In 2007 my work paid for my PS3 without them knowing.
I was working at large video hire franchise store here in Australia around that time. We sold consoles, something not many people knew. I preordered a new PS3 through work with the ability to pay off my preorder like a lay buy. At our store, new releases were $6.50, but as usual, we had a multitude of coupons people used, including 1 free new release, which I easily memorized the coupon code. After working there a year, I realized the company did not track the coupons at all. So, every shift, I would charge a customer for their new release like normal and if they were paying cash, put the coupon in on the system without the customer seeing as a free new release. Took payment, till now up $6.50 when it shouldn’t be. I’d do this 4-5 times a shift, spacing out when I did this and tracking how much I was up in the till. At close, on my own, I’d take out how much I was artificially up in the till and pay that off my PS3 preorder. End of the night, tills balanced perfectly and no one batted an eye lid. My PS3 was $999.95 and work paid for the whole thing. I might have even got a new game too and 2nd controller with the preorder, I can’t remember.
It’s both the most ingenious and wrong thing I’ve ever done in my life. And I fight the constant battle of guilt vs pride in what I did.
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all things considered — if this is the worst thing you have done in life.. i think you are okay. unless.. the franchise owner had to file bankruptcy and killed themselves… and your 900$ was the straw that broke the camel’s back.
Does it still work?? :O
awesome job dude dont worry they’ll find a way to steal it back 10 times over
Shit…I often wonder how many points some gas station employees rack up, from people who don’t want/use a rewards card.
Many times, they try to swipe their card before I even get mine out of my damn wallet, or enter my number on the pin pad.
Why the heck was it $900?! That seems so expensive especially back then.
When vice city came out, I played so long the disc started skipping, the rental store didn’t mark them because they were mostly black I think is the reason. Rented a copy, called almost right away and said hey this doesn’t work, returned my bad copy for another new one, and so on. Thus, was born what I called “The Vice City Shuffle”
If not many people knew about consoles back in 2007, when did Australia start gaming? And on what?
I used to do similar to afford food when I worked at $🌲. Absolute last second for cash customers, I’d delete an item and take the OG payment. I’d take the spare money out in various change pieces slowly until I built up 1-3$ in change. I’d use that to buy lunch. Monthly I was bringing in less than my rent and made the rest other places. But it wasn’t enough to eat daily.
These days I make in a week more than I made in a month then. I worry a bit but I never worry about eating that day. I even get a whole three meals most days!
Sounds more like you crowd funded $6.50 at a time from lots of people rather than from your company
I stole a $300 hammer drill from a company I worked for. Still use it. They were jerks.
If I understand this correctly, the customers were effectively being overcharged and you stole their money incrementally.
If that is correct, then your employer did not fund the PS3, but the paying customers funded it through repeated petty theft.
It may not sound a great deal, but maybe that $6.50 was a lot to those families. Your pleasure has almost certainly been funded from others who missed out.
Where’s the PS3 today?
This is called embezzling.
Love a scam or possible scamola. This is a good long game well batted.
Strictly speaking, you didn’t steal from the company, you overcharged the customers after applying the code. You stole your PlayStation from dozens of customers.