# Secret exits/entrances used by management - shady or not? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 26, 2012, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-exits-entrances-used-by-management-shady-or-not/635925 "2012-09-26T20:53:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Diamonds02](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5a626/32.png) [@Diamonds02](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diamonds02)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2012, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-exits-entrances-used-by-management-shady-or-not/635925/1 "2012-09-26T20:53:45Z")
Um, we just discovered that at least one of our managers use a secret driveway or whatever to leave our parking lot. We’re located near a lightly wooded area. One night recently, me and a few drivers and a (new) manager saw one of our older managers sitting in his car. So we’re standing out in the back chatting, and then we noticed something odd as hell. The manager disappeared! The way our lot and building is made, that manager HAD to pass us in order to leave. On the side our manager was parked on is fenced and there’s woods. The only way that could be possible for him to escape is there is some secret exit somewhere in the fencing. We all found the possibility of management, or at least this particular manage, having a secret exit kind of creepy. What would be a motive for such? FYI we are a local (but) popular pizza place. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2012, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-exits-entrances-used-by-management-shady-or-not/635925/2 "2012-09-26T20:57:32Z")
I think most pizza restaurants have such a thing, just in case, you know. It’s just not well publicized, for obvious reasons. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2012, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-exits-entrances-used-by-management-shady-or-not/635925/3 "2012-09-26T21:02:59Z")
Don’t you just hate it when they don’t swing the fireplace/panel back into the original position when entering and leaving the hidden laboratory…especially if there’s a fire going on in the fireplace? You walk into the room and it’s full of smoke that seems to be coming from nowhere, and sometimes it takes fucking _forever_ to find the hidden switch! ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2012, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-exits-entrances-used-by-management-shady-or-not/635925/4 "2012-09-26T21:03:53Z")
Management has to have secret entrances and exits so there will be good plot points for Law & Order, The Mentalist, and Murder She Wrote. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2012, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-exits-entrances-used-by-management-shady-or-not/635925/5 "2012-09-26T21:06:48Z")
Obviously a pizza place is going to need such a contingency and they’re going to need it to be confidential. Is there something I am missing? ETA: ninja’ed by Procustus. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2012, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-exits-entrances-used-by-management-shady-or-not/635925/6 "2012-09-26T21:10:52Z")
Some years ago, in this city, there was a terrible shooting incident. Disgruntled employee storms the building, shoots the place up. Hellish. Immediately after, my company (completely different place, but in a similar industry) built new escape routes out of the building for the upper management, especially the HR department. Sad to say, it makes sense. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2012, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-exits-entrances-used-by-management-shady-or-not/635925/7 "2012-09-26T21:15:55Z")
Diamonds02, you have been instructed to limit starting threads to no more than one a week; you started one yesterday. I’m giving you a warning for ignoring a moderator’s instructions. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2012, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-exits-entrances-used-by-management-shady-or-not/635925/8 "2012-09-26T21:16:13Z")
As long as they don’t start using my secret exits, I’m cool with it.