Ah fuck… How can I help you, ma’am?
I’ve always wanted a door to nothing in particular with a triple deadbolt eye scan and pinpad access but its all for show just so people wonder what’s in there and really you just tap a card to unlock it all.
Working in hotels has showed me just how unsecure hotels are. There is virtually no security in a lot of places.
Have you ever been in a lift and noticed the locked panels? Those are meant for fire fighters. You can (legally) get a hold of a key on ebay and make the lift do a backflip if you really wanted to.
Colleges too. Ever wanted to hide behind the projector screen of a 300 seat lecture hall? None of the doors are locked. Found an old rotary telephone and a real film reel projector back there.
Had some wonderful desk chair races around the professor offices floor in one building at nearly midnight.
The tough part is when you no longer have that access after you’re used to it when you get a new job.
No! Don’t call security! I swear I worked here a decade ago, I’m just absentminded.
I work in construction and currently work on the restructuration of an active airport, with various worksite around the airport. I have a very cool badge that clearly states that I can access almost every place. Regularly, when I’m in a part of the airport that is in activity, I have people asking me directions, and I’m like : “No, I don’t know where gate 15 is, but I can tell you everything about the beam above your head if it helps…”
Be the IT guy. Have all door access, 24/7. Shit is 100% a curse.
Electrican here, it’s even worse. Fuck lightbulbs and florescent tubes, you don’t need me to change those.
I had one gig where I had more access to the building than the building’s owner and company ceo.
But the real sense of power came the day I realized I could trap anyone in the company into a concrete stairwell with locked steel doors by revoking keycard access while they were between floors. I had a emergency lever/opener added to the ground floor door - I don’t know how that got past fire inspection in the first place.
Yeah and the knowledge that everything behind those doors is unfinished garbage and the cool looking parts are all the ones the public gets to see.
Hmm, I’ve always found the exposed bits of machinery and the genuine work areas to be a lot more interesting than the safety-padded candy-coated consumer-facing side of things.
I remember the first time I was an authorized personnel only
Knowing the code to staff only areas gives me a feeling of power. Even though there’s nothing back there but a filthy office, stock room, and canteen.
I worked at a five star hotel before. It was awesome going from the lavish, marble surroundings and air conditioning , through one set of doors into the kitchen, down the stairs and out to the barren concrete walls and flickering lights of the staff area and infrastructure parts of the hotel.
Now you know how servants in manyier houses felt like
“Let me check if we have that in the back for you.”
-disappears on break for 2 hours-
fucking hell. I had to read that like 3 times to understand it. A period or comma now and again never hurt anyone.
May I interest you in a Flipper Zero ? 😉
I’ve been interested for a while but it seems more like a toy than a tool, no? Do you get much use out of it?
Oh i don’t have one 😆 but it sure seems useful to open some doors you’re not supposed to !
It is the fancy toy version though. There are cheaper devices that do some of the same things, although I’m not sure I’ve seen anything else with all the features yet.
