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Originally Posted by Cameron Swift
The fact that she's a contractor might make the situation different, no? If someone came in to our office to fix our lights and someone stole his ladder, wouldn't the onus be on the company to cover that loss rather than "well, you shouldn't have left it out in the open"?
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If your office has hundreds of kids running around then yes it's comparable...
A contractor getting his ladder stolen is his own fault and I say this as a contractor. We take risks all the time with leaving our tools in places we know has a chance of it being stolen. If I leave my tools over night, that's because I don't want to go through the hassle of taking them with me and bringing them back the next day to a job I'm going back to. I assumed that risk. If I leave my ladder in your office because I'm working in the next office over, I also assume that risk, even though It's a very small risk you still think about it when leaving tools anywhere.