Steal From Work & Financial Advice

Have you even stolen anything from a job you left? Dangerous Dave talks about a woman who took her chair only to have to return it, so she asked people online what they have taken from work. Plus, giving financial advice to your kids.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
She's uber in the den with dangerous day. You know,
some people love their jobs. I love my job. Others
sit at their desk today visualizing the day they finally quit.
If you're in that second group, do you have your
eye on anything in your office you're going to take
with you. A woman is going viral saying she finally
quit her toxic job and she stole her office chair.
She wheeled it out when she left, jammed it into

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her car. Nobody said anything, She said, in my mind,
I figured that I'd been sitting there taking years of emotional, physical,
and verbal abuse. I was going to take my chair.
She didn't get away with it, though. She got an
email the next week telling her that she needed to
bring the chair back, and she did, and she called
the experience really embarrassing. As a matter of fact, she
videoed the experience. The video went viral, and she asked

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people online what they took on their way out. Sounds
like a lot of people get away with stuff, although
most of them are a little less obvious than an
office chair. One of the people said they took two
Japanese lives. They worked in a kitchen. Also, somebody suggested
not waiting until you actually quit. They say they take
a little every week. Someone took an overhead projector from

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a theater room. Someone said they worked at a museum,
and before they left, they printed themselves an annual pass
with an extended expiration and entitled them to free entry
and twenty five percent off at the gift shop. Somebody
took tools. Somebody else took a calculator. Somebody replied that
they worked at a coffee shop, and they took the
heavy metal chalkboard that they used to write their quotes on.
Somebody joked they got away with their self esteem. And

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one person said they quit their job to take another
job and took two employees with them. What they said
was the most impactful theft deeper in the two well
do you give your kids all sorts of advice? Do
you ever give them financial advice? Do they listen? Parents,
including people with adult children, say their kids listened to
their financial advice about fifty four percent of the time,

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just barely half of the time. Not following all of
your parents advice might be a good call, though most
admitted they're not too confident with the advice they give.
The average parent thinks they give good advice when it
comes to budgeting and saving money, but only forty one
percent felt confident about talking about credit cards and thirty
two percent said the same about managing debt, financing a
car twenty nine percent, investing twenty one percent, and advice

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on retirement plans at sixteen percent. So do you give advice?
I do. I've given my kids financial advice. Whether they
took it or not, I'm not quite sure. I also
tell them, you know, pay your bills first, pay yourself second.
Good credit is very important. I wish I'd learn that
at an early age. To me. They came for another
episode of Deeper in the Den with Dangerous Dave right

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