> Lying about a laptop being stolen is black and white. I'm not sure how you are trying to say that is ambiguous.

I've been at startups where there's sometimes late night food served.

I've never been at a startup where there was an epidemic about lying about stolen hardware.

Staying just late enough to order dinner on the company, and theft by the employee of computer hardware plus lying about it, are not in the same category and do not happen with equal frequency. I cannot believe the parent comment presented these as the same, and is being taken seriously.

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appreciatorBus 12 hours ago | parent [-]

Nah the laptop and the dinner are exactly the same, they only differ in timing.

You can steal $2000 by lying about a stolen laptop or lying about working late. The latter method just takes a few months.

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margalabargala 12 hours ago | parent [-]

We're not discussing lying about working late, we're discussing actually working late.

	▲	kelnos 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The person way upthread said: > people started staying just late enough for the food delivery to arrive while scrolling on their phones and then walking out the door with their meal. That doesn't sound like actually working late? (I still agree with you, though, that this isn't the equivalent of stealing a laptop, even if you do it enough to take home $2,000 worth of dinner.)