Thieving numb sculls

[Deleted member 9648]

I had a laptop stolen just before Christmas. It was worth maybe £100, so £50 to them at most, but it had a few thousand pounds worth of EICR's for a laboratory on it which I had to redo.

There's bankers and politicians thieving from us from the top out in the open about it, and there's scum from the bottom creeping about nicking our stuff, then there's us working hard but getting shafted from both ends. What a life!

Can I suggest to everyone it is vital to back up files for precisely this reason. Might seem like rubbing salt into the wound here....but....
A very large site I do day to day repairs at had an EICR carried out over many months by another contractor using a subbie. At the end of the job he fecked off taking the laptop with him never to be traced again. The contractor had to flood the site with sparks for a couple of weeks to do the whole lot again before the agreed finish date. Cost them a fortune.
Getting a simple backup from the subbies laptop once a week would have saved all that.
If you do EICR's on a laptop and don't back up this WILL happen to you at some point.

 

[DPG]

Excellent advice. A lot of people don't think about backups until after the event.

 

[stummish]

@wirepuller I have my laptop set to auto backup to a cloud when it connects to wifi, problem was I'd changed my wifi password and forgot at change it on my laptop. Stupid mistake but I've learnt a lot from the experience!

 

[DPG]

Always keep your own backups on your own hard drive as well. External USB hard drives cost next to nothing.

 

[valleybilly]

Good tip if your going on holiday or away with robbery ' Dont leave any spare keys or cash at home in a draw etc / get a safe . We did this thinking nothing of it and the bastards got in the house and use our van and soft top to empty the house . Got the van back but the car got smoked . Luckily it was an Alfa so not too bad lol and the tools where in the house at the time so covered with house contents & More Than where great (would recommend the all day long) so be warned.

 

[DPG]

And don't put anything on facebook about going away on holiday. It's amazing how many people do this.

 

[ruston]

Up here the scroats would go into the working man's clubs to see who was in then go and rob the houses.
They soon got sussed and were dished out Miners justice.

 

[Specialist]

Miners Justice is like Valleys justice, The best form of deterrent

 

[ruston]

A lot of them moved away to be honest . But with the demise of the Mines the town is full of toe rags . It is a shadow of it's former self.
The community does not exist anymore.

 

[Specialist]

It was exactly the same in the village where I was living, when the local pits closed.
The shops started closing, then other small businesses & finally the school. Nowadays the place is pretty dead, doesn't have even a pub or post office anymore.