History Main / StealingFromTheTill

** In "Happy Families", one suspect is the VictimOfTheWeek's BeleagueredAssistant, who has been commuting fraud by charging extravagant purchases to his boss's corporate credit card, knowing that his boss never checks the statements. However, an insurance company check about why a purchased item was not showing up on the policy threatens to expose him, thereby giving him a motive for murder.

A subtrope of WhiteCollarCrime and InsideJob. Compare CompanyCreditCardAbuse, StealingFromTheHotel, TheHelpHelpingThemselves, and FakeCharity. [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant Not to be confused with]] stealing something from [[Music/{{Rammstein}} Till Lindemann]].

* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', [[TheDragon Arl Rendon Howe]] is helping himself to silver from the royal treasury (seemingly uncaring of the fact that Ferelden's army is desperately underfunded and trying to fight a CivilWar with their own people, one triggered primarily by his and Loghain's brutality and incompetence, while simultaneously trying to fight off the [[AlwaysChaoticEvil darkspawn horde]] moving up from the south. One of the Warden's side missions involves swiping said silver from a warehouse in Denerim before Howe can ship it to his private estate.

* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': In "Happy Families", one suspect is the VictimOfTheWeek's BeleagueredAssistant, who has been commiting fraud by charging extravagant purchases to his boss's corporate credit card, knowing that his boss never checks the statements. However, an insurance company check about why a purchased item was not showing up on the policy threatens to expose him, thereby giving him a motive for murder.

* In ''Film/WhisperinGSmith', Murray Sinclair, the head of the wrecking crew, is fired from the railroad for helping himself to thousands of dollars worth of cargo from wrecked trains.

A subtrope of WhiteCollarCrime and InsideJob. Compare CompanyCreditCardAbuse, StealingFromTheHotel and FakeCharity. [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant Not to be confused with]] stealing something from [[Music/{{Rammstein}} Till Lindemann]].

[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* ''Manga/HenkyouNoRoukishiBardLoen'': [[spoiler:King Windellan has been sending a lot of allowance money to Kaldus Coendera, to support Aidra Tersia who is a mother of his child, but nobody is allowed to know Kaldus isn't the father. Kaldus]] uses all that money for his own political gain. [[spoiler:And Windellan doesn't know his lover has passed away some time ago.]]

* In ''{{ComicBook/Asterix}} in Helvetia'', Gaul's governor has been skimming off the taxes the province sends to Rome. To illustrate the depths of his embezzling, when the taxmaster arrives, the governor gives him a lapful of gold, chucks most of the money in his private coffer, and throws a couple of coins into a small moneybox for Rome. This is what forces Rome to send an inquisitor to check the accounts, so the governor proceeds to poison the inquisitor. The poisoned man manages to call for Getafix, who sends Asterix and Obelix to Helvetia to collect an edelweiss for the antidote. It turns out Helvetia's governor is just as corrupt as Gaul's.
* While it's usually not portrayed as a bad thing when he does it, ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' spends a lot of the Wayne Enterprises budget on weird bat-themed gadgets, and sometimes a ''space station''. While Wayne Enterprises is referred to as "his" company, it's also generally portrayed with a board, occasionally at risk of a takeover, and other things that suggest that like most large companies it's a publicly traded corporation, or at least has multiple shareholders, and Bruce Wayne is simply the majority shareholder. Consequently Batman has embezzled, or caused Lucius Fox to embezzle on his behalf, millions of dollars.

* Thug Boy in ''Comicbook/{{Empowered}}'' used to make a living working as a [[ObfuscatingStupidity Dumb]] {{Mook}} for various supervillains, stealing their expensive gadgets and ebaying them after the villains got caught. 'Til they steal from the wrong guy...

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* Annie gets fired from a job in ''Webcomic/DarthsAndDroids'' partly for doing this.

* In ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou'', the Creeper ultimately turns out to be a bank owner that's been embezzling money from his bank and had been trying to take away evidence that incriminates him.

-->'''959.'' Never "borrow" so much as a pencil from your workplace.

* Happens a few times on the street with the dealers in ''Series/TheWire'', and also the dockworkers in the second season often divert product to their own benefit.

--''>Make you sick, make you ill\\

** The ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}} book ''Build a Better Life By Stealing Office Supplies.''

* In Pom Pom's Eleven, the main plot point is Homestar Runner and his friends getting back at Homeschool Winner for embezzling money from them. The reason that he did this was because he grew tired of Homestar Runner being in charge of the website despite being less intelligent than he was.
* In ''FanFic/BequeathedFromPaleEstates'', the Westerlands' Miner's Guild features the Winter Fund, a crowdfunding protocol in which every member, highborn or lowborn, donates a small part of their earnings to prepare for purchases to be made on long and hard winters, buying lumber and furs from the North and food from the Reach and Essos. The fact Tywin hasn't called up the Guild to begin arrangements on the disbursement of the Fund in the face of the looming winter worries everybody in the Westerlands. [[spoiler:This is because Tywin's been skimming off the fund to pay for Cersei's extravagant lifestyle and to prop up Robert's failing reign. He's fully aware of the sheer folly of what he's doing, especially as not only per ancient treaty is the Guild legally allowed to ''execute'' him for daring to touch the Fund, ''the Guild represents the core of his army''. He resorts to having Gregor Clegane murder the Master of Coin - one of his own bannermen - to make sure his fortune will be inherited by one of his cousins, allowing him to replenish the funds he stole.]]

--> '''Taylor:''' And Janice Templeton keeps trying to push the idea of issuing physical checks instead of handing out debit cards so she can arrange for a certain number to be 'lost'. I'll deal with it.

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* ''Film/{{XX}}'': In "The Birthday Barty", Clara is helping herself to her employers' liquor.