It's a fair bet that whatever issues you may have with employees taking home the odd stick of RAM or spare mouse, it hasn't added up to this saga at the naval Research Laboratory in Washington DC: a single system administrator, over a ten year period, walked off with almost twenty thousand separate pieces of equipment, totalling some $120,000 in value.

It's enough to make you want to start checking backpacks at the door around quitting time….

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One Response to “And you thought you had pilfering problems”

1. Johnnie Debt says:

   October 3, 2008 at 9:18 am

   Huh, nice. Thank you!!

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