abroxis wrote:Open the door for the teacher ...... no prob except when there is a break in will your name be on the list of suspects.
Yeah, no kidding.
I was an in-house institutional locksmith for a school for a while. It seemed almost a daily thing that I'd get called to open a desk, file cabinet or closet when someone had lost or forgotten their keys.
First time I opened one for them was a file cabinet in the main office. The nervous glances I got from the office staff bordered on fear when they saw how easily I could open them. Basically as quickly as if I'd had the proper key, since they were just simple wafer locks. After that, I made a list of the key codes of every lock in the building, and had a key to each on a master ring that I kept locked up. Then if someone called me, it would take a few minutes longer but I'd dig out the master ring and use the proper key to open their lock and allow them to maintain the illusion of security they had in their heads.
Even after I was no longer officially their locksmith I was still there for at least a short while daily since it was where my kids went to school. I'd still get paged to the office regularly and asked if I could open a lock since it took forever to get the custodian to do it. I didn't have access to the master ring of keys I'd put together, so I was back to using picks. But I'd learned my lesson and I usually made a show of effort for a couple of minutes before "finally" opening a lock, just so it didn't look
too easy.
Even then, I still had one teacher ask me directly "sooo... you could get in to my stuff at any time if you wanted to?" I just said "yes, but I wouldn't . It's called ethics".
I still occasionally get teachers asking me to open their stuff for them when they don't have their keys, but I believe in covering my backside. I just politely decline and let them know I'd be happy to do so, but that those requests have to go through the office to avoid the apperance of any wrongdoing. That way if any lockout I did was called into question, it ensures I have multiple witnesses that it was legitimate.