# Friend’s laptop was stolen and I’m more upset then him. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 22, 2006, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friend-s-laptop-was-stolen-and-i-m-more-upset-then-him/357767 "2006-05-22T15:59:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friend-s-laptop-was-stolen-and-i-m-more-upset-then-him/357767/21 "2006-05-23T05:49:15Z")
> [@Anne Neville](#): > > The company might also have some reporting requirements if there might have been sensitive information (social security numbers, medical records, or other confidential information) on the laptop. > > I agree with you- trying to cover up having the laptop stolen is likely to make a bad situation several orders of magnitude worse. My company had a laptop with employee info walk out a door. It cost the company a metric buttload of dollars in paying for credit watch services for every employee for a year. :eek: Tell your friend about Murphy’s law of thermodynamics. Things get worse under pressure. Come clean now. Shit happens, they will understand. They won’t understand trying to palm off a personal laptop as company property. ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friend-s-laptop-was-stolen-and-i-m-more-upset-then-him/357767/22 "2006-05-23T06:12:18Z")
> [@Rick](#): > > My company had a laptop with employee info walk out a door. It cost the company a metric buttload of dollars in paying for credit watch services for every employee for a year. :eek: It’s the law in California- if a company that does business in California loses people’s personal information, they have to notify the people who were affected. I don’t think the people who enforce that law (or similar laws elsewhere) would be very understanding of your friend’s trying to cover up the theft of a laptop. ---
**Author:** ![tim314](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim314/32/3468_2.png) [@tim314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tim314)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friend-s-laptop-was-stolen-and-i-m-more-upset-then-him/357767/23 "2006-05-23T06:40:14Z")
> [@tim 9987](#): > > Friend’s laptop was stolen and I’m more upset then him. > > My friend had a Dell laptop that his work gave him for his job. On Friday he had a party and a whole bunch of people came over. One of them was this guy, we’ll call him frank. Frank is a loser. He’s taken small things before and when he’s caught red handed he plays it off as it’s not a big deal and that he was just borrowing it, but that’s only when he’s caught. My opinion is that he’s a total kleptomaniac. I don’t know why my friend keeps hanging out with him. The only thing he has going for him is that he’s funny and good looking enough that the girls like him. Any way, I’m positive that this is the guy that stole my friend’s laptop. But because there were other people at the party, my friend doesn’t even want to confront frank about it. What my friend doesn’t seem to grasp is that IT’S NOT HIS LAPTOP TO LOSE! I told him that he might loose his job when they find out that it was stolen. He’s worried about that but now he considering buying a new laptop to replace the one from his job and hopefully get away with it. I told him that’s ridicules! He’s just nonchalant about the whole thing. FUCK YOU FRANK! YOU THINK YOU CAN TAKE WHAT EVER YOU WANT AND NO ONE’S GOING TO GET HURT! I wish I could kick down his door and beat him over the head with said laptop. :mad: Are you me from 9673 days into the future? What can I look forward to in the next 26.5 years? That’s a shame about your friend’s laptop. I’m still pissed that my fiancee’s friend’s boyfriend stole someone’s cell phone, but I feel like I’m a little too far removed to confront him about it. (I’ve only met the guy a couple of times. But I’ve heard enough about his dishonest activities to conclude that he’s a real grade-A asshole.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friend-s-laptop-was-stolen-and-i-m-more-upset-then-him/357767.md?page=1)