Well I don't know about you people BUT I have been extremely busy :)
So remember my last post where I got to be a ninja and was possibly on Asian TV?? WELL I got to do him again! This time I got permission to use a second investigator...the best of the best was given to me. I was actually pretty scared, this meant another oldie to impress.
So well he was late, and we didn't even see the person I had to watch enter the building...so I canvassed the area including the bike parking lot and just my luck his motorbike wasn't even there...so we canvassed the car park attached to the building he was in...not there...finally as a last resort we checked the floor level and we observed him inside. So we came to the conclusion that he drove and he parked his car inside the car park attached to the building. Thus I moved my car inside this car park and the 2nd agent moved theirs to a 5 minute loading zone (he was there for half an hour) after the hour I got the phone call advising what he was wearing and that he was departing, also that he told the rehab provider that he walked from MADEUPSUBURB to the appointment...yeh well he said that last time so pffft. I called the 2nd investigator and he was like ok cool "GET OUT OF YOUR CAR HE's ON FOOT!"
Gosh Darnit!
So I bolt from my car and run down the side street and see the 2nd Investigator pointing in the direction he went and then get back in his car....do you know how hard it is to film whilst running talking on the phone...yeh it doesn't work. So the routine is sprint up the hill-stop-film-sprint across busy traffic-stop film-he stops at an ATM-catch your breath, then film-bolt up another hilly main road-stop-duck-hide-film. I did this for about 6km...(thanks to an Iphone app I know this) followed him all the way to MADEUPSUBURB where he then got into an old crappy vehicle!! The 2nd investigator whistled for me to get in so I ran for the passenger seat before he could reverse and see me. We then followed this tricky (insert mean B word) all around the city, and I mean around the outskirts and then through it and then around it and out again, and then through tunnels around beaches. We went through 5 red lights, the wrong way up a one way, did 80 in a 50 zone, and pretty much cut a lot of people off (apologies if one of those persons was you) we managed to do this until he finally settled into his residence..located here was his bike along with another vehicle.
Would have loved to have stayed and watched him a while but my other investigator had his own work to get on with...which he mentioned A LOT...so I was like hmm well ok so I got dropped off at another adjoining suburb and he departed. I got to catch a ferry back to the city...first time for everything in this gig. Was quite nice actually.
The good thing about working with established investigators is that they have a heck of a lot more contacts that they feel free to give when you ask certain questions so have made some queries and cross fingers something new comes up :)
Helped another investigator today...didn't get to meet him though. I took care of the city stuff and was asked to catch the train back with her. So I did. Pity, he seemed really nice. Hopefully will work with him again.
In other news the weather is perfect right now for surveillance! It's summer and it is raining! How awesome is that! Also if you haven't seen the movie Warhorse...I suggest you do, I know it has nothing related to surveillance but it's a really good movie.
Stay cool!
Bunny
xx
Wednesday, 25 January 2012
Friday, 13 January 2012
The Tenth One
If you are sitting at home later today or tonight watching television or even tuning into some news on your laptop and you find yourself watching some Asian television or Asian news show and you find yourself listening intently into what the Asian reporter has to say and you see in the background some random female climbing a fence and then crawling through bushes and disappearing....it'll be me.
I had to cover a rehab appointment in town today for the purposes of getting an ID shot and "housing" him (i.e. following the person to their residence so that we know where this person lives) It was great fun as I got to meet the rehab chick and hear what she had to say which proved interesting as she said that this male was complaining because he had to drive to an area and then catch a train in to where the rehab was. However the client was adamant that this person would drive in since he was making such a fuss about having to find parking and driving so far from a different area not mentioned before. So to sum up, this person in my books is "full dodge". I wanted to use a second investigator, purely because if he did drive then two people can follow, or if he caught public transport then one investigator can go with him on the public transport and the other can drive and meet up at the station this person departed at. However I had to fly solo on this one.
So I rock up as per usual just over an hour before the allotted time, see the rehab provider and then find myself a nice stack out on the main street with the best possible view.
With situations like these, ALWAYS go with your gut instinct. I nabbed this guy straight away, I saw him walk towards rehab place, and away from it and getting his coffee then returning to the rehab place. My gut instinct was proved correct when reception called me and confirmed his attendance and his attire. He was in there for a little over an hour before I got a phone call saying "He's in the lift, and you'll have a long walk ahead of you since he told us that he parked his car in *insert a cool suburb name here". So keeping cool and blending in as best as you can I filmed this person departing and then walking and turning left to walk up a hill, I'm once again glad I trusted my gut instinct and stayed where I was as he kept looking around (so much for a neck injury) and then turned around and walked back the way he came, crossed the road and then right into a mass car park or should I say motorcycle-park. From the road there was no great vantage point so with quick thinking I raced up a ramp that leads away from the area. At the top of this ramp is a great fence, or wall type thing with LOTS of bushes and greenery...I think maybe flowers bloom from these weird green leaves but I'm not a green thumb so wouldn't know...As I was doing this a camera crew and an Asian reporter pointing the camera in my direction were setting up, I climbed the fence and watched as all the people around me wondered what the f*@k I was doing and were all probably thinking I was crazy or suicidal since it's a long drop back to the ground. I crawled through the bushes and got a great view of the guy below me and filmed him as he attended to his MOTORBIKE! Who the hell claiming a neck injury rides a motorbike! Safe to say even if I tried following this person I would lose him given he can go through the heavy traffic with ease and leave me fuming way behind. So I was kinda freaking out as I was so sure this person was going to look up and see me just chilling there filming him. But he didn't he was to preoccupied manoeuvring his bike out from others and then stalling it as he tried to leave. Was pretty funny actually. What was even funnier was when I was making my way back through the buses and the camera pointed in my direction with the reporter talking into the camera on the microphone, and then me jumping off the wall and a little kid going "WHOAH where'd she come from!" Ninja surprise for the week...check!
Client loved me. She was overly ecstatic about what I captured and advised me to return to the rehab chick and confirm my dude, and also informed me that I need to come back on a certain date to cover him again...but NOW she wants two investigators! Wish I had my motorbike licence, would be AWESOME to try and follow.
Back in the rehab place I provided what to these people was the best ending to a Friday afternoon ever! They actually even got excited, I guess to these people this is the coolest thing ever. To me it's exciting but just another day in the office, but it is enjoyable...especially when you get to be a Ninja.
Hope you all get to have a great weekend!
I'll be working! Cross fingers for cool weather!
Bunny
xx
I had to cover a rehab appointment in town today for the purposes of getting an ID shot and "housing" him (i.e. following the person to their residence so that we know where this person lives) It was great fun as I got to meet the rehab chick and hear what she had to say which proved interesting as she said that this male was complaining because he had to drive to an area and then catch a train in to where the rehab was. However the client was adamant that this person would drive in since he was making such a fuss about having to find parking and driving so far from a different area not mentioned before. So to sum up, this person in my books is "full dodge". I wanted to use a second investigator, purely because if he did drive then two people can follow, or if he caught public transport then one investigator can go with him on the public transport and the other can drive and meet up at the station this person departed at. However I had to fly solo on this one.
So I rock up as per usual just over an hour before the allotted time, see the rehab provider and then find myself a nice stack out on the main street with the best possible view.
With situations like these, ALWAYS go with your gut instinct. I nabbed this guy straight away, I saw him walk towards rehab place, and away from it and getting his coffee then returning to the rehab place. My gut instinct was proved correct when reception called me and confirmed his attendance and his attire. He was in there for a little over an hour before I got a phone call saying "He's in the lift, and you'll have a long walk ahead of you since he told us that he parked his car in *insert a cool suburb name here". So keeping cool and blending in as best as you can I filmed this person departing and then walking and turning left to walk up a hill, I'm once again glad I trusted my gut instinct and stayed where I was as he kept looking around (so much for a neck injury) and then turned around and walked back the way he came, crossed the road and then right into a mass car park or should I say motorcycle-park. From the road there was no great vantage point so with quick thinking I raced up a ramp that leads away from the area. At the top of this ramp is a great fence, or wall type thing with LOTS of bushes and greenery...I think maybe flowers bloom from these weird green leaves but I'm not a green thumb so wouldn't know...As I was doing this a camera crew and an Asian reporter pointing the camera in my direction were setting up, I climbed the fence and watched as all the people around me wondered what the f*@k I was doing and were all probably thinking I was crazy or suicidal since it's a long drop back to the ground. I crawled through the bushes and got a great view of the guy below me and filmed him as he attended to his MOTORBIKE! Who the hell claiming a neck injury rides a motorbike! Safe to say even if I tried following this person I would lose him given he can go through the heavy traffic with ease and leave me fuming way behind. So I was kinda freaking out as I was so sure this person was going to look up and see me just chilling there filming him. But he didn't he was to preoccupied manoeuvring his bike out from others and then stalling it as he tried to leave. Was pretty funny actually. What was even funnier was when I was making my way back through the buses and the camera pointed in my direction with the reporter talking into the camera on the microphone, and then me jumping off the wall and a little kid going "WHOAH where'd she come from!" Ninja surprise for the week...check!
Client loved me. She was overly ecstatic about what I captured and advised me to return to the rehab chick and confirm my dude, and also informed me that I need to come back on a certain date to cover him again...but NOW she wants two investigators! Wish I had my motorbike licence, would be AWESOME to try and follow.
Back in the rehab place I provided what to these people was the best ending to a Friday afternoon ever! They actually even got excited, I guess to these people this is the coolest thing ever. To me it's exciting but just another day in the office, but it is enjoyable...especially when you get to be a Ninja.
Hope you all get to have a great weekend!
I'll be working! Cross fingers for cool weather!
Bunny
xx
Tuesday, 3 January 2012
The Ninth One
Well today I don't know about you guys.... BUT I got pretty personal with the cows.
Oh and goats!
I was hell country today! Besides the hot car, no shade, and awkward vantage point it was pretty sweet hearing the buzzing of tiny bugs compared to honking horns and annoying nosey neighbours. The place I had to help out another investigator today was situated on some very large acreage. The current investigator was having not much luck with the job and needed some help. Being a rural job you can't sit in their street...it's way to obvious! If you feel like getting made on a rural job then yeh sure go park in their street....otherwise you need to determine the best likely route an individual would take if they departed their residence and take a vantage point in that area. With this case there were two possibilities. However this works best when you have vehicle makes/models and registrations...Like I said the current investigator wasn't having much luck.
So it's 0530am it's dark, slightly warm (not so great, this means a very warm day in the car) and the cows and animals are starting to make noises. So I decide, hey I grew up on a farm, I can see at least see three different vehicle in the distance...I'll ninja my way in and give it a crack.
Let me tell you that as I found an opening on one of the paddocks, and sprinted to each tree that provided a lot of cover, my heart was racing. I thought my heart was going to beat out of my chest and I'd get caught for sure when I had to sprint at least 600 metres and expose myself until I could get to the closest tree that allowed me to zoom in on my camera to obtain all the details I needed. Once I reached the tree and got what I set out for I was pretty happy with myself, it's almost like you let your guard down and you suddenly realise...I have to run back now. I didn't even bother taking to the trees, I just ran what felt like the 2km back to the safety of my car. I actually managed to say sorry to the cows when I ran past, if any one saw me, I'm sure they would have gotten a great laugh out of it. The other investigator was seriously laughing a lot at my expense. But what I did definitely paid off, I got to do two vehicle follows! All before 9am! So bonus!
I love getting all the action instead of just sitting there waiting. The people I followed turned out to be someone much younger and some one else not even the correct sex. But hey we now know that the person we need quite possibly drives the 3rd vehicle so we know what to look out for now.
I hope you all had a great Christmas and New Years! My festive days were spent out working, and like I expected I got some great footage...ok serious question here...what's with bogans socialising out the front of their houses? It's like hey I'm not complaining cos it means I get great footage opportunities but it's a bit odd don't you think? We have back yards for a reason. But hey keep it up, cos filming you is quite a pleasure.
Oh! I finished that person off before Christmas, the one I previously mentioned was very surveillance aware and other people had been made before the even had a chance! And I full got great footage! Didn't get made at all! At first when this person left her house with what I'm assuming were her parents, she didn't seem to have a clue, and I gave her plenty of space as I followed her to all the different towns as she shopped for the countless Christmas presents. Was great! On the journey back, I managed to do a front follow and she remained 5 cars behind me all the way back to her house, I beat her home by only a few seconds and managed to park my car in the same vantage point before she drove into her street...then things got weird.
She drove over the top of me (i.e. came from behind me and over took) and then reverse parked her car in the same place it was before she departed, I was leaning so far back that I had to hold my camera up just to see...but then she drove off.
My stomach did a flip, and my head was telling me to "follow, follow, follow" but I didn't. I trusted my gut. And I'm glad I did because the next thing I know, she is driving back towards me. I crouched further down and didn't even want to risk looking up to see. I sneakily held up my camera, and watched as she again reverse parked in her usual spot. I think it was a ploy to see if I would follow her, so I'm glad I trusted my gut. Because she was again care free and carried countless boxes back into her residence! SO boo yah! Love life! Gotcha! haha!
Well, hope that this year brings you all great things! I'm off tomorrow to spend my day in a hallway! Wish me luck!
Bunny
xx
Oh and goats!
I was hell country today! Besides the hot car, no shade, and awkward vantage point it was pretty sweet hearing the buzzing of tiny bugs compared to honking horns and annoying nosey neighbours. The place I had to help out another investigator today was situated on some very large acreage. The current investigator was having not much luck with the job and needed some help. Being a rural job you can't sit in their street...it's way to obvious! If you feel like getting made on a rural job then yeh sure go park in their street....otherwise you need to determine the best likely route an individual would take if they departed their residence and take a vantage point in that area. With this case there were two possibilities. However this works best when you have vehicle makes/models and registrations...Like I said the current investigator wasn't having much luck.
So it's 0530am it's dark, slightly warm (not so great, this means a very warm day in the car) and the cows and animals are starting to make noises. So I decide, hey I grew up on a farm, I can see at least see three different vehicle in the distance...I'll ninja my way in and give it a crack.
Let me tell you that as I found an opening on one of the paddocks, and sprinted to each tree that provided a lot of cover, my heart was racing. I thought my heart was going to beat out of my chest and I'd get caught for sure when I had to sprint at least 600 metres and expose myself until I could get to the closest tree that allowed me to zoom in on my camera to obtain all the details I needed. Once I reached the tree and got what I set out for I was pretty happy with myself, it's almost like you let your guard down and you suddenly realise...I have to run back now. I didn't even bother taking to the trees, I just ran what felt like the 2km back to the safety of my car. I actually managed to say sorry to the cows when I ran past, if any one saw me, I'm sure they would have gotten a great laugh out of it. The other investigator was seriously laughing a lot at my expense. But what I did definitely paid off, I got to do two vehicle follows! All before 9am! So bonus!
I love getting all the action instead of just sitting there waiting. The people I followed turned out to be someone much younger and some one else not even the correct sex. But hey we now know that the person we need quite possibly drives the 3rd vehicle so we know what to look out for now.
I hope you all had a great Christmas and New Years! My festive days were spent out working, and like I expected I got some great footage...ok serious question here...what's with bogans socialising out the front of their houses? It's like hey I'm not complaining cos it means I get great footage opportunities but it's a bit odd don't you think? We have back yards for a reason. But hey keep it up, cos filming you is quite a pleasure.
Oh! I finished that person off before Christmas, the one I previously mentioned was very surveillance aware and other people had been made before the even had a chance! And I full got great footage! Didn't get made at all! At first when this person left her house with what I'm assuming were her parents, she didn't seem to have a clue, and I gave her plenty of space as I followed her to all the different towns as she shopped for the countless Christmas presents. Was great! On the journey back, I managed to do a front follow and she remained 5 cars behind me all the way back to her house, I beat her home by only a few seconds and managed to park my car in the same vantage point before she drove into her street...then things got weird.
She drove over the top of me (i.e. came from behind me and over took) and then reverse parked her car in the same place it was before she departed, I was leaning so far back that I had to hold my camera up just to see...but then she drove off.
My stomach did a flip, and my head was telling me to "follow, follow, follow" but I didn't. I trusted my gut. And I'm glad I did because the next thing I know, she is driving back towards me. I crouched further down and didn't even want to risk looking up to see. I sneakily held up my camera, and watched as she again reverse parked in her usual spot. I think it was a ploy to see if I would follow her, so I'm glad I trusted my gut. Because she was again care free and carried countless boxes back into her residence! SO boo yah! Love life! Gotcha! haha!
Well, hope that this year brings you all great things! I'm off tomorrow to spend my day in a hallway! Wish me luck!
Bunny
xx
Wednesday, 21 December 2011
The Eighth One
I hate school holidays.
You'd think people would want to take their kids out and be active to keep them amused whilst they aren't in school from 9 till 3.
BUT NO!
It's like "oh yeh, stay at home, you sleep in whilst some of us had to wake up a 5AM to be here! don't even come outside for more than 10 minutes, let your kids be bored at home all day...BAD DAD!" haha but full serious, entertain your kids during school holidays, gimme heaps of ammunition and opportunities to film you. Ta.
Sucks even more when a really active claimant isn't active on the last day of surveillance, you are in two minds of calling it quits and coming back the next day but then you're all like...man seriously I'm sick of watching you, hurry up and do something.
Tomorrow is a big day for me, it's going to take me close to two hours from base to the location I need to conduct surveillance in. So great for kilometres and paid driving hours :) I just hope the person is active, it's apparently meant to rain, but I hope it doesn't stop the person from being active. I have to be out there for 10 hours...well that's how many hours they've given me, and I wanna hit this out in one day. Will report back on how I go.
So Christmas is 4 days away! Actually am going to work in the morning, hope to get some footage of someone being drunk. Will be CLASSIC! Plus it's what my client wants, so Christmas with a BBQ a nice day (hopefully, it's Sydney and it's been raining every day this week so far) and a beer in hand...hopefully one too many and BAM! Here's bunny getting you paralytic for my client! Will be sweeeetttt!
One thing I'm definitely not liking in this state during this festive season is the traffic! Seriously like where did all you people come from? Normally I can cruise along the M5 motorway for at least half an hour before I hit some minimal traffic, these days it's like not even 10 minutes! Taking main roads isn't any better either, swear my GPS is going to have a mental break down and instead of telling me to turn left on King Georges Road it's gonna say "look woman just turn around and go home I can't be effed giving you short cuts cos this shizz is everywhere". My GPS and I have a love-hate relationship...every now and then I even tell him that we might have to break up, but then he talks in his English accent and I'm like awww ok I can keep you a lil longer Mr Garmin.
Glad to see a lot of you are reading mu blog and now looking up Bloggies! Yes they have a time and date stamp, and they are seriously awesome! Light weight, small and amazing. Hopefully they'll make more Sony Bloggies with a swivel head but with a better zoom range....hmmmm "Dear Sony People...."
Loving this week actually am finishing a lot of cases, especially ones that have been out on hold for a while due to clients wishes etc.
This week is so far panning out to be awesome! Hope you are all having a great week and hope you all have a very merry christmas!
OH check out the pic below when I was doing a follow and had a few minutes whilst they ducked into the loo! Loved it! You see some pretty random stuff with my job:)
You'd think people would want to take their kids out and be active to keep them amused whilst they aren't in school from 9 till 3.
BUT NO!
It's like "oh yeh, stay at home, you sleep in whilst some of us had to wake up a 5AM to be here! don't even come outside for more than 10 minutes, let your kids be bored at home all day...BAD DAD!" haha but full serious, entertain your kids during school holidays, gimme heaps of ammunition and opportunities to film you. Ta.
Sucks even more when a really active claimant isn't active on the last day of surveillance, you are in two minds of calling it quits and coming back the next day but then you're all like...man seriously I'm sick of watching you, hurry up and do something.
Tomorrow is a big day for me, it's going to take me close to two hours from base to the location I need to conduct surveillance in. So great for kilometres and paid driving hours :) I just hope the person is active, it's apparently meant to rain, but I hope it doesn't stop the person from being active. I have to be out there for 10 hours...well that's how many hours they've given me, and I wanna hit this out in one day. Will report back on how I go.
So Christmas is 4 days away! Actually am going to work in the morning, hope to get some footage of someone being drunk. Will be CLASSIC! Plus it's what my client wants, so Christmas with a BBQ a nice day (hopefully, it's Sydney and it's been raining every day this week so far) and a beer in hand...hopefully one too many and BAM! Here's bunny getting you paralytic for my client! Will be sweeeetttt!
One thing I'm definitely not liking in this state during this festive season is the traffic! Seriously like where did all you people come from? Normally I can cruise along the M5 motorway for at least half an hour before I hit some minimal traffic, these days it's like not even 10 minutes! Taking main roads isn't any better either, swear my GPS is going to have a mental break down and instead of telling me to turn left on King Georges Road it's gonna say "look woman just turn around and go home I can't be effed giving you short cuts cos this shizz is everywhere". My GPS and I have a love-hate relationship...every now and then I even tell him that we might have to break up, but then he talks in his English accent and I'm like awww ok I can keep you a lil longer Mr Garmin.
Glad to see a lot of you are reading mu blog and now looking up Bloggies! Yes they have a time and date stamp, and they are seriously awesome! Light weight, small and amazing. Hopefully they'll make more Sony Bloggies with a swivel head but with a better zoom range....hmmmm "Dear Sony People...."
Loving this week actually am finishing a lot of cases, especially ones that have been out on hold for a while due to clients wishes etc.
This week is so far panning out to be awesome! Hope you are all having a great week and hope you all have a very merry christmas!
OH check out the pic below when I was doing a follow and had a few minutes whilst they ducked into the loo! Loved it! You see some pretty random stuff with my job:)
Saturday, 17 December 2011
The Seventh one
Well the year is winding down and many of us are starting to relax and enjoy the festive season. This for me is pure gold! Whilst you're chillaxing with your beer and grub I'm filming you cooking that BBQ in the park...and you claim you can't leave your house pffft. Only down side to this gig is that the people who give us the work are winding down as well and taking breaks soooo less work, or even worse...NO communication. Communication is key when it comes to doing surveillance especially with the people who gave you the gig, they want a certain outcome so you need to communicate as much as possible and keep then constantly in the loop! Whilst this is necessary most of the time the client doesn't answer their phone or don't reply to emails...they make me hate life.
Dislike life very much at the moment right now, with a big work load it means I can't fly home for the holidays..one client even wants me to work Christmas Eve and boxing day...demanding much. My partner has gone back to his homeland for the holidays too, so our first chrissy isn't even spent together :( On a brighter note, just so I'm not alone these holidays I flew a family member up to hang with me. Which makes surveillance time go even quicker when you get to have endless fun conversations.
The weather in my location is helping make life easy, it's and Aussie summer and it's raining and cloudy! Love it! But no seriously sun if you are reading this, please stay away for just a little while longer.
OMG bought a new camera and I am in love! Seriously look up the old school Sony Bloggie, not the new version crap but the one with the swivel head. For all those investigators out there using a key chain camera...drop that crap aside and pick this up! Way easier to use, and you can actually see what you are filming and it is small and discreet. Why buy a fake camera phone, or pen or sunglasses when you can use this?! Ebay I'm fair sure is the only place you can still pick them up. So do yourself a favour and take a look.
I'm noticing that social network sites are my new best friend. Seriously with the new generation of telling ppl everything you are doing every minute of the day is like an invitation that says me "hey man so I'm making this easy for you, seriously, come find me" ...so cheers for that, keep up the good work! People these days are so free on giving up personal information, you'd be surprised what you can find once you start looking. The other day I found one claimant on YouTube! and I was like nice one! Cheers man you just made my job sooo much easier! I actually laughed when I watched it, since in it he contradicts EVERYTHING he was claiming, it was pure gold!
Well I hope if you are reading this that you have a Very Merry Christmas! Don't drink and drive...seriously it's bad. Get lots of prezzies, hug a lot of rellies and get fat on good food!
Enjoy the festive season ppl!
Bunny
xx
Dislike life very much at the moment right now, with a big work load it means I can't fly home for the holidays..one client even wants me to work Christmas Eve and boxing day...demanding much. My partner has gone back to his homeland for the holidays too, so our first chrissy isn't even spent together :( On a brighter note, just so I'm not alone these holidays I flew a family member up to hang with me. Which makes surveillance time go even quicker when you get to have endless fun conversations.
The weather in my location is helping make life easy, it's and Aussie summer and it's raining and cloudy! Love it! But no seriously sun if you are reading this, please stay away for just a little while longer.
OMG bought a new camera and I am in love! Seriously look up the old school Sony Bloggie, not the new version crap but the one with the swivel head. For all those investigators out there using a key chain camera...drop that crap aside and pick this up! Way easier to use, and you can actually see what you are filming and it is small and discreet. Why buy a fake camera phone, or pen or sunglasses when you can use this?! Ebay I'm fair sure is the only place you can still pick them up. So do yourself a favour and take a look.
I'm noticing that social network sites are my new best friend. Seriously with the new generation of telling ppl everything you are doing every minute of the day is like an invitation that says me "hey man so I'm making this easy for you, seriously, come find me" ...so cheers for that, keep up the good work! People these days are so free on giving up personal information, you'd be surprised what you can find once you start looking. The other day I found one claimant on YouTube! and I was like nice one! Cheers man you just made my job sooo much easier! I actually laughed when I watched it, since in it he contradicts EVERYTHING he was claiming, it was pure gold!
Well I hope if you are reading this that you have a Very Merry Christmas! Don't drink and drive...seriously it's bad. Get lots of prezzies, hug a lot of rellies and get fat on good food!
Enjoy the festive season ppl!
Bunny
xx
Tuesday, 29 November 2011
The Sixth One
Ok so I know what you are thinking.....
And it's probably something along the lines of "so this chick sits in a car pretty much all day everyday...do investigators get fat?"
The answer to that question is of course; some of us. Many investigators get comfortable and lazy sitting in their cars and find it all too easy to just go through the drive-thru of the nearest maccas...and since this is NSW we also have those terribly delightful Krispe Kremes....I assume most peoples worst enemy. However there are some of us (including myself just FYI) that make sure we don't consume too many carbs on the job and keep up a regular gym routine. Right now I am pretty much sore all over! I'm new to the gym but am so far enjoying it...especially since it is air conditioned!! Some people think that being able to work in a car all day means that I can run my air con....this is of course not the case, I'm not stupid. If I run my air con all day or even turn my engine on nosey neighbours get involved...and I do not want this. So instead I sit in a car, with the windows wound down a little bit and watch and wait. Believe me time feels like it drags when you start to sweat and cook inside your car. So going into a large air conditioned room is like a fresh of breath air.
You can probably tell from reading this that I am not going to enjoy summer...I will seriously hate life.
So we had a training day for Investigators sometime last week (obviously won't mention days or companies) but here's what I learnt;
And it's probably something along the lines of "so this chick sits in a car pretty much all day everyday...do investigators get fat?"
The answer to that question is of course; some of us. Many investigators get comfortable and lazy sitting in their cars and find it all too easy to just go through the drive-thru of the nearest maccas...and since this is NSW we also have those terribly delightful Krispe Kremes....I assume most peoples worst enemy. However there are some of us (including myself just FYI) that make sure we don't consume too many carbs on the job and keep up a regular gym routine. Right now I am pretty much sore all over! I'm new to the gym but am so far enjoying it...especially since it is air conditioned!! Some people think that being able to work in a car all day means that I can run my air con....this is of course not the case, I'm not stupid. If I run my air con all day or even turn my engine on nosey neighbours get involved...and I do not want this. So instead I sit in a car, with the windows wound down a little bit and watch and wait. Believe me time feels like it drags when you start to sweat and cook inside your car. So going into a large air conditioned room is like a fresh of breath air.
You can probably tell from reading this that I am not going to enjoy summer...I will seriously hate life.
So we had a training day for Investigators sometime last week (obviously won't mention days or companies) but here's what I learnt;
- What I do pretty much doesn't help in the long run.
- It only helps close or open cases for large clients
- Apparently communication is key
- In regards to the above point- they obviously need to tell this to their employees
- Communication on my end is constant...especially with a telephone message or email (never get replies)
- Mentos lollies are addictive
- Jelly beans make an awesome gift (you eat them through the boring lectures)
- I'm probs the only female under the age of 30 working for my company.
So as you can see I really didn't learn much, nothing applied to my "area" of work. What I did learn though is that I am so effing glad I do not work "factual Investigation" it seems like such a head case.
Well this sore investigator is signing off for an early night, lemme know what you have learnt this week :)
Bunny
xx
Thursday, 24 November 2011
The Fifth One
Today, for lack of a better word...was weird.
I over slept...which is a massive "NO NO" so I seriously had to rush and double check I hadn't left base without the video camera (note to all investigators buy big loud alarm clocks). After a mad dash through lots of traffic I still managed to arrive on time (skills!)...but I guess before I start to say how good I felt, I was walking on level 1 in the WRONG hospital! Who in their right mind puts a public and a private hospital, named the same thing right next to each other?! Clearly I am still getting used to this state.
A mad dash later and I'm walking the halls of level 1 in the right hospital :) Then my phone rings....it's my client.
The claimant I am meant to spot hasn't turned up, yet. So client informs me I am able to go up and talk to the rehab providers and basically have a one on one chat in the claimant and what they are after.
So it's safe to say when you are in a doctors room when you are not there to get a check up it feels pretty weird, it's also weird discussing someone other than yourself to a doctor(slash)lady who provides rehabilitation. You actually even freak out when you are led to a small office where you sit and then dive under a chair when you see the guy you are meant to catch walking into the rehab suite. I felt pretty stupid after I realised it was two-way glass :) It is so weird being able to stand up and film and watch your claimant when you are no more that a metre away from their face! I was able to watch him as he sat staring at a computer screen, you can realise how boring this was so went down stairs and waited in the coffee shop whilst he "did his thing". An hour or so later and he was exiting the elevator on the ground floor. I was able to follow him to his car and get his rego number. Then going to my own car I departed...protocol after this is to genuinely return home with them and watch them go inside or quite possibly get up to something else. Me being the douche that I am and showing how completely unfamiliar I am with the area took the wrong exit and found myself having to drive for an extra 25km before I could even perform a U-Turn. I was seriously hating life.BUT I still managed to get to the claimants residence, and lucky for me he was home, and with the way I drive...well he wouldn't have had time to do much else besides leave and go home.
After that boring escapade I got to go to another hospital and await for a male worker to leave on his bicycle. They have given me a photo of the male, and have told me he exits on a certain street. This street however is quite possibly the busiest street in the suburb. So I hang around and sure enough my gut instincts were correct and I had absolutely no luck getting the male. I would love to know how clients get their information, because if it is collected from the claimants then they should know by now that they all lie.
Seriously if anyone claiming any sort of injury or injustice or anything, it works out better for you if you just tell the truth. If you lie, I'll catch you out and then you'll hate me...when really you should be hating yourself.
Anyway I'm side tracking here, I ended up going to his house and seeing if he had possibly all ready made it home. To double check I walked around his apartment block. This is when the nosey neighbours come out...except today it was quite possible his mum! She asked if I was lost or needed help, so me being the young believable female I am played the "frantic" card and pleaded to her if she had seen my lost dog...she hadn't of course but permitted me to keep looking around the complex. Fake tears for the win!
I left a short while later, I get the gut feeling that he doesn't live with his mum and just has it as his postal address...I'll catch him though.
Well ta-ta for now
Bunny
xx
I over slept...which is a massive "NO NO" so I seriously had to rush and double check I hadn't left base without the video camera (note to all investigators buy big loud alarm clocks). After a mad dash through lots of traffic I still managed to arrive on time (skills!)...but I guess before I start to say how good I felt, I was walking on level 1 in the WRONG hospital! Who in their right mind puts a public and a private hospital, named the same thing right next to each other?! Clearly I am still getting used to this state.
A mad dash later and I'm walking the halls of level 1 in the right hospital :) Then my phone rings....it's my client.
The claimant I am meant to spot hasn't turned up, yet. So client informs me I am able to go up and talk to the rehab providers and basically have a one on one chat in the claimant and what they are after.
So it's safe to say when you are in a doctors room when you are not there to get a check up it feels pretty weird, it's also weird discussing someone other than yourself to a doctor(slash)lady who provides rehabilitation. You actually even freak out when you are led to a small office where you sit and then dive under a chair when you see the guy you are meant to catch walking into the rehab suite. I felt pretty stupid after I realised it was two-way glass :) It is so weird being able to stand up and film and watch your claimant when you are no more that a metre away from their face! I was able to watch him as he sat staring at a computer screen, you can realise how boring this was so went down stairs and waited in the coffee shop whilst he "did his thing". An hour or so later and he was exiting the elevator on the ground floor. I was able to follow him to his car and get his rego number. Then going to my own car I departed...protocol after this is to genuinely return home with them and watch them go inside or quite possibly get up to something else. Me being the douche that I am and showing how completely unfamiliar I am with the area took the wrong exit and found myself having to drive for an extra 25km before I could even perform a U-Turn. I was seriously hating life.BUT I still managed to get to the claimants residence, and lucky for me he was home, and with the way I drive...well he wouldn't have had time to do much else besides leave and go home.
After that boring escapade I got to go to another hospital and await for a male worker to leave on his bicycle. They have given me a photo of the male, and have told me he exits on a certain street. This street however is quite possibly the busiest street in the suburb. So I hang around and sure enough my gut instincts were correct and I had absolutely no luck getting the male. I would love to know how clients get their information, because if it is collected from the claimants then they should know by now that they all lie.
Seriously if anyone claiming any sort of injury or injustice or anything, it works out better for you if you just tell the truth. If you lie, I'll catch you out and then you'll hate me...when really you should be hating yourself.
Anyway I'm side tracking here, I ended up going to his house and seeing if he had possibly all ready made it home. To double check I walked around his apartment block. This is when the nosey neighbours come out...except today it was quite possible his mum! She asked if I was lost or needed help, so me being the young believable female I am played the "frantic" card and pleaded to her if she had seen my lost dog...she hadn't of course but permitted me to keep looking around the complex. Fake tears for the win!
I left a short while later, I get the gut feeling that he doesn't live with his mum and just has it as his postal address...I'll catch him though.
Well ta-ta for now
Bunny
xx
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