In a way clipboard and safety vest can get you to a lot of places, you could probably get away with bossing people around in dark plain clothes equipped with a walkie-talkie making random quotes.
2026-05-04 10:01 UTC
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@DagwoodIII@piefed.social 2026-05-04 11:22
True story. I brought a bright orange rain jacket at a hardware store. Whenever I rode the subway people would come up and ask me directions.
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@daannii@lemmy.world 2026-05-04 16:26
Or doing "maintenance" on flock cameras . Wear face coverings. Maybe a wig. Hat. Don't be stupid. It's a camera.
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@usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 2026-05-04 14:36
The number of times I've been in a hardware store and approached by another costumer thinking I was staff because I was wearing hi viz is staggering.
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@Iconoclast@feddit.uk 2026-05-04 17:24
I live in a very high-trust society, which probably explains it to some degree, but I've yet to find a building I can't get into by just spotting someone who works there and telling them I'm here to fix the plumbing. The best one was when a cleaner let me into the building I was coming to work guard duty at that evening. I was just a kid in civilian clothes and I got right in. I've always told people that if you need a new TV, just put on a high-vis vest, grab a ladder, and unscrew the info display from a mall. Nobody's going to ask what you're doing.
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@atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 2026-05-04 16:01
When I first started my career I briefly worked IT at a hospital before getting into development, It always struck me how I was able to just walk out with machines. I’ve wondered if I could just put on a polo shirt walk into a random office and start walking out with their computers if anybody would stop me.
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@ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 2026-05-04 13:31
Thanks for the groovy film