So I'm working in the corporate sector (I hate the corporate sector). Although I quite like my current job, it's with a small firm and a boss who has employed me previously. The good thing about small companies is that they always have really good atmospheres and staff morale (in my experience).
This small company has an unusual policy of hand delivering scotch to their best clients every Christmas. So being the new guy I got to trek across the CBD with many bottles of scotch in the 34 degree heat. (I now enjoy scotch much less that I used to)
Several of the bottles had to be delivered to Barristers working up near North Quay. One particular barrister (a Queen's Counsel actually) I delivered a bottle to happened to be standing next to his secretary when I arrived. He politely thanked me and we shook hands and exchanged small talk. He than removed the bottle of scotch from the box and to my horror the electronic anti-theft tag was still attached to the bottle (Not one of the small ones eithe but a dirty great big one with a locking metal ratchet to go around the neck of the bottle).
Luckily all he said was, "That's rather unusual". To which I decided to feign ignorance and claim that, "I have no idea what that is". After some conjecture on the identity of the offending device I beat a hasty retreat. Upon inspecting the other undelivered bottles of scotch I discovered that all of the bottles still had their anti-theft tags attached.
Although despite the obvious potential for disaster this all ended well. The remaineder of the scotch was delivered with the antitheft tags in place, since removing them would damage the bottles and they don't prevent one from opening of the bottles. I also had a good laugh about this with some of the more senior guys at the office. They seemed to think it was pretty funny.
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