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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/dudsmm on 2025-01-13 19:17:03+00:00.
A few years after 9/11, I was working at a manufacturing facility a couple hours from Jackson Hole, WY. A part of my job was I interacting with the electric utility on outages, safety, and maintenance.
In the Spring, our department's admin was assigned to plan an executive gathering in Jackson Hole. 10 executive for 5 days. She shared the budget was over $100k. The executives would take a 1/2 day side trip to the manufacturing facility to visit us plebes.
I also found out they were taking a helicopter in from Jackson Hole, which was need to know, and I was NOT supposed to know...also, no helicopter inbounds had take place since 9/11.
Cue the MC... My job required me to report any aircraft flying near to the High Voltage direct feed power lines. I spoted the helicopter and dialed up the Utility to report. The Utility sent the onsite security to verify, and ID the copter. It landed on a pad nearby and was swarmed by 3 security trucks. They ID"d each passenger, as it was the job. This delayed the executives, so they only spent an hour at the facility and flew back.
I was doing my job, security was doing their job, and the Utility followed procedure...