When I first started HGV driving I worked for an agency, and was sent to a nationwide electric goods store distribution warehouse. The job was to take a load of goods to the store and deliver them. Being green as grass to the job the manager asked me to take some returns back to the distribution depot. This I did and when I got back I explained about the returns and was told that they do not accept returns, I then asked what do I do, and the answer was they did not care but do not bring them back or there will be trouble. A few trips later low and behold there they were - returns... So getting close to the depot I pulled into the layby and promptly took the return and left them there, someone could use them. On the way home looked across and there were the 'returns' still sitting there, turned the car round, loaded them up and dropped them off at the old folks home, one of the items was a 26inch colour tv. A few weeks later off to the docks to pick up a container from Japan along with four other drivers. They were struggling up the hills on the way back, I just flew up them. Got back to the depot, put the trailers on the unloading bay, and got ready to go home. Law arrived and we were questiond about why my trailer/container was empty when opened - all those missing tv's. Later I asked about the loss and was told not to worry as all losses etc were covered by their insurance, so there is your answer, they do not care....
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Avon Cosmetics used to be like that. When I was in sales, the chief engineer there wanted me to demo some products, but to get in you needed an entry pass, which had to be prepared by their HR and approved by Security. Even if you had a pass, the gate guard wouldn't let you in until he'd phoned the engineer, but if the engineer was out on the factory floor he couldn't answer, so you got turned away (no mobiles in those days). Drove past there one day and saw the barrier was open so I sneaked in, found the engineer, did my demo and got an order, then tried to get out... the jobsworth on the gate wouldn't let me out because I hadn't been signed in. Took about an hour of arguing before I could go home.
PeteComment
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When I started there in the mid 1980’s the guarded gate at Porton down was the exact opposite……they just used to let you through without stopping if you held up your pass. No way they could check it in a moving vehicle, they just opened the barrier…..occasionally if you held up something by mistake they’d let you in without checking because it obviously looked right from the outside. This then became a game with us (we were all in our early twenties) to see what you could get in on instead of a pass. The winner used a beer mat…..
I remember one day forgetting my pass. Stopped at the barrier and explained myself, and they let me through the barrier to go to the security office on site and get a temporary one. The security officer nearly had a fit spluttering…..but you shouldn’t be able to get in here you don’t have a pass……:tongue-out3:
All changed now though, proper checks, mobile phone blocked gatehouse, escorted visitors, armed guards and everything…Comment
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Not great being hacked etc.Ive had attempts via Facebook through my miniatures page.One trying to blackmail me with so called incriminating images they had photoshopped and threatening to distribute on the internet.Ive deleted my Facebook page as a result and change passwords a lot.
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Fifteen years ago or so, I think, there was a news item here in the Netherlands about someone who had created a forged public transport card to see how far he could get with it. As I recall, for a full year he took buses, trams and trains with a card that proclaimed him to be Osama bin Laden, including having Osama’s picture on it, without ever being called out about this by drivers, conductors, etc. He then took it a step further and made a pass that said he was (then-)Queen Beatrix, with exactly the same result …Comment
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Here is another.... I re-negotiated my tv/broadband/phone contract a few days ago as they want to increase my monthly payments to £57 pm from £47. So they had sent me a letter out explaining it was all due to the cost of living drone, ,yawnzzzz.... And that if I chose to I could terminate my contract by April 23, but forgetting to add that my contract did in fact end on this date??? So after some negotiation with the child in some far off foreign land I was finally put through to a UK customer services person. Again we went through the dance and agreed that my new 18 month contract would in fact be £38 pm with a £12 rolling credit resulting in a £26 monthly bill.
Here is the crux - two days after, I recieved a call from our hacker friends in Pakistan (check out you tube) and as soon as I explained I was from homeland security the phone went very dead.... So who is selling off our details - Virgin Media I have contacted you before about this, and the last time I said I would go public.Comment
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If I get any dodgy-sounding calls I ask them to state their full name, the company they're representing, and the address and number they're calling from. If I remember I ask them to speak clearly for the recording. That gets rid of them.
Another trick is to agree to speak to them then say there's someone at the door, can they hang on a minute, and leave the phone connected. Pick the phone up a few minutes later and ask them to hang on. The record is about 40 minutes...
PeteComment
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Used to answer the phone with "Good Morning, Bedfordshire police, how may I help you..." Untill one day the person on the other end said "Bedfordshire police - I thought I was Bedfordshire police..." "How can you be, when I am Bedfordshire police..." Then put the phone down....Comment
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