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I used to be a field technician. It's really amazing how casually the front desks of important institutions would hand over telecom closet/server room keys when I asked. We wore company t-shirts, but that was it.
a high-vis vest only gets you access to anything because not everybody knows that trick, if Vice starts publishing articles about it it's not going to work for much longer.
These posts always remind me of Todd Lappin's Telstar Logistics[1] in which he makes his personal vehicle look "official" and gets away with lots adventures with it. [1] https://telstarlogistics.typepad.com/telstarlogistics/2006/0... [2] https://www.flickr.com/people/telstar/
That said it was my actual job to do this- but I could have been anyone with a pair of bolt cutters!
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a found a tool bag, some parts to waive around, and a long boring explanation (real or otherwise) of why you need to be there also helps - barring that, in some buildings a screwdriver is the only key.
"We're here to adjust the phase variance on the cardinal grammeter of the retro encabulator"
These posts always remind me of Todd Lappin's Telstar Logistics[1] in which he makes his personal vehicle look "official" and gets away with lots adventures with it. [1] https://telstarlogistics.typepad.com/telstarlogistics/2006/0... [2] https://www.flickr.com/people/telstar/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chaser_APEC_pranks
way to ruin it, guys. a high-vis vest only gets you access to anything because not everybody knows that trick, if Vice starts publishing articles about it it's not going to work for much longer.