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2010/02/13 05:38:45
Subject: Former Games Workshop store manager charged with theft
chaplaingrabthar wrote:So, assuming it was product, what could he take to hit 8K? Forgeworld stuff?
GW dont hold FW stuff though , unless they were ordered specifically ( which is incredible easy to be caught since people
are waiting and expecting it )
I want to know what he took too!
Im guessing last year it was goldswords , this year it was goldvermins.
It would be funny if he was busted in February for costigors , but that would offset too much for GW
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Kanluwen wrote:No reason is good enough to break the law.
Imagine your wife is terminally ill. She can be saved by a new medicine invented by a doctor in your town.
The medicine costs $1,000 but you only have $500. You offer the doctor this much but he refuses to sell. You know that the ingredients needed to make the medicine cost $100.
I agree with many of the points put into this debate I remember a while back when a manager of one Games Workshop I frequented stole and actively "gave away" stock to regulars he was promptly fired and no legal action taken.
How do I know this?? because 5 months down the line he was back in the EXACT store he stole from acting as if gak happened.
Dont ask me why GW decided to not prosecute in this instance... Maybe its because it was the ninties and legislation then was a lot more leinient may make sense as nowadays theft and bad book keeping are seen as a massive liability to companies and when the revenue man comes and sniffs around everything has to be spanky clean.
I also remember a store I worked for a while back the manager before the one that I had was always up to negative gak like stealing,palming over stock off smoking weed and having sex in the toilets but yet again when he was found out he was ushered out of the back door and not prosecuted this was 2003-2004 maybe different strokes i suppose (sorry about the pun dear god so sorry).
GW in my memories as it serves always had overstock and poorly managed stock take and replenishment I remember until recently that they would leave stock all over the shop unstocked blisters and army sets I always remembered thinking "Its a matter of time before something goes for a unpaid walk".
Newport store had a ruptured sewer or something flooded the stockroom they shifted tons of old Empire army sets if memory serves..........So really doesnt surprise me theres a culture there of second hand palming and stealing.
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They dont call me Garybrandy for nothing!
how is it off topic? we hardly know what the topic even is!
2010/02/13 09:58:47
Subject: Former Games Workshop store manager charged with theft
Kanluwen wrote:No reason is good enough to break the law.
I can't tell if you are serious or not (internet) but this is so wrong. There is always a good enough reason.
A bomb is sitting in a power station. Trespassing is illegal. If you press a button on it, it disarms. If you don't, millions die. Do you stick to "No reason is good enough to break the law."
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2010/02/13 10:04:55
Subject: Former Games Workshop store manager charged with theft
Stealing is just wrong period. I'm sure you'd be hollering like holy hell if someone robbed you blind then I could come along and say "Oh I'm sure they had their reasons. Get over it already."
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@ ph34r: whilst there may be a good enough reason for that, stealing little plastic miniatures is just pathetic and there is no reason good enough for what he did.
@ ph34r: whilst there may be a good enough reason for that, stealing little plastic miniatures is just pathetic and there is no reason good enough for what he did.
I also lol'd heheheh double shades.
Yea plastic men+stealing do not = cool so yea kids dont do it!
They dont call me Garybrandy for nothing!
how is it off topic? we hardly know what the topic even is!
2010/02/13 10:31:50
Subject: Re:Former Games Workshop store manager charged with theft
twistinthunder wrote:@ ph34r: whilst there may be a good enough reason for that, stealing little plastic miniatures is just pathetic and there is no reason good enough for what he did.
I don't disagree that stealing stuff is almost always bad, I just disagree with your blanket statement.
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2010/02/13 10:50:11
Subject: Former Games Workshop store manager charged with theft
Awesome CSI toon. I think we post on these random threads because it gets into discussions beyond just the actual hobby. Now I'm not justifying his actions, but any business that lowballs employee pay as much as possible is going to get a lot of people who don't want to be there. Retail is a pretty thankless and sometimes degrading way to make a living. If you are or fell like you are treated like gak than its easy to rationalize almost anything. Even... *gasp* killing a man! "What would you do for a klondike bar?!"
Now seperate from that is my own opinion. I don't care if stealing is morally wrong. If I knew I could get away with it I would do it to a large business. Not where I work though. You shouldn't gak where you eat. Often the people with the most power or authority break the law regularly and often much worse things than stealing. I come from a cop family and the stuff some of them get up to is nuts and its a well paying job compared to retail. Granted someone is eventually hurt by theft, but in this world I look out for me and mine. I would also do anything I think I have to do to keep my family safe. If that makes me a bad person than so be it. If religion is right then I'll eventually pay for it. Pretty much all laws (going back thousands of years) have been written by the strongest or wealthiest and if not breaking them they have always bent and manipulated them for their own gain.
2010/02/13 14:03:30
Subject: Re:Former Games Workshop store manager charged with theft
stealing little plastic miniatures is just pathetic and there is no reason good enough for what he did.
Exactly, someone tell me how stealing miniatures even compares to disarming a bomb or saving your dying wife.
Unless you're counting on selling all of that gak on eBay to get the rest of the cash for the cure, but still, "everyone has their reasons". If someone robs your home they were probably just really desperate for money, maybe their children are starving? Who are you then to call them out on their wrong-doing?
I don't care what anyone's reasons are, personally. Stealing is wrong. Doubly so if someone steals from me, because...well, I'm me, and I could give a gak about you.
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2010/02/13 14:19:03
Subject: Re:Former Games Workshop store manager charged with theft
stealing little plastic miniatures is just pathetic and there is no reason good enough for what he did.
Exactly, someone tell me how stealing miniatures even compares to disarming a bomb or saving your dying wife.
Unless you're counting on selling all of that gak on eBay to get the rest of the cash for the cure, but still, "everyone has their reasons". If someone robs your home they were probably just really desperate for money, maybe their children are starving? Who are you then to call them out on their wrong-doing?
I don't care what anyone's reasons are, personally. Stealing is wrong. Doubly so if someone steals from me, because...well, I'm me, and I could give a gak about you.
Oh Sidstyler we're not bringing up that age old myth of poverty in the first world driving us to acts of heinous miniature theft are we?
They dont call me Garybrandy for nothing!
how is it off topic? we hardly know what the topic even is!
2010/02/13 14:50:39
Subject: Former Games Workshop store manager charged with theft
The guy is pathetic. If someone can get away with stealing because he was 'in desperate need of money', then the next guy will get away with murder because he just really wanted to. It was just like the gunman who prayed with the couple he just robbed before taking their car as his get-away vehicle.
2010/02/13 16:05:41
Subject: Re:Former Games Workshop store manager charged with theft
Kind of dumb to come out in the public stating you will steal from large corporations. I am curious, have you stolen in the past and if so from whom and what did you steal?
I just read about a senior citizen who stated as a justification to robbing three banks that his nest egg was depleted. He will be spending several years in jail as a result of the robberies so that will keep a roof over his head and food to eat. Maybe they have some toy soldiers there as well to play mandollies if he gets bored.
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WarsmithDave wrote:Awesome CSI toon. I think we post on these random threads because it gets into discussions beyond just the actual hobby. Now I'm not justifying his actions, but any business that lowballs employee pay as much as possible is going to get a lot of people who don't want to be there. Retail is a pretty thankless and sometimes degrading way to make a living. If you are or fell like you are treated like gak than its easy to rationalize almost anything. Even... *gasp* killing a man! "What would you do for a klondike bar?!"
Now seperate from that is my own opinion. I don't care if stealing is morally wrong. If I knew I could get away with it I would do it to a large business. Not where I work though. You shouldn't gak where you eat. Often the people with the most power or authority break the law regularly and often much worse things than stealing. I come from a cop family and the stuff some of them get up to is nuts and its a well paying job compared to retail. Granted someone is eventually hurt by theft, but in this world I look out for me and mine. I would also do anything I think I have to do to keep my family safe. If that makes me a bad person than so be it. If religion is right then I'll eventually pay for it. Pretty much all laws (going back thousands of years) have been written by the strongest or wealthiest and if not breaking them they have always bent and manipulated them for their own gain.
ALL HAIL SANGUINIUS! No one can beat my Wu Tang style!
Nice one Ageof!
surely H would say, "What have we here?" as he does that thing with his shades!
This guy has been arrested but that does NOT automatically make him guilty. Until the guy admits to committing the offence or it is proven in court, he is assumed to be innocent.
But no worries, Horatio will sort it and then with hand on hips, his jacket pushed back, looks up and turns head left.
My money is on it being an old friend of Warwick's who is implicated in drug smuggling via assembled Rhinos.
The CSI team blew the whole thing open when they found the body of a high class hooker wearing nought but a red and white striped footie shirt while Prokofiev blasted out of the Hi-Fi speakers.
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2010/02/13 16:29:10
Subject: Re:Former Games Workshop store manager charged with theft
Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:
The CSI team blew the whole thing open when they found the body of a high class hooker wearing nought but a red and white striped footie shirt while Prokofiev blasted out of the Hi-Fi speakers.
Someone been googling Mackems?
It's a shame it didn't happen in Newcastle, then the music could have been provided by any number of local boys like Sting or maybe Dire Straits.
2010/02/13 16:42:18
Subject: Former Games Workshop store manager charged with theft
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