When you’re leaving a job, whether that’s in a windowless room within a soulless skyscraper or the Oval Office, you’re supposed to take whatever isn’t nailed down. You have some time to do this. From the moment you know you are going elsewhere, until handing security your ID badge, it’s basically a free-for-all.
Office supplies are a given. Reams of paper – less lucrative in the hyper-digital age. But cords, power strips, and the miscellaneous dongle land into a grab bag of handy items.
Furniture is a little trickier. First off, you need wide hallways and a freight elevator. That’s not even counting the box truck parked out front, waiting for a bigger and bigger load.
A nice memento would be a wall-mounted defibrillator or an emergency hatchet kept under glass. That takes some work and watch out for the sprinklers. What you want is time. Time to grab a bolt cutter, drill, and any other tools that help liberating items. Because that’s what this is about: freedom. If people don’t belong on leashes or nailed to things (just ask Jesus) why would a beautiful, teak mid-century modern desk?
This is why you put in two weeks notice. That’s how much time it takes to clean out the place. That said, there’s nothing wrong with pilfering when you start a job, it’ll make any work on the backend significantly easier.
It’s why people ask if you “nailed that job interview?” Personally, I prefer screwing a job interview, since those are easier to remove. But hey, different tools for different tools.
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