stolen tools - security

[David Skolnik]

Fred, Jim B -
For the sake of statistical credibility, I overrule my usual, instinctive 
(or instilled) sense of constraint in such matters to add that the 
Manhattan School of Music, where I worked for 13 years, had a situation 
similar to the one Fred describes, though the piano shop got off relatively 
easy.  The weakness of any security system is the component that's trusted, 
or entrusted, though, who would choose to abide an environment where 
everyone is suspect?

David Skolnik


At 12:54 PM 7/16/2004 -0600, you wrote:
>Fred,
>
>Of course no one ever steals anything here at BYU...
>
>Just a heads up- At a school where I worked before BYU we had a lot of
>stuff walk off. Come to find out that a custodian with a meth problem
>was doing it. The reason I'm telling you this is she was the most
>concerned/helpful of all of them. No one ever suspected her. After she
>was finally busted and in prison she wrote letters to us apologizing for
>all she did.
>
>The obvious thing we did (here)to protect our tools is we put our ID #
>on everything and made it very visible and hard to take off. We also put
>another hidden one where we could. Stuff finally turned up at a pawn
>shop.
>
>
>Good luck,
>Jim
>