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Or a ladder. Nobody stops a pair of people dressed like laborers carrying a ladder.
by aftbit 3y ago
Or a ladder. Nobody stops a pair of people dressed like laborers carrying a ladder.
- SoftTalker 3y agoOr just a high-vis vest, a hardhat, and a toolbox or belt.
- Freak_NL 3y agoSecurity minded types might still stop you, especially since these are the kind of well-known scenarios that might get used in security training. You want invisible? Be female, 40+, short but otherwise average build, any skin colour but white, black hair, generic cleaning staff outfit, and one of those carts with mops and buckets. Now you're invisible (racist, classist, and misogynistic biases exist, might as well use them). (As a 2m tall person I can't blend in anywhere.)
- withinboredom 3y agoOr just be very pregnant while carrying boxes, anybody will open the door for you. Pro-tip: prothesis pregnant belly full of tools.
- rthomas6 3y agoIf you smoke a few Marlboros in a cleaning staff outfit, get some Walmart shoes, get a $30 phone, and get a mop and bucket, I feel like it might work pretty well.
- dumpsterdiver 3y agoI don't think it's racist, classist, or misogynistic to make an observation. You yourself made this observation, and I didn't detect the slightest hint of racism or misogyny from your report even though it described a very specific marginalized group. On the contrary, to your point, the reason they are "invisible" is because we are used to seeing exactly what you describe.
- neilv 3y agoWhen I sold my Flipper Zero recently, the buyer showed up wearing business casual, with a button-down shirt tastefully embroidered with the name of a company involved in commercial real estate. I didn't ask whether they actually worked for that company, or the outfit was part of their pen-testing toolkit.
- freeopinion 3y agoA few years back a town lost several miles of copper cable installed under main street. A work truck pulled up in the middle of the street, coned off the area, opened a lid, hooked up a spooler and started yanking. They spooled up a truckload of copper, gathered their cones, and drove off. They were seen by hundreds of witnesses in the middle of the day, but nobody suspected anything.