# Woman wants to enter my secured building because she has and ID card on her neck and a clipboard **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 28, 2009, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-wants-to-enter-my-secured-building-because-she-has-and-id-card-on-her-neck-and-a-clipboard/511904 "2009-09-28T22:03:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2009, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-wants-to-enter-my-secured-building-because-she-has-and-id-card-on-her-neck-and-a-clipboard/511904/41 "2009-10-08T19:27:53Z")
> [@Duke\_of\_Rat](#): > > Be careful what you wish for, these people are crooks. We had one girl fall for it, and they generated a “purchase order” by manipulating a recording of the phone conversation. After they got her to say the model of the copier, they asked if it was correct. She replied, “Yes”. They then took the recording of her saying her name, the “yes”, and made an entirely new recording where it sounded like she placed and order, giving her name, the model of the copier, and when asked if the billing address was correct, yes. We get the same sort of calls for some sort of “Internet Yellow Pages” directory listing. They call asking for confirmation of your company name, address, etc, and before you know it they’re slickly signing you up for a premium listing that costs $300. Best thing to do is hang up on these guys too. ---
**Author:** ![Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bc8723/32.png) [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unauthorized_Cinnamon)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2009, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-wants-to-enter-my-secured-building-because-she-has-and-id-card-on-her-neck-and-a-clipboard/511904/42 "2009-10-08T21:54:48Z")
> [@Never\_Say\_Dice](#): > > What an odd thing to think. I’d wager almost no municipality writes laws about taking polls, and most don’t bother with door to door salesmen, except for a business permit, which can be obtained by just listing “sales”. For what it’s worth: [http://www.townofcary.org/\_\_shared/assets/solicitorspermit11027.pdf](http://www.townofcary.org/__shared/assets/solicitorspermit11027.pdf) ---
**Author:** ![\_cc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/e19b73/32.png) [@\_cc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_cc)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2009, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-wants-to-enter-my-secured-building-because-she-has-and-id-card-on-her-neck-and-a-clipboard/511904/43 "2009-10-14T07:41:03Z")
God damn that woman for trying to do the only job she can get in this economy to feed her kids. Damn her to hell! ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2009, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-wants-to-enter-my-secured-building-because-she-has-and-id-card-on-her-neck-and-a-clipboard/511904/44 "2009-10-14T10:43:40Z")
Trying to do a job is one thing. Trying to get around security is quite another thing. Wording a letter to make it sound like someone connected with the building security actually endorses a product, when they haven’t, is fraud, in my book. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2009, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-wants-to-enter-my-secured-building-because-she-has-and-id-card-on-her-neck-and-a-clipboard/511904/45 "2009-10-14T14:23:19Z")
> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#): > > Trying to do a job is one thing. Trying to get around security is quite another thing. Wording a letter to make it sound like someone connected with the building security actually endorses a product, when they haven’t, is fraud, in my book. Word. The complaints, unless I’m not understanding this correctly, are 1) the lying, and 2) threatening to blitzkrieg the office with FedEx packages. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2009, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-wants-to-enter-my-secured-building-because-she-has-and-id-card-on-her-neck-and-a-clipboard/511904/46 "2009-10-14T16:18:08Z")
> [@'\[cc](#): > > ;11661477’]God damn that woman for trying to do the only job she can get in this economy to feed her kids. Damn her to hell! A rationale that’s equally compelling when applied to telemarketers, panhandlers, and bulk-email-spammers. Which is to say, not at all. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2009, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-wants-to-enter-my-secured-building-because-she-has-and-id-card-on-her-neck-and-a-clipboard/511904/47 "2009-10-14T19:13:58Z")
I don’t hate the people on the ground–chances are, if they’re in a job that shitty, it’s because they’re desperate. They get sympathy and pity. It’s the people who set the policies that I loathe with every fiber of my being. ---
**Author:** ![Corner\_Case](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/corner_case/32/234_2.png) [@Corner\_Case](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corner_Case)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2009, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-wants-to-enter-my-secured-building-because-she-has-and-id-card-on-her-neck-and-a-clipboard/511904/48 "2009-10-14T19:38:22Z")
> [@phouka](#): > > Did she say her name was Claus Hergesheimer? Was she checking radiation shields? > > If so, it could be trouble. If you’ve got the head of [SHADO](http://ufoseries.com/) pretending to be checking radiation shields, I’d say you were in very deep trouble. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-wants-to-enter-my-secured-building-because-she-has-and-id-card-on-her-neck-and-a-clipboard/511904.md?page=2)