In article , Chuck Sherwood says...

You are a blacksmith. One of your employees
is taking home coal from your forge. What do you do?

You own a lumber yard. One of your employees
is taking home lumber. What do you do?

You own a trucking company. One of your employees is filling
his vehicle from your pumps. What do you do?
Another employee is using company trucks and fuel to
deliver meals to the elderly. A good deed; but he is
using your vehicles and fuel without your permission. How
do you feel?

You own a small business like Kinkos. One of your employees
makes lots of personal copies on your machines after hours.
Is this ok?

You own a mcdonalds. one or your employees makes himself a
sandwich and eats it. Is he guilting of stealing?

Basically those are all examples of theft, plain and simple.
Even the guy who takes home a *pencil* from his workplace
is likewise guilty of theft. It's true.

I am agreeing with you on this. Does not matter how
well intentioned the act, no matter how selfless, if
you are transferring your employer's resources to somebody
else without their permission then that's that.

So the engineers get fired, and the kids get put in the
graybar hotel. End of story.

Jim


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