relatively frequently. Hell, I’ve witnessed people taking a beer from the fridge with someone’s sticker on it, and shrug it off with “I’ll bring some replacement later” (an no, they don’t) But these people aren’t stealing from their coworker’s wallets, at least I never heard that happening at any of my workplaces. PS: we want there to be a correlation, because it would be really convenient. As in the article, it would help avoid heavy loses by looking at simple signs. I see the impulse, but the world isn’t just that simple.
- gwd 4y ago> Hell, I’ve witnessed people taking a beer from the fridge with someone’s sticker on it, and shrug it off with “I’ll bring some replacement later” (an no, they don’t) If I saw someone do that I would be livid. I would immediately stop what I was doing, say "I can't believe you just did that", and be extremely wary of that person afterwards. The only exception would be if I knew that the two people were good friends; and then a minimum level of courtesy would be to tell your friend later that you took one of their beers.