shawlift

The act of stealing an item or items from a custoner to the benefit of your current company. This is common in field service. Usualy the items are of little or no value to the company that lost them

Tech 1

That is a nice set of leads, how did you get the company to pay for them.
Tech 2

I did a shawlift at the company I was at last week. They had dozens of them laying around.

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reverse shawlift

The act where items that you or your company owns is stolen while performing service at their site.

I had to go to the store and get more batteries and pens, because I got reverse shawlifted so much at that one company