Text 19314, 77 rader
Skriven 2008-07-31 16:46:00 av Roy Witt (1:397/22)
  Kommentar till text 19241 av Ward Dossche (2:292/854)
Ärende: Make work
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31 Jul 08 08:39, Ward Dossche wrote to Roy Witt:


 RW>> WD> When you're done with that, you can go to this place and tell me
 RW>> WD> what you see there:

 RW>> WD>     51.10.24.36N  and  04.28.04.74E

 RW>> WD> Have fun with thatone.

 RW>> It's awfully blurry, but it must be your back yard. Perhaps you
 RW>> sitting on the veranda, sipping a beer.

 WD> Close enough. I'm BBQ-ing but the resolution is not good enough.

 WD> How 'bout thisone. What can you make of it?

 WD>     lat=52.0881609294, lon=4.31134757755

It looks like either a hotel or apartment back balcony. Elevated, perhaps
on the 2nd floor. No idea about the significance of it.

 RW>> WD> Is it still that easy to unlock car doors?

 RW>> :o) It takes longer to do the paper work. That I have to collect the
 RW>> owner's driver's license number, street address, etc...then I have
 RW>> to collect the plate and VIN numbers and have them sign it. If I
 RW>> spend 10 minutes on a call, I've been there too long.

 WD> That many people locking their cars with the keys inside?

The other evening I took a job that was on the cusp of our territory and
SA's. Their job number was 132. Each day the job numbers start over at
.001 with the first job after midnite. The full job number is the area,
date and sequence. san080729.132 (san = area, then, year, month, day, job
number) We're based out of New Braunfels, so our jobs start with NB.

 WD> Last time happened to me was July 4th 1976, yup ... Bicentennial day,
 WD> in Missoula MT. The guy that opened it just blew me away, like 2-3
 WD> seconds.

Last time for me was last year. I had opened this young man's car for the
3rd time in that many days and he asked me to let him know when it was
unlocked this time, because he was working. I left my keys in the ignition
with the engine running, manually locked the doors and anticipated
re-opening upon my return with the remote, which was in my pocket. That
was the day I found out that remotes don't work with the key in the
ignition. With my unlocking tools locked in the vehicle, there was no
alternative, I had to call my partner to loan me his tool. Embarrassing at
the time, but everyone had a great laugh at the managers meeting the
following week.

 WD> So any truth to that Nicolas Cage movie "Gone in 60 seconds", or what
 WD> was it called?

Yeup. That movie is embellished a lot, but that has happened. In my time
here, I've seen some employees get fired for such antics as opening a
locked car and collecting the fee, but not writing an invoice, thus
pocketing the money. Some employees have quit, only to start their own
business's, although that is against the contract they had signed with the
company.  They have been sued and are now out of business.

OTH, one SA tech I know, was shown on a TV news trouble-shooter program as
being the only honest person they interviewed that day. We're supposed to
ID by Texas law, any person who wants us to open a car for them. That is
first and foremost and stressed by the company as well. He refused to
unlock a vehicle because the owner had no ID, nor would they even attempt
to identify anything in the vehicle that would be out of sight, as in a
glove compartment. Eddie got a pat on the back by everyone that day, as
the incident made us all look honest in the public eye.

                R\%/itt



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