your coworkers are stealing from you

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager .
You’d like to think that you can trust the people you work with all day – that coworkers who know you by name, hear about your kids, and trade jokes with you before meetings wouldn’t brazenly steal items that clearly belong to you. But in reality – at least judging from my mail – it appears a shockingly high number of petty thieves walk among us.
At Slate today, I wrote about the weird items that go missing at work — from purloined Pyrex dishes to stolen heirlooms — and why office thefts are so common. You can read it here .
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