Sneaky Tour: Posing as New Joiners for Insider Access #shorts

We told them, "Yeah, we found out about those guided tours, but they we can't register for that anymore, and we are too few people to do that." And they said us, "Well, okay, you're right on that, but as luck would have it. The day you are scheduled to go there, there's also a uh a guided tour taking place for new joiners. So, maybe try joining that." That was a very good idea. So, we did. Uh we went there in the morning at 8:30. It was cold as hell because it was snowing. Um and then we waited for the bus of people of the new joiners there to arrive and they arrived. We joined the group and we're immediately greeted

by a presumably HR lady and he told us hey guys I haven't seen you all morning who are you guys and we had already we developed already a persona and uh and pretext for that and we told hey you know we are from the German branch and maybe they didn't contact you yet but we happen to be here just recently joined and we were told that this tour took place today and we should just join given the opportunity. What a coincident cool and she was fine with that so we joined that tour. It was super interesting. Um, after like 10 minutes or so, she came back to us and asked us, "Guys, what's your name? I I had a call

with HRHQ and they aren't aware of anybody joining." So, we gave our fake names. And she was okay with that. We continue to tour and another 10 minutes later, she was like, "Okay, guys, who's your manager? [laughter] Um, nobody's aware of you and nobody knows your names." And we told her, "Yeah, you know, our German branch, it's really known for having a super rocky onboarding. You know, it's known to be very hard on that. They screw up stuff all the time. So, it's we are not very surprised that you didn't hear of us and that maybe our manager is not in your system. That was a bit of a it was a bit weird, but um then she told us, well,

you know, it's a private event here. I can't have you be here. I'm I need to ask you to leave, which was a bummer, but it was it was somewhat okay. We were then escorted out by a a worker there, and he told us, you know, I don't get it. It's the same tour we give to the general public out there. What's the issue in having you here? We were briefly considering talking into letting us rejoin, but we were super certain that this HR lady would spot us again. So, we wouldn't do that. And this is a a half win or more of a fail admittedly because we didn't get to do what we wanted to do. But the situation did not

escalate. We were not busted. We were not really caught.