It’s silly but it’s true. Especially if you’ve got a package, a ladder, etc. Nobody’s going to hassle a dude carrying a ladder because he’s clearly Doing Something Important.
When it’s a regular old apartment building you don’t even need that. You can just wait until someone walks in and just follow them through. Happens all the time. Which is why I make sure to always pull security doors closed behind me. I’d rather not be the cause of a break-in or worse.
Even if you know someone usually belongs there, it can still be dangerous. Example, at a place I used to work someone got fired for stalking. A few days later they came into the workplace and someone else held the door open for them. Luckily the person they were trying to stalk wasn’t there. Idk how that would have turned out if they were 😳
I used to geocache a LOT years ago, don’t do as much now. But it was crazy how much people would ignore whatever weird thing you were doing if you had a high-vis vest, clipboard, and hardhat. I used to joke you could damn-near walk in anywhere and nobody would blink.
Yep, somebody with a vest like that tried to steal my phone through the bus window, took me by surprise since they make it seem like you are employed somewhere.
I once worked in a SCIF and (with one exception in the morning where a security officer could just check your ID card to speed it along) even if there was a large group of people entering every single one needed to close the security door behind them and let the next person use their key. If someone, especially someone you don’t recognize, asked you to hold the door you were supposed to say “no” and inform a security officer.
I used to work in a testing lab that housed a lot of prototypes for other companies so we did the same, didn’t recognize someone we closed the door behind us as we went it.
Fun getting yelled at by strangers for not holding the door, bit at least security was right next to the door to ask who they were.
Guy in highlighter vest:“Hey buddy can you hold the door?”
90% success rate
It’s silly but it’s true. Especially if you’ve got a package, a ladder, etc. Nobody’s going to hassle a dude carrying a ladder because he’s clearly Doing Something Important.
When it’s a regular old apartment building you don’t even need that. You can just wait until someone walks in and just follow them through. Happens all the time. Which is why I make sure to always pull security doors closed behind me. I’d rather not be the cause of a break-in or worse.
Even if you know someone usually belongs there, it can still be dangerous. Example, at a place I used to work someone got fired for stalking. A few days later they came into the workplace and someone else held the door open for them. Luckily the person they were trying to stalk wasn’t there. Idk how that would have turned out if they were 😳
I used to geocache a LOT years ago, don’t do as much now. But it was crazy how much people would ignore whatever weird thing you were doing if you had a high-vis vest, clipboard, and hardhat. I used to joke you could damn-near walk in anywhere and nobody would blink.
I learned that while buying tobacco products while underage.
If you walk in and act like you do this everyday you’re less likely to get carded.
Act like you belong
Yep, somebody with a vest like that tried to steal my phone through the bus window, took me by surprise since they make it seem like you are employed somewhere.
Or buy a pizza bag online.
Why hitman is the most plausible stealth game, even though it has it’s own shenanigans too.
*me, a bald white man dressed in Chinese clothes pretending to be a Chinese gang member*
Nobody suspects a thing…
I once worked in a SCIF and (with one exception in the morning where a security officer could just check your ID card to speed it along) even if there was a large group of people entering every single one needed to close the security door behind them and let the next person use their key. If someone, especially someone you don’t recognize, asked you to hold the door you were supposed to say “no” and inform a security officer.
That’s comforting.
I used to work in a testing lab that housed a lot of prototypes for other companies so we did the same, didn’t recognize someone we closed the door behind us as we went it.
Fun getting yelled at by strangers for not holding the door, bit at least security was right next to the door to ask who they were.