Not exactly stationary, but… where I work, we have to use boxcutters on a regular basis… we are each given one of our own to keep and store how we will, and there are a couple of spares for us to use should we forget our own or whatever. Owing to my forgetfulness, I figured out one day that I had not only my own, but both spares on my desk at home.

D’oh.

And here be my Tweet…

http://twitter.com/Douglasac10/status/16293545838

I worked at a grocery store in an office [If you can call it that] in the middle of the front end that resembled Grand Central Station. My boss gave of a pouch and told me everyone needed one. Sure enough other coworkers asked for a pen and I could safely say no. Maybe they had no pouch. Mine stayed in my backpack.

Tweet: http://twitter.com/slywy/status/16300597660

Story to come.

I still use a red plastic-trimmed Bostitch half-size stapler from about thirty years ago; it was on the desk when I started, not in the Goody Closet. I did not like the supply cabinet writing instruments including Uniballs and Venus Ticonderoga No. 2 pencils. My well balanced sterling Parker 75 pencil which I kept upright standing on its head next to my telephone disappeared soon after a new employee came on board. I do not feel guilty about my red stapler. I also still use the two unbranded black metal 4″ x 6″ notepaper holders which I took from the Goody Closet to my desk and later home.

Not so much my “jacking” supplies, but the current owner of our company purchased took over from his parents back in the 90′s. For quite a while, his mom kept an office here, but would only come in every couple of weeks. Every time she did, she would complain about people taking her stuff from her desk (staplers, pens, etc.). After about a year, she came in one day and there was someone else working in her office. They had “jacked” her office and moved her to a smaller office upstairs.

Here’s a link to my twitter update.

http://twitter.com/DizzyPen/statuses/16304449710

I used to work a concert venue and musicians kept swiping my Sharpies for autographs – and taking them on the road with them. I mentioned this to a musician friend (now with a major band on a major tour) when he was in town as I loaned him a Sharpie. We both realized the next day – me in Texas, him on another gig in another state – that my Sharpie had gone with him. He thought I was going to kill him – and apologized profusely. I, on the other hand, sent him a box of his own for Christmas.

The Tweet – http://twitter.com/reudaly/status/16304858194

After my personal pen was lifted from my desktop, I taped “STOLEN FROM CLAIRE” to the bottoms of everything else and several surprised lifters apologized.

Here’s the link to my tweet!

http://twitter.com/PearlMom/status/16306015483

Here’s my tweet:

https://twitter.com/gabrielnovo/status/16306314726

I am what one friend calls a “pen snob” as I like a nice pen and even more importantly quality ink. I have had to chase co-workers too many times to get my pen back that when I can I try to have them engraved so it is obvious it is mine! I have converted a few co-workers to nicer pens but still buy my own pen supplies.

Last year my officemates learned that stealing my staple remover was a very bad idea. First, let me make clear that this is not some nifty gadget or brand-new toy; my staple remover was made in China and one of the plastic grips is missing – so it is something of an eyesore, but I love my ugly little staple puller.

In October of last year someone “borrowed” it while I was out sick. When I couldn’t find it on my return, I spent the better part of two hours scouring my cubicle for it, sent a sectionwide email, and was – by all accounts – kind of upset. I surreptitiously checked my coworkers’ desks while they were at lunch, and found it on the desk of someone in another section on our floor. Hed taken my broken staple puller and then wrote his name on it in sharpie. I don’t know why that made me so mad, but for revenge, I liberated the staple puller (scrubbed off the sharpie) and got out my superglue.

Over the next week, I glued his date, approval, and duplicate stamps to his stamp pad, his Post-its to the inside of the dispenser, and put just enough glue in the head of his stapler that it wouldn’t staple. I didn’t feel vindicated enough, so the next week I brought in a rare earth magnet and magnetized his paperclips and binderclips by exposing them overnight. Later that week, I unrolled the roll of labels in his labelprinter and re-wound them backwards so it would print on the paperstrip, not the labels themselves. And about the first week of November, I squirted some of that hand saniziter into a cup and soaked the tips of all his markerpens in it to ruin them. Lastly right before the Christmas holiday, I took some of the keys off his keyboard and filled it with lint from my dryer’s lint-trap and a smashed up peanut butter cracker with a few dollops of syrup before replacing the keys. He was on vacation until after the new year, so it all had time to attract bugs and mold up nicely before his return.

While no one could prove I was the culprit, it was the worst kept secret in the office that I did it. Now, people still borrow things, use my stickynotes and paperclips, and almost never bring anything back – but if they’ll hand me their papers and ask me to do it before they’d dare touch the staple puller.

Note to self: Don’t work with Laura. Or at least don’t borrow things from her desk.

In my past life in a cube farm (I’m a law student now – current obsession revolves around highlighters – the Sharpie Accent in yellow is my standing favorite) we faced a series of cutbacks in a never ending attempt to save money. So “good” office supplies became treasured and hoarded. I had an entire (locked) drawer of specific types of pens (bic soft feel retractables for me, uniball retractables for my boss as they were only ordering off brand plain ballpoint pens), notebooks (college ruled – the “new” cheap supplies were “regular” ruled), white out pens/tape, and even staples as the “new” cheap ones were off brand that couldn’t handle more than a few pages. I don’t have any revenge stories, but I did have a pretty lucrative bartering system worked out…

Back when I was in the military, one of the general officers was being interviewed by the civilian press. They wanted to know about waste in government spending programs and why there were always cost overruns. The general smiled, looked at them and said “How many of you are using pens with US Army stamped on them?”

hey there! definitely tweeted this: http://twitter.com/pleasedprod/status/16314641597

thanks!

A few years ago I started collecting pencils. I acquired a stash of classic Mongol 482 #2 pencils from Eberhard Faber. I brought a few into the office and added them to my desktop pencil cup, which included pencils of many types. One day I went to grab one of my Mongols and noticed they were all gone. Someone with an eye for fine, classic pencils had bypassed all my others and made off with my Mongols! As irritated as I was, I was equally as intrigued to know who the thief was, since even though we didn’t share similar office values, we did share a love of fine pencils. I sent out an email to the effect that I had had some pencils stolen. Alas, the thief never came forward. But I’ve had no more pencils stolen, either (not even when I brought in more Mongols to replace the stolen ones).

I haven’t ever really had my office supplies taken, but I did pilfer some of the binder clips from work. They make great chip clips.

I tweeted: https://twitter.com/rustysgirl8/status/16318470040

While working in an ad agency, I was given a gold paint marker so that I could make easily visible edits on black glossy paper. For whatever reason, I was the only person in the building who had such a pen, so when someone needed to make a similar edit to a draft, they came looking for me and my pen. Finally, one day one of the Traffic Managers asked for my pen because he needed it for a meeting he needed to be a part of, and grudgingly I handed it over with the understanding that I needed it to do my job, too. Well, a hour and a half passed, and I still didn’t have my pen back even though the meeting had disbursed. I came to find out that not only had the Traffic Manager completely forgotten about the pen, he had given it to another person at the meeting! Not only did I have to hunt the pen down from the other person in another part of the building, I ended up halfway chewing out the Traffic Manager for “losing” it.

At the job I had just given notice at, I used the boss’ nice paper and the office printer to print a big stack of resumes, then used his nice matching envelopes and office stamps to mail them out. I hated that place, and gave notice before I’d lined up a new job (well, I was 22, and not the picture of smart), and gleefully used my time and office resources to look for another one while I was still there.

I used to work in the music industry and was in charge of the company events. I had two personal tape guns for shipping trade show materials, and almost without fail, I would have to hunt around the office for my tape guns whenever a package needed to be shipped. My coworkers were used to seeing me looking for them, and it became an office joke. They’d comment about the tape guns whenever I’d walk around the office.

Okay, time for the real confession! I’ll also admit I’ve “borrowed” supplies from my office to use as home. I’ve thrown pens and highlighters in my laptop bag on the way out to a meeting or a notepad to use for to-do lists at home. It was really just a time-saver more than anything.

http://twitter.com/goldspotpens/statuses/16325839738

When I was contracting as tech writer at a cruise line HQ, they announced they were disbanding a subsidiary line. That day they emptied out the line’s supply closet and I took home a big box of nice stationery and envelopes, good for paying my bills. Of course, that was actually recycling with their permission and technically not supply-jacking – so it’s a great story!

My story actually involves a Swingline sapler…a black one. I received this beauty when I first started working at a large computer company in 1993. She was my only constant desk companion…err…accessory for 13 years. When I was laid off, my boss came on my last day and cleared my desk of all my office supplies, including my beloved Swingline! When he went off to lunch, I swiped my stapler from his office and took it home!

Now, 4 years into my new job…I still have that black steel beauty on my desk!

And my twitter update: http://twitter.com/NorskWoodshop/status/16326543191

Laura-that was neat hearing your story. A while back I had ordered a Parker ballpoint online, innocently left it on my desk while I went to lunch. When I arrived back from my lunch break it was gone. I was SO mad because I had barely received the pen that same day and hardly had any time to even use it. I never discovered who took the pen; although I suspected the UPS delivery guy for a long time. I learned a valuable lesson. You cannot trust anyone when it comes to office supplies, especially if they are cool & neat looking. I now carry all my pen supplies back & forth with me. I don’t want to take any chances especially now that I have got into the fountain pen movement. I think if anyone stole one of those babies I would have to HUNT them down. LOL

Ok, I hope i did this tweet right:
http://twitter.com/mmjcantu/status/16329782956

I don’t work outside the home. I’m a Stay At Home Dad. The problem I have is no one at home can ever put stuff BACK!! Wife or kids. SO my entire office is in a bag. I use my laptop at the dinner table, all my files, pens, notebooks, etc. are in my laptop bag. Plus, they know if they need a pen or pencil they better go find one they lost, not mine!!

And my tweet
http://twitter.com/Aaronjk/status/16330396361

I don’t really work with office supplies, but whenever a friend asks to borrow a pen, I will watch them like a hawk until it’s back in my hands. And I also never loan a pen to anyone in class. Bwhaha! I HATE when people steal pens, especially mine because they aren’t cheap ten cent pens!!!

Okay, so this was actually during elementary school (second grade, if I remember correctly?). I had these cool new Bic Matic grip mechanical pencils. Totally the envy of my class. Haha. Or maybe just of the girl sitting next to me. I left them in my desk overnight, and the next day they were gone. I saw them sitting in the clear front pouch of the backpack of the girl sitting next to me, and she denied they were mine.

I “stole” them back during recess, of course.

I stole some pens. They should have put a chain on them like the stingy banks do.
Goodbuygirl69(at)yahoo(dot)com

And here’s my tweet!:

http://twitter.com/dnasrepma/status/16339792146

i tweeted http://twitter.com/purplelover04/statuses/16340040710

tweet.http://twitter.com/tcarolinep/status/16340725687

http://twitter.com/dwagon/statuses/16341836556

Tweet
https://twitter.com/andymcnally/status/16343013439

I used to always take any pen available around me in my Graphics class and I would never return them.

I used to work at a hotel and I was bad about taking rolls of toilet paper home with me,unfortunately so did other employees so they got caught which meant I had to stop.I still have an office phone from the furniture store I worked at.It is a good phone.

http://twitter.com/Neocaledonian/status/16359457398

Hard to top Laura….I LOVE pens. At meetings, or even just hanging around my desk, I bring my ugliest, heaviest pen when I suspect someone might want to borrow it. Although I like the Rotring Core because it’s unique, it is great for this purpose. Fountain pens are great (even the pretty ones) because it usually takes people some time to figure out how to use it. If they don’t know how to use it, they often hand it back politely saying “thank you, no.” Change-ups are good too…like bringing the pens that have a death-grip compression snap fit cap (they’re afraid to break it), or others that have screw tops instead of snap fit (pull apart, then fear they’ll break it). Another thing is to use bizarre ink colors. Pink, purple, or turquoise in a nearly all-male office is great! Another benefit to the fountain pen!

I believe I may love Laura..in a totally awe-some kinda way…she may be my new hero.

About 5 years ago there was a budget crisis at the police station where I work as a dispatcher. The Chief issued a memo that he would no longer be buying the dispatchers any pens; we were to supply our own. That’s like handing the cops a gun and telling them to get their own bullets with their own money.

Consequently, we became uber-vigilant about “our” pen stash. It was hidden in the desk drawer underneath all the printer ribbons. Each one was marked with masking tape labeled “DISPATCH -HANDS OFF” because they had a tendency to walk away and never return. I also became the world’s biggest shake-down artist…every sergeant who was making a purchase from a vendor was told not to return to the station unless they got promotional pens out of the deal. Some of the best pens we had came from potential vendors.

Then we hired a dispatcher who worked for a doctor’s office as her other job…pen-heaven!!! We had pens for every drug company out there because she took them from that office and brought them to our station. My favorites were the Viagra pens.

The Chief finally caved and let us order pens…he cut his budget by buying the world’s cheapest toilet paper instead…it could be tracing paper it was so see-through. Of course, he also claimed he bought it because it came on a huge roll on a special roller to deter theft…the only time I’d steal that toilet paper is if I needed it to make dress patterns.

Tweeted:
http://twitter.com/auntiethesis/status/16370457201

I purchase office supplies for my company. When the CEO saw that the pens I had been purchasing were not the absolute cheapest I could be buying he made me buy them. No one like these pens. I am a pen snob so I bring my own pens from home. Every time the CEO is in my office, he somehow forgets his pen and needs to borrow mine. I never see them again.

Of course the most common supply-jacking story, is when someone is found with a pen of yours…which you recognize immediately because it was your favorite, and you’d gotten to know the exact shape, contours, even the amount of ink left in it when you last use it. And you accuse them of having taken (or at least found and appropriated!) your precious pen. Then – they reply back with the obvious; “How do you know it’s yours? They must have made thousands of these pens.”

Until they realize that you had wised up, and put a little slip of paper with your name on it, in the cap. You grab it out, and whamo – case solved =)

Except, this happened the opposite way. I had found a pen, and was indignant when someone else said it was theirs – and turned out it was, by the slip of paper inside with their name on it! Drats!

tweeted http://twitter.com/toonces1989/status/16399964534

I work in a school library and I’ve learned that I can’t keep pens in my pencil cup – they walk. I keep an ample supply of pencils in the cup – and they walk too especially if they are sharpened. Then to add insult to injury, my electric pencil sharpener disappeared from my office!

http://twitter.com/jennipearl/status/16400839396

I tweeted: http://twitter.com/hmt90a/status/16402072614

My friend once bought me an authentic “Office Space” red stapler. Then I brought it to work and it was taken. I found it relatively quickly, but the person claimed it was theirs from Staples. My stapler came custom made from eBay, there was a noticeable difference they could not dispute.

I work for a bank and as you know, we take pride in our “pen on a chain” for the illustrious pen pilferer. Well we have one client who we suspected to be a pen thief. We couldn’t prove it of course but each time she visited the customer service desk she would ask to use a pen and that pen would mysteriously disappear. Well one day one of our “pens on a chain” disappeared. Naturally she was the first person we suspected. A few days later she came back to make a withdrawal and pulled a pen from her purse… a pen with part of a chain attached to the top….. haha! We decided not to tell her that stealing from the bank was a federal offense

I’m a grad student, so I tend to “liberate” reams of paper from my workplace. Or I did when I still worked there. I think the first few drafts of my dissertation were printed on liberated paper. But the pens at the old work. .they were horrible. I’d bring in my own Uniball’s and they’s get stolen, and given that I work in the sciences, I just took my revenge by switching to non standard colors like hot pink (paper comments and notes) and purple(writing computer code) which none of the guys would steal.

http://twitter.com/rhatch76/statuses/16433580176

sweet contest!

I labeled all my pens and pencils when i started work this summer. They have all since disappeared from my box at work now i keep everything in my purse. haha. oh well.

http://twitter.com/bored_agitated/status/16342306491

thanks for the sweet opportunity!

http://twitter.com/aksheilaboo/status/16435041981
thanks for the timestamp thing!!! i never understood how to do the status thing

totally rt

http://twitter.com/meettheben/status/16449955243

Alright, so as I was in English class, when my Pentel P205 goes missing! I had already sensed that my friend was the one who took it. At home while texting him, I said “you make sure to return that pencil tomorrow, alright”?
He replies by saying “Haha I just put it down after writing when I read that text.”
I’ve gotten my pencil back

Last year I had a sales internship, selling print advertisements for my school’s daily planner.

Before the internship started I made sure I had a nicer set of pens (instead of your average disposables) in my portfolio that I carried around with me, so I looked more professional.

On one of my first sales calls I let a possible client use it, they looked at it and promptly pocketed it after writing with it. I did not want to be rude, and I didn’t say anything because I was afraid I might ruin a possible sale.

They never bought anything from me, and probably still have my pen.

$100 gift card would certainly cover the cost of my “borrowed” pen

We used to hide writing utensils from a co-worker by lining them up on a shelf just out of her sight. It was quite humorous almost everyone could see the pen(cils) except for her, haha.

That reminds me: I need to borrow more pens from Taylor Chev for selling BS. But then I’d waste money and time stopping my car and going in. Here’s the details:

Two years ago, I took my car in because the wheels were shaking and rattling like the were going to shake right off. Claire H. (Who use to be in a bishopric in a ward I was in once) told me it was my shocks and my engine mounts. He said that my engine was only hanging in there by one engine mount, and would fall out unless they got the parts soon and fixed it right way. I use to trust this guy because of my prior acquaintance with him. I new dang well it was something to do with my brakes or wheels. But I trusted him, I looked at the $800 some bill he and some of his coworkers had written up, and went in. An hour and a 1/2 into the job, I went down the the service bay, and my car was sitting there, just taking up a spot, the hood wasn’t up. That’s when I started to smell a lot of bull. I’d told them to go ahead and order the shocks, but later called them back and canceled that job when I couldn’t stand the smell of bull anymore. They’d probably only tightened my lug nuts, because it started making the same dang noise a week later (I drive this car most every day 50 -75 miles a day or more. Back to today. Having saved up enough money to get the job really fixed this time, and lucky I didn’t have a severe accident in the mean time, I got other estimates around town before giving these guys one more shot. They were almost right this time. But: they told me that it was mostly my front brakes (it was mostly my back brakes — ask the other guys I got estimates from if you don’t believe me). They also said one of the nuts a lug not was attached to was broken. I was getting the smell of bull really strong again. None of the others had mentioned this. I had my brakes, drums and rotors done at a competitor, and there’s no bull farmed on their property. Needless to say, I didn’t get any work done at Taylor Chev, and I’m not going back. These guys think women are bubble brains or something. Don’t take your business to them.

Here’s my tweet:

http://brizzly.com/#twitter/-/user/butlnata

I use to take an occasional pen from Taylor Chev when I had service done. Here’s my post on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/butlnata

http://twitter.com/ebfryer/status/16554153009

Oh man, my coworker had this habit of swiping my many-colored Sharpies. Funny thing was, it was never intentional. He’d borrow one from my big bowl of pens to use in our room, then he’d wander off to another room in the building, Sharpie in hand or pocket. When I ran out, I’d head down to find his basement cache waiting. I almost needed a tub to carry it all back up!

I work in a hospital lab. Our writing consists mostly of approving results with our initials or quickly jotting a few numbers. We get a lot of advertiser pens from drug companies but many of them are cheap and unreliable for short sporadic bursts. A good pen didn’t remain with it’s original owner very long. I kept a “skipping” refill to put in my pen at the end of each day. It kept my pen from being jacked for a long time. Then the thefts increased and others started complaining that their good working pens were missing too. We discovered that nearly everyone in the lab used the “skipper” refill exchange and we were just passing around bad pens.

Tweeted! http://twitter.com/bikeohio/status/16560319062

Although I don’t go to work, I do go to school, which is as close to work I can get.

Anyways, I have a friend who frequently takes my pens. For weeks, or months, I’ll constantly wonder where they’ve gone, until I ask him, and the source of my troubles is found. As of now, he has one of my pens, and maybe more…

https://twitter.com/tiscaleb

I worked for a company that was closing for good. We were told to take whatever office supplies we could use on our last day since they were just going to be thrown out anyway. I still have sticky notes and Scotch tape and staples in my home office from 14 years ago!

I’m a teacher. My students always come to class unprepared! At the end of the day, I walk through the hallways finding pens, pencils and sometimes loose change. I collect it, put the writing instruments in a mug..and thus have loaners for the next day.

Every time I’m absent, my supplies vanish from the class. My beloved super strong one touch stapler as well as my very good scissors have been stolen @ 3 times(came back twice in the past two months). It’s labeled with my name and room number but that has not been a deterrent. School ends on Tuesday for the summer and I hope it reappears on my desk before then……..sigh.

As for pens, when someone asks to borrow one, I don’t give them the cap….that usually helps the instrument be returned right back to me.

I tweeted: http://twitter.com/redlami/status/16699668757

I use a lot of office supplies and certain people ask me to make copies off my personal printer and use all my ink.I finally decided to buy the ink by the large bottles and can not get the ink inside the cartridge.What to do? Thanks for the chance to win.

I tweeted here.

https://twitter.com/carolynishis/status/16703217694

I have a favorite chair at work: It’s clean & comfy, unlike most of the other chairs at work. So I wouldn’t lose it, I wrote my initials on it with a sharpie. Can you believe a co-worker switched mine with hers and tried to white out my initials? And then hung a sweater over the back so I wouldn’t see.

I hope a “keyboard” qualifies as a supply. A Supply-Jacker was loose in my office one day when after 5 years of above average work with great reviews from my manager a new manager entered our office. She wasn’t a fan of mine I suspect as she plotted against me (as I seen it). I was an Administrative Coordinator and performed all the purchasing duties for 15 buildings on top of managing the entire computer system, which I had taken them through a major conversion and assisted with the transfer of data. So anyways, she took my keyboard and switched it with a girl that had some eye infection and the keyboard didn’t work well as the keys stuck. I got an eye infection on my eye lids that NEVER went away. I eventually gave my notice as things progressively went sour and before I left that position she ended up in the hospital with pnemonia and incidentally came back to work and sat across from me at a meeting and I had one week left of work – she gave me pnemonia. The new Legal Secretary position that I was to start didn’t occur due to me picking up pnemonia for 3 months. UGH! All in all, I became a stronger person from the events of my past and went on to become a Sales Rep. for a well-known company and also a Office Furniture Consultant. I’m now an Editor. The only drawback to my office experience is that I can’t get rid of that nasty eye lid fungus that was transmitted from that keyboard. (Sigh)

http://twitter.com/victoria99999/status/16727237470

Tweet tweet!

http://twitter.com/Yellowboze/status/16733619850

1: My best “Supply-Jacker” story is I had this blue stapler it was the best! Like it could punch through like 10 sheets of paper without a problem. My coworker would always want to borrow my stapler. So I decided to put my name on my stapler cause I knew one day someone would swipe it. So one day I came back from vacation and my stapler was gone! I searched everywhere no one said they had it. Low and behold I walk by my coworkers desk and I see a blue stapler. I look underneath it and there is my name. I took it back!!! Cleptos and it was never stolen again.

6/22 post:

https://twitter.com/vmsweet123/status/16805957928

I don’t steal pens. Exactly. It’s more of a relay. I walk out of my office with a pen in my hand, go to reception desk, leave my pen there, and somehow end up back at my office with one of the crappy ballpoints we supply for the patients to fill out their reams of paperwork instead of my spiffy gel pen.

Therefore, I need this gift certificate more than anyone else who has entered, because I have donated an endless supply of gel pens to the eighty year old lady who cleans out our pen cup every time she comes in for an appointment. This will save me from having to go ninja and break into her house in the dead of night to steal them back.

Please divert me from a life of crime.

I don’t steal office supplies, but things have been stolen from me. I always like to buy my own pens, and they seem to be very popular. They seem to just walk away by themselves.

Thanks

I tweeted.

http://twitter.com/ccboobooy/status/16861825284

There’s a cylinder type pencil holder I have at the desk. Even with that contained full of basic pencils, I still manage to catch my buddy co-workers peaking in my stationary drawer for my better writing utensils. I need to restock!

http://twitter.com/Jackson_Sando/status/16883749827