Originally Posted by tore

Unless I get angry, I'm not a very confrontational person and I care so little about "company gum" that people stealing it didn't really fire me up. I think it just made me feel stressed and slightly depressed. Of course I'd try and get the stuff back and then sometimes they'd take off. My boss wanted me to run after them. I didn't argue with him, but I secretly thought to myself "and possibly get in a fight over gum?" No way, Josè.

So yeah, I ran after them a few times, but my vigilance was pretty half-assed.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.