Best Call at Work This Week
A very Val-speak sort of woman called into my office this afternoon to inquire what the odd, like, plastic, like, card with (Company I Work For)'s name on it was doing, like, in, like, her car.
Said Company, another division thereof, manufactures RFID tags, which are used for parking lot entry control, toll lanes (such as on GA 400) and a host of other transportation access-related applications.
I explained to her what it was, without using the name 'RFID tag', as I've heard some conspiracy theorists opine on them. She could not explain (or, more likely, was not aware) how the item had gotten into her car, which she had somehow owned (and driven, even scarier) for three years. She seemed a bit frightened so I explained to her that the tags were nothing sinister.
"But, like, it just, like, randomly appeared in my car!"
I could resist no longer and explained to her that there was, in fact, no division of our company that employed aliens to randomly drop access cards into people's cars, and it was really nothing to worry about. The previous owner of the car, I continued, had likely left it there.
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She finished by asking "If I, like, smash the thing, will anything happen?"
I advised her to throw it away, wished her well, and politely dismissed her :)
Said Company, another division thereof, manufactures RFID tags, which are used for parking lot entry control, toll lanes (such as on GA 400) and a host of other transportation access-related applications.
I explained to her what it was, without using the name 'RFID tag', as I've heard some conspiracy theorists opine on them. She could not explain (or, more likely, was not aware) how the item had gotten into her car, which she had somehow owned (and driven, even scarier) for three years. She seemed a bit frightened so I explained to her that the tags were nothing sinister.
"But, like, it just, like, randomly appeared in my car!"
I could resist no longer and explained to her that there was, in fact, no division of our company that employed aliens to randomly drop access cards into people's cars, and it was really nothing to worry about. The previous owner of the car, I continued, had likely left it there.
...............
She finished by asking "If I, like, smash the thing, will anything happen?"
I advised her to throw it away, wished her well, and politely dismissed her :)