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andreas wrote: Mon Nov 27, 2017 5:44 pm
Dandock wrote: Mon Nov 27, 2017 5:38 pm This could help... ;)

A man in Australia was sacked after he relied on a 180-year-old scientific discovery to help prevent his colleagues discovering his whereabouts while he played golf during work hours.
Tom Colella, a 60-year-old  electrician in Perth, lost his job after an anonymous letter to his firm claimed that he left work to play golf at least 140 times over the last two years.
Australia’s Fair Work Commission, a workplace tribunal, heard that Mr Colella blocked his whereabouts by storing his personal digital assistant, a phone-like device that has a GPS inside inside, in an empty foil packet of Twisties, a puffy cheese-based snack that is popular in Australia.
The tribunal found that the packet was deliberately used to operate  as an elaborate “Faraday cage” - an enclosure which can block electromagnetic fields - and prevented his employer knowing his location.

When I first started work, in the European headquarters of a major motor manufacturer, one of my colleagues spent most afternoons "entertaining" a young housewife who lived in a block of flats nearby. This was before the days of mobile phones. Every time he went off to visit her, he left his jacket on the back of his chair. People would answer his phone and say "...Can I get him to call you back? He can't be far away as his jacket's here..."
Way back in early 70s I'd just left art college and was working for the display department of NW Gas. Our base was about 10 mins from the local offices and my boss's boss. My boss, Des, was having an affair and used to go off during the day. When he went out he would put an opened up paper clip around each button of his phone so that the handset would appear to be on the cradle when, in actual fact, it was resting on the paper clips and not depressing the buttons. With it so far?
His boss would phone him and get an engaged tone. He'd phone again with the same result. Eventually he'd get impatient, jump in his car and drive down to our place - only to find that Des's phone was on the cradle so assumed Des had just slipped out whilst he'd been in transit! Worked every time and Des never ever got caught - except by us who would occasionally see his car parked up on the moors!
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These stories made me smile. At least they didn't get caught and used some Ingenuity to get away with it. Unlike a senior manager of a very well known US Asset Manager I worked for in the 90s. His inFidelity at their Luxembourg office was caught on the first ever security camera installed in the car park of the office there. It must have been more comfy in his Jag than on the Moors
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Dandock wrote: Mon Nov 27, 2017 5:38 pm This could help... ;)

A man in Australia was sacked after he relied on a 180-year-old scientific discovery to help prevent his colleagues discovering his whereabouts while he played golf during work hours.
Tom Colella, a 60-year-old  electrician in Perth, lost his job after an anonymous letter to his firm claimed that he left work to play golf at least 140 times over the last two years.
Australia’s Fair Work Commission, a workplace tribunal, heard that Mr Colella blocked his whereabouts by storing his personal digital assistant, a phone-like device that has a GPS inside inside, in an empty foil packet of Twisties, a puffy cheese-based snack that is popular in Australia.
The tribunal found that the packet was deliberately used to operate  as an elaborate “Faraday cage” - an enclosure which can block electromagnetic fields - and prevented his employer knowing his location.
:lol: Genius! :lol:
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Funny how easy it is to get sidetracked with stories of s*x!

Anyway, here's a follow up to the OP:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england ... rime-theft
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Whilst still being sidetracked.

A colleague of mine had to take the Wife of a deceased tenant who leased a lock up garage to view the contents only to find the garage carpeted, decorated and complete with a fully made up bed.

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Col Lamb wrote: Tue Nov 28, 2017 9:24 am Whilst still being sidetracked.

A colleague of mine had to take the Wife of a deceased tenant who leased a lock up garage to view the contents only to find the garage carpeted, decorated and complete with a fully made up bed.

:o
How do you get out of that one? :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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happy days wrote: Tue Nov 28, 2017 10:45 am
Col Lamb wrote: Tue Nov 28, 2017 9:24 am Whilst still being sidetracked.

A colleague of mine had to take the Wife of a deceased tenant who leased a lock up garage to view the contents only to find the garage carpeted, decorated and complete with a fully made up bed.

:o
How do you get out of that one? :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

“ well, darling, it was when I was working shifts and didn’t want to disturb you when I came home”........how’s that?😂😂😉
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Paul wrote: Tue Nov 28, 2017 1:12 pm
happy days wrote: Tue Nov 28, 2017 10:45 am
Col Lamb wrote: Tue Nov 28, 2017 9:24 am Whilst still being sidetracked.

A colleague of mine had to take the Wife of a deceased tenant who leased a lock up garage to view the contents only to find the garage carpeted, decorated and complete with a fully made up bed.

:o
How do you get out of that one? :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

“ well, darling, it was when I was working shifts and didn’t want to disturb you when I came home”........how’s that?😂😂😉
That seems to have come very easily. 😉
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Dandock wrote: Tue Nov 28, 2017 1:23 pm
Paul wrote: Tue Nov 28, 2017 1:12 pm
happy days wrote: Tue Nov 28, 2017 10:45 am How do you get out of that one? :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
“ well, darling, it was when I was working shifts and didn’t want to disturb you when I came home”........how’s that?😂😂😉
That seems to have come very easily. 😉
:lol:
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Dandock wrote: Tue Nov 28, 2017 1:23 pm
Paul wrote: Tue Nov 28, 2017 1:12 pm
happy days wrote: Tue Nov 28, 2017 10:45 am

How do you get out of that one? :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

“ well, darling, it was when I was working shifts and didn’t want to disturb you when I came home”........how’s that?😂😂😉
That seems to have come very easily. 😉
Methinks there are a few more lurking in there as well! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :!: :!: :!:
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