Re: From the Seen That Department of Obvious Idiocy ...
Our Workshop Foreman had several large racks of raw materials, such as steel bar stock, threaded rod, etc., at the back of his workshop area. We lesser mortals, who had to actually manufacture prototypes and similar research equipment, would often have to sneak in when he wasn't about to purloin said raw materials because if you asked him, he would always refuse to part with it. His reasoning was that, if he let us have the stock, there wouldn't be any left for him to give to us, would there?