A friend in the military was once assigned to test the security of an ordnance storage facility. Made it all the way in and out again using a Hi-vis and a fake inspector Identity card that had a photograph of a chimpanzee.
@@lancerevell5979 And if you're 5 minutes late getting home you'll find 5 or 6 people sitting in your living room filling out applications and 1 at your dining room table being interviewed for your position by your cat. The cat eye glasses low on his nose looks at you and says 😾 "YOU'RE LATE"!!!! 😾 I THOUGHT YOU QUIT !!!! application's are on the table fill one out , take a number and wait your turn. 🙀
Fun fact: House cats are desert animals with a body temperature of around 100f. They don’t like being cold because of this. They will adapt to colder, but will take any chance they can to snuggle up to warm things. This is also one of the reasons they like small, easy to keep warm spaces to nap in. I knew a guy that had a water cooled work computer that was always on. He used the radiator from it to warm a cat box. That solved 2 problems. His cat now had a warm place to nap and because his cat wasn’t sleeping on his computer, he had less hair to clean out of it.
I had an external water tower cooling solution for my pc for a time (cools on same principle as a swamp cooler), After a few months i noticed my temps while still safe were about 7c higher then when i first set it up, pulled the water block apart to find cat hair entrenched, restricting but not fully blocking(yet) flow in the copper fins of the water block, I ordered a 3 120mm fan rad the next paycheck.
A friend of mine with 4 long hair cats had that clogged power supply (among MANY other things) problem with his PC's as well...which is a serious problem for his since he's a Work form Home Programmer by profession... He ended up solving the cats on the tower problem by going to a local Welding Shop, and asking them to make a very special enclosure for him... Now all of his PC Towers sit inside a cage made of barbed wire woven together into a box just lager than the Tower and welded together so even if something does get dropped on it, it won't deform and scratch or puncture the Tower... All 4 cats very quickly learned to find another warm spot to snooze, though my friend did have to deal with some unhappy fuzzballs far a few days...he got some meat processor's chain mail anti-cut gloves for when he had to brush them daily for a while...it was that or have his wrists flayed to the bone each time the brush got near a cat... 😄😁😆😅😂🤣
We have used a low power heating pad as a decoy for the cat. My friend uses an old computer that doesn’t work but you can get it to turn on which makes it warm. There are ways I tell you.
The "clipboard trick" really works. I first learned it in my Navy hitch aboard ship. I volunteered for "Duty Divisional Inventory Petty Officer". When I got tired of working on radios (I was UHF tech) , I'd grab my inventory clipboard and stroll through the ship, "checking inventory". I was also "test equipment PO", and had the key to the test equipment compartment, as both jobs dovetailed nicely. Came in handy when the others were grabbed for hauling supplies aboard and other working parties. Later in my state IT career, I again got the gig as "Property Custodian" keeping track of inventory. My department had people and teams on about half the building's 17 floors. Lots of room to roam when I got bored programming. I loved the Dilbert comics, and learned a lot of techniques for dodging boring work details. 😎
Yeah, Rob, cats can live into their 20's getting grumpier, harder to move, more disheveled, and emitting more hair as they age. My sincerest sympathies and good luck.
Yup! I have a 16 yr old black & white long haired cat. I vacuum my laptop at least once per week. I also got some rubber/silicone plugs for any port/orifice not containing a cord.
To my understanding the "Permission to speak freely" is akin to "With all due respect" followed by telling them what a raging moron they are...but in a way to keep your stripes.
Another way of doing that, which we used in The Corps, is using “No disrespect intended”. If you preface your statement like that USUALLY the superior that hears it realizes, after the fact, that yes indeed they did screw the pooch
I worked on a friend's computer because, "It just stops running after a few minutes." Open it up and it was full of cat hair. On my desktop I tape gauze in front of the air intake. It traps any hair before it can get in. It's easy to see when it needs changing. Once a year I give it a deeper clean.
Spot on an the cat description when it comes to cats and computers, my cat will not get off my laptop when ever it comes on no matter how hard I try, my only options are to either kick him out of the room and hear him howl for hours on end or accept my fate.
I've heard tales a cat lying own on the warm thing to sleep... only, the warm thing the cat chose to sleep on was a CPAP machine... not much of a problem until she farts into the intake.
Damn I have never heard of this before! I know this is real but you sir have won TH-cam for the day. This gave me a laugh that I didn’t realize I needed. Hope the cat has stayed off your CPAP after that.
Dressing Down the Commanding General: I've done similar to an XO. And "Permission to speak freely" is exactly as you described. Just because he's a General doesn't mean you (as a technician) aren't responsible to use your positional authority to "Politely" advise that what you are being asked to do is beyond the pail. And it's not just cats and dogs... If you keep your tower on a carpeted floor (or out in your woodshop,) it's a good idea to blow it out every 6 months or so (I actually use a Yard blower, just keep the business end outside the plane of the cover or you will end up having the static buildup in the yard-blower frying your PC)
Story 2---a carpenter once told me he always carried a tape measure for just that same reason. Always appear busy to avoid being needlessly pulled away from your actual work.
I had a similar thing happen when I was in the Marine Corps. I worked security at a Scif and a Col. walked in with his group of Maj. and said he had a meeting to go to and need to be escorted in. No problem let me look you up….he wasn’t allowed in the building. When I told him this he raised his voice at me and I calmly stood up looked him in the eyes and told him to leave or the police would be there in under a minute. (I had a great working relationship with the police on that base). He screamed he wanted to talk to somebody with higher rank than a lance corporal (E-3) so I brought out the gunnery sergeant (E-7) who told him the same thing. He was getting mad that he wasn’t getting his way and as he threatened me with a court martial (he didn’t actually have the power to do so) the general and the civilian leader walked out and heard him throwing his fit. He was promptly forced to apologize to me and told to write an essay on why you don’t harass other Marines. I don’t know if he ever actually wrote the essay but he did leave shortly thereafter and I didn’t see him again.
Once when I was at my last job, one of my coworkers, who had a stand alone printer, suffered a paper jam. She pulled out the paper tray and noticed red ink on the paper. Thinking that that was kind of odd and her printer may be shot, she shoves back in again to remove the ink cartridge. Then I hear a blood curdling scream as she dropped it on her desk and ran out of the office. Our other coworker follows her to see if she's okay and I inspect the ink cartridge. Turns out, a mouse was on the paper tray and got its head caught in the paper picker. The body was hanging off the bottom of the ink cartridge as it's all connected and comes out in one piece. She HATES rodents and completely lost it when she saw mouse hanging down. I had to take the assembly apart to remove the body and clean it. Then I replaced some of the paper in the tray and told her it was all done. It still took her another half hour to even return to her desk. She never lived it down!
Guys, I'm an E-3 (Seaman) and to even chat casually with a Chief (E-7+) is fucking nerve-wracking. This dude talked to the CO of the base (Big guy on big chair prolly O-6 and above). Just to talk to him without going through chain of command will get you kicked from the base. But noOOOOOoo, this guy fucking dressed HIM down like it was his little brother who didn't deserved to be yelled at, but reminded of the consequences of leaking TS/SCI information to the internet inside a SCIF.
Loki was banned from hubby’s office after he switched off his pc 3 times in a day. His paw was just the right size for the power button. I think he aimed for it when he would hop onto the tower on his way to the window.
While not having anywhere near the responsibilities that SP4/Sgt had while my time in the service I can tell you that it takes some BIG BRASS BALLS to tell a General something like that and I would loved to have been a fly on the wall when he told the General that.
Thankfully my cat does not sit on my computer, she did play with the cables when she was young, even pulled some out on ocassion. But nowadays she likes to plop down on my keyboard or "hunt" something on one of the monitors.
Lol, I have almost the same story. I was in the G6 at JBB and had the same request from our BG. I said no in a proper way and did not do the sarcastic part. No reprisal or attaboys from my enlisted command though. Funny coincidence.
That reminds me, need to clean my comp tomorrow. Last week was supposed to be it but the one day I didn't need to be on my comp ASAP, I slept for 12 hours straight so that kind of interfered with things
Permission to speak freely: know how far you can push it. Some higher ups will take constructive criticism, and some will punish you for insubordination.
A friend in the military was once assigned to test the security of an ordnance storage facility. Made it all the way in and out again using a Hi-vis and a fake inspector Identity card that had a photograph of a chimpanzee.
Why did he use the ID of a real guard?
a high vis vest, clipboard, and ID card combined with confidence will get you into around places you don't belong. In addition possibly escorted.
@@aralornwolf3140 He didn't, that would have required a Baboon's face...
😄😁😆😅😂🤣
Was he bald with a nar code tattoo on the back of his head
Story 1: Bet the Old Man was smiling when he signed the promotion...
Did you know cat's can memorize up to 150 different commands. They just don't want too. 😺
Haha.... The old adage is right. "Dogs have owners, cats have staff!"
@@lancerevell5979 And if you're 5 minutes late getting home you'll find 5 or 6 people sitting in your living room filling out applications and 1 at your dining room table being interviewed for your position by your cat. The cat eye glasses low on his nose looks at you and says 😾 "YOU'RE LATE"!!!! 😾 I THOUGHT YOU QUIT !!!! application's are on the table fill one out , take a number and wait your turn. 🙀
Fun fact: House cats are desert animals with a body temperature of around 100f. They don’t like being cold because of this. They will adapt to colder, but will take any chance they can to snuggle up to warm things. This is also one of the reasons they like small, easy to keep warm spaces to nap in.
I knew a guy that had a water cooled work computer that was always on. He used the radiator from it to warm a cat box. That solved 2 problems. His cat now had a warm place to nap and because his cat wasn’t sleeping on his computer, he had less hair to clean out of it.
I had an external water tower cooling solution for my pc for a time (cools on same principle as a swamp cooler), After a few months i noticed my temps while still safe were about 7c higher then when i first set it up, pulled the water block apart to find cat hair entrenched, restricting but not fully blocking(yet) flow in the copper fins of the water block, I ordered a 3 120mm fan rad the next paycheck.
A friend of mine with 4 long hair cats had that clogged power supply (among MANY other things) problem with his PC's as well...which is a serious problem for his since he's a Work form Home Programmer by profession...
He ended up solving the cats on the tower problem by going to a local Welding Shop, and asking them to make a very special enclosure for him...
Now all of his PC Towers sit inside a cage made of barbed wire woven together into a box just lager than the Tower and welded together so even if something does get dropped on it, it won't deform and scratch or puncture the Tower...
All 4 cats very quickly learned to find another warm spot to snooze, though my friend did have to deal with some unhappy fuzzballs far a few days...he got some meat processor's chain mail anti-cut gloves for when he had to brush them daily for a while...it was that or have his wrists flayed to the bone each time the brush got near a cat...
😄😁😆😅😂🤣
We have used a low power heating pad as a decoy for the cat. My friend uses an old computer that doesn’t work but you can get it to turn on which makes it warm. There are ways I tell you.
The "clipboard trick" really works. I first learned it in my Navy hitch aboard ship. I volunteered for "Duty Divisional Inventory Petty Officer". When I got tired of working on radios (I was UHF tech) , I'd grab my inventory clipboard and stroll through the ship, "checking inventory". I was also "test equipment PO", and had the key to the test equipment compartment, as both jobs dovetailed nicely. Came in handy when the others were grabbed for hauling supplies aboard and other working parties.
Later in my state IT career, I again got the gig as "Property Custodian" keeping track of inventory. My department had people and teams on about half the building's 17 floors. Lots of room to roam when I got bored programming.
I loved the Dilbert comics, and learned a lot of techniques for dodging boring work details. 😎
Clean high vis vest and a clean white hardhat and a clipboard can get you anywhere in a warehouse the bigger the easiest
Yeah, Rob, cats can live into their 20's getting grumpier, harder to move, more disheveled, and emitting more hair as they age. My sincerest sympathies and good luck.
Yup! I have a 16 yr old black & white long haired cat. I vacuum my laptop at least once per week. I also got some rubber/silicone plugs for any port/orifice not containing a cord.
My sister's cats liked to lie atop her VCRs. They liked the warmth.
I think that last story triggered Rob. Poor Rob...
To my understanding the "Permission to speak freely" is akin to "With all due respect" followed by telling them what a raging moron they are...but in a way to keep your stripes.
6:25 this almost... Kind of. Seems like a "this didn't happen so much it unhappened things that already happened."
Another way of doing that, which we used in The Corps, is using “No disrespect intended”. If you preface your statement like that USUALLY the superior that hears it realizes, after the fact, that yes indeed they did screw the pooch
I loved the customer's rant to her spouse on story 3 lol
That last story had me rolling on the floor. My husband does IT and when I told him, he laughed so hard he had to run to the bathroom! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I worked on a friend's computer because, "It just stops running after a few minutes." Open it up and it was full of cat hair. On my desktop I tape gauze in front of the air intake. It traps any hair before it can get in. It's easy to see when it needs changing. Once a year I give it a deeper clean.
For story 2, I have only one sentence to say: look up Clipboard of Authority.
Spot on an the cat description when it comes to cats and computers, my cat will not get off my laptop when ever it comes on no matter how hard I try, my only options are to either kick him out of the room and hear him howl for hours on end or accept my fate.
Story 3: brilliant idea on OP's part to ask for donation to the animal shelter!
It's amazing how well keeping your cool when the sky is falling works.
I've heard tales a cat lying own on the warm thing to sleep... only, the warm thing the cat chose to sleep on was a CPAP machine... not much of a problem until she farts into the intake.
Does that make it a CCRAP machine or maybe a CPOOP machine.
@@VestigialHead Nah, it's a CPARP machine.
Damn I have never heard of this before! I know this is real but you sir have won TH-cam for the day. This gave me a laugh that I didn’t realize I needed. Hope the cat has stayed off your CPAP after that.
@@NocturnEternal Not mine... but I did get it from a first-hand source
@@BazilRat Duly noted.
Dressing Down the Commanding General: I've done similar to an XO. And "Permission to speak freely" is exactly as you described. Just because he's a General doesn't mean you (as a technician) aren't responsible to use your positional authority to "Politely" advise that what you are being asked to do is beyond the pail.
And it's not just cats and dogs... If you keep your tower on a carpeted floor (or out in your woodshop,) it's a good idea to blow it out every 6 months or so (I actually use a Yard blower, just keep the business end outside the plane of the cover or you will end up having the static buildup in the yard-blower frying your PC)
Brilliant stories Rob, keep them coming. Have a great day, everybody.
Story 2---a carpenter once told me he always carried a tape measure for just that same reason. Always appear busy to avoid being needlessly pulled away from your actual work.
The clipboard trick works well in the military too!
I've found that managers who act in such a way as to be feared are rarely respected.
I had a similar thing happen when I was in the Marine Corps. I worked security at a Scif and a Col. walked in with his group of Maj. and said he had a meeting to go to and need to be escorted in. No problem let me look you up….he wasn’t allowed in the building. When I told him this he raised his voice at me and I calmly stood up looked him in the eyes and told him to leave or the police would be there in under a minute. (I had a great working relationship with the police on that base). He screamed he wanted to talk to somebody with higher rank than a lance corporal (E-3) so I brought out the gunnery sergeant (E-7) who told him the same thing. He was getting mad that he wasn’t getting his way and as he threatened me with a court martial (he didn’t actually have the power to do so) the general and the civilian leader walked out and heard him throwing his fit. He was promptly forced to apologize to me and told to write an essay on why you don’t harass other Marines. I don’t know if he ever actually wrote the essay but he did leave shortly thereafter and I didn’t see him again.
Nothing i like seeing more than military stories from kcc thank you so much
Hello Rob!
Hope you are great.
I can relate to the last things you said, I'm a cat owner too
Luis, let's be real - _dogs_ have owners; cats have staff - you're a servant! (I know very well; there are seven of them residing here with me...)
Once when I was at my last job, one of my coworkers, who had a stand alone printer, suffered a paper jam. She pulled out the paper tray and noticed red ink on the paper. Thinking that that was kind of odd and her printer may be shot, she shoves back in again to remove the ink cartridge. Then I hear a blood curdling scream as she dropped it on her desk and ran out of the office. Our other coworker follows her to see if she's okay and I inspect the ink cartridge. Turns out, a mouse was on the paper tray and got its head caught in the paper picker. The body was hanging off the bottom of the ink cartridge as it's all connected and comes out in one piece. She HATES rodents and completely lost it when she saw mouse hanging down. I had to take the assembly apart to remove the body and clean it. Then I replaced some of the paper in the tray and told her it was all done. It still took her another half hour to even return to her desk. She never lived it down!
Story 2 has me laughing so hard.
Yay, tales from tech-support! I love it, can’t get enough of it😽💗🤓
Thanks Rob!!! 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖
Rob I'm allergic to cats but wouldn't know how to live without one for long.
Bomb vid. Good to refind this channel
Afternoon Rob, thank you for bringing us another video for our eyes and ears to devour!!!
THANKS FOR THE READ!
Guys, I'm an E-3 (Seaman) and to even chat casually with a Chief (E-7+) is fucking nerve-wracking. This dude talked to the CO of the base (Big guy on big chair prolly O-6 and above). Just to talk to him without going through chain of command will get you kicked from the base. But noOOOOOoo, this guy fucking dressed HIM down like it was his little brother who didn't deserved to be yelled at, but reminded of the consequences of leaking TS/SCI information to the internet inside a SCIF.
YUP! It's just magical, that clipboard. Valuable tip. It works.
We have steam radiator heat, plus an electric radiator in the unheated mudroom. Never had an issue with a cat and electronics.
Loki was banned from hubby’s office after he switched off his pc 3 times in a day. His paw was just the right size for the power button. I think he aimed for it when he would hop onto the tower on his way to the window.
0:53 Of course everything goes to you, everything important goes through the E4s. There's a reason it's called the E4 Mafia.
Now I want to know about why they said cows! 😂
While not having anywhere near the responsibilities that SP4/Sgt had while my time in the service I can tell you that it takes some BIG BRASS BALLS to tell a General something like that and I would loved to have been a fly on the wall when he told the General that.
Thankfully my cat does not sit on my computer, she did play with the cables when she was young, even pulled some out on ocassion.
But nowadays she likes to plop down on my keyboard or "hunt" something on one of the monitors.
I recently gave you a subscribe Rob...the bit that did it? The little sing song of "I hope you have a wonderful day" at the end of you videos
Lol, I have almost the same story. I was in the G6 at JBB and had the same request from our BG. I said no in a proper way and did not do the sarcastic part. No reprisal or attaboys from my enlisted command though. Funny coincidence.
Something I've learned early on is that is one is spiteful they live long and hard so very likely Rob very likely
Let's just hope it doesn't live to 32 and actually breaks the world record. It'll hold that over Rob's head for ALL of their afterlives! 🤣
@@DinnerForkTongue First cool name second Lmao!!!!
That reminds me, need to clean my comp tomorrow. Last week was supposed to be it but the one day I didn't need to be on my comp ASAP, I slept for 12 hours straight so that kind of interfered with things
Clipboards are amazing and it works
Yeah, I am calling BS on that first story.
Good afternoon Rob
Don't think I've ever been so early. May the algorithm be ever in your favour, Rob
Like talking with some French Canadians, we call it fringlish .
Permission to speak freely: know how far you can push it. Some higher ups will take constructive criticism, and some will punish you for insubordination.
Good afternoon
That first story. Complete BS. You never address an officer or Senoir enlisted like that. Like what cringe
R/thathappened
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even with "permission to speak freely" that was over the line.