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A couple years ago one of the devs I work with came in to the office very early for some reason and discovered a man sleeping in one of the conference rooms. Af
by whirlingdervish 5y ago
A couple years ago one of the devs I work with came in to the office very early for some reason and discovered a man sleeping in one of the conference rooms. After the fact we discovered that an emergency exit door wasn’t locking properly.
He didn’t take anything even though he could have easily made off with tens of thousands of dollars of electronics. He just needed somewhere to sleep.
- stevezsa8 5y agoYour office got off lucky. We had a guy walk into our office behind employees. No one challenged the trespasser... he walked off with a stack of laptops.
- Scarblac 5y agoAs a teenager I worked in a large logistics center for supermarkets. Usually we would fill trucks that brought the supplies to the supermarkets, but rarely they had ran out of something small and would come to us with a van or so. So one day two guys drive up with a van, park it at a loading dock, go into the warehouse and start loading the van with coffee. They even got help from some workers. Turns out they weren't related to any customers at all, they just stole a van full of coffee. Which wouldn't be worth a story... But two weeks later, the same guys did the exact same thing again, at the same logistics center. Successfully, again. That takes some nerve.
- AussieWog93 5y ago>So one day two guys drive up with a van, park it at a loading dock, go into the warehouse and start loading the van with coffee. They even got help from some workers. Reminds me of that scene from Trailer Park Boys https://youtu.be/8d-bM-Whsmk https://youtu.be/8d-bM-Whsmk
- jacquesm 5y agoA story from the RAI congress center in Amsterdam has it that someone purposefully scratched a 911 on the Porsche display, cue a car transporter that shows up the next morning with a big logo on the side that gets help from the staff to remove the 'damaged 911' so that it can be replaced with another. They never found either the car or the guys. This was before CCTV was common, but still, a couple of hundred people must have seen the whole thing and absolutely nobody thought anything strange was going on.
- User23 5y agoReminds me of a gang I heard about a couple decades ago that would just roll up in a moving van to a nice suburban house in a neighborhood where nobody really talked to each other and just empty the place.
- WarOnPrivacy 5y ago> Your office got off lucky. I disagree. Sleeper guy wanted to crash & didn't want their hardware. There wasn't meaningful risk. I think we make the mistake that perceiving risk makes it real. It's reality that determines our actual risk tho.
- tdeck 5y agoThey got lucky in the sense that their exit door was unlocked, and anyone (not just the sleeper guy) could have discovered it.
- WarOnPrivacy 5y agoThis is reasonable.
- anm89 5y agoright, thats why they were lucky
- nsxwolf 5y agoDid you ask the women in your office how they felt about that incident?
- petre 5y agoWe had a drunk homeless woman sleeping in the ladies room at our office, during work hours. After that event we got a faulty intercom which creates countless problems with the delivery guys, but also a lot less interruptions from random people doing fundraising for random causes.
- smoldesu 5y agoAre you not insured for that kinda stuff? As long as you don't own the company, that seems like a pretty negligible situation to be in.
- SkipperCat 5y agoSadly that person could be charged with a crime instead of being recognized as a person in need. We should be viewing these situations as a cry for help instead of a criminal activity. This is what I hoped the "Defund the Police" movement was targeting. Sadly that phrase had good intentions but pretty bad optics.
- WarOnPrivacy 5y ago> We should be viewing these situations as a cry for help instead of a criminal activity. You're right. When we uphold a law for the law's sake, we've lost our way.
- vegetablepotpie 5y agoRight, but laws enforced selectively based on feelings is its own form of tyranny.
- WarOnPrivacy 5y agoIt can be but usually isn't. The value of a local, penalty-backed law is in it's ability to guide bulk behavior. These laws imply a bargain we make with our governments, that enforcement will be limited to the stated objective. Reducing traffic speeds by citing a few speeders - this upholds that bargain. Citing every possible speeder while those fines fatten the police budget is a gross perversion.
- baud147258 5y agoMaybe my own opinion is coloured by the fact that I live in France, where speeding cameras are very common and seem effective in reducing speeding, but fining every speeder with automatic cameras seems a better solution than citing speeders at random
- petre 5y agoThe gilets jaunes felt quite differently about the speed cameras. What I found really effective were traffic lights with speed meters that would turn red for five seconds if you were over the limit. No cameras, no fines, no police.
- pengaru 5y agoDid your employer offer him a job as night security guard? It appears he really badly wanted the position...
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- bloodguard 5y agoWe had an AC tech ask us if we knew someone was living on our roof. Turns out an coworker's GF kicked him out of his house* and he was living up there. Tent, free wifi, showers next to the bike room, full kitchen and big 80 inch TVs down in the conference rooms. He was livin' the life. He said he usually took down the tent and hid everything every morning but just got complacent. *Yes. His house. She told the cops she felt in danger. Cops told him he had to stay somewhere else and go through the eviction process. Mad world.
- WarOnPrivacy 5y ago> Yes. His house. She told the cops she felt in danger. Cops told him he had to stay somewhere else and go through the eviction process. Mad world. The pendulum needed to swing toward protecting women by default. As these things happen, it may have swung to a point where nuance needs to be applied. Your example seems fairly complex. I couldn't opine on it w/o knowing the details of the complaint. I can offer a different example. My ex's mental illness sometimes required me to take a stronger hand in her life, than would be benign otherwise. One time, she was in a delusional state. She stole my van and left the area. I wasn't able to report it stolen because she was my wife. The police were protecting her from the possibility that I was lying and using the police to harass her. A stranger found her in the middle of the night, hundreds of miles away, in a remote area wrapped only in a towel - obviously not herself. I directed the guy to call the police because he could do that. Local cops delivered her to a facility where she was stabilized. What I would change is that I would have had tightly limited status as her caregiver. I'd want my wife and I to be regularly evaluated by a female mental health professional, who had training to detect manipulative spouses. In cases where my wife might be in distress, police would defer to me. Meanwhile the details would be immediately forwarded to the MH pro overseeing my spouse, who'd have authority to intervene, if she saw an issue.
- nsxwolf 5y agoHe also might have attacked or raped someone. That is not a safe situation. It’s not just about property.
- uberduper 5y agoThat's a bit of a leap, isn't it? Couldn't you say the same thing about every person you meet?
- symlinkk 5y agoNot every person you meet is on drugs and has nothing to lose
- oAlbe 5y agoWait, how do you go from "is sleeping in the conference room without taking anything" to "is on drugs and got nothing to lose"? Like, WTF? Life happens to be hard at times for some people. For certain people, many people, it is very hard very often. That doesn't mean they got nothing to lose.
- ModernMech 5y ago90% of victims of rape and sexual assault know their attacker. The prototypical rapist is not a disheveled homeless man attacking you in the middle of the night. Rather, he is your boss, your friend, your relative, your date. If you find yourself warning people of rape and assault when talking about the homeless, think hard about why that is. Because going by the numbers, it’s the housed who you should be afraid of when it comes to rape and sexual assault, not the homeless.
- mbrodersen 5y agoI am surprised you were downvoted. What you are saying is 100% correct. Most assaults/rapes/… are committed by people you know. Not strangers.