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<blockquote data-quote="Prestwick" data-source="post: 305217"><p>Surprisingly no, at least not our staff when we go abroad as usually we just treat it as a jolly (i.e. get through the tour and business ASAP and then hit the pub) and in any case we leave that kind of thing to the security services. French & Isreali visitors who (as far as we know) were genuine and really did try it on at every level. </p><p></p><p>Let me give you two examples. One an American delegation from a major US defence contractor and another from a French contractor. </p><p></p><p>The former quite happily went where they were told, were more than happy to go through the basic tour, were happy to stand at the door and wait for everyone to switch their screens off, put work away, etc and were more interested in the nice buffet lunch. By the way we were working on a major project with them at the time.</p><p></p><p>The latter were basically some of the sneakiest I've seen and they spent most of their time trying to wander off, tail back so they could go peek at stuff, try and talk to staff, walk quickly into rooms without waiting for us so they could get a look at what we were doing, tried to insist that we'd show them round other areas, ask a bazillion questions which they knew we weren't going to answer but wanted to ask anyway in case one of us would slip up. This list went on. It was exhausting just trying to keep up with them. It was hilarious when we suggested we go to the pub for lunch (like we usually do, y'know, being normal people and not trying to rape and pillage other nations for their state secrets 24/7) and this would get a reaction approaching angry bemusement because they were there simply to snoop and sneak about like secret squirrel.</p><p></p><p>And the thing was, we'd get people like these from French and Israeli companies most of the time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Prestwick, post: 305217"] Surprisingly no, at least not our staff when we go abroad as usually we just treat it as a jolly (i.e. get through the tour and business ASAP and then hit the pub) and in any case we leave that kind of thing to the security services. French & Isreali visitors who (as far as we know) were genuine and really did try it on at every level. Let me give you two examples. One an American delegation from a major US defence contractor and another from a French contractor. The former quite happily went where they were told, were more than happy to go through the basic tour, were happy to stand at the door and wait for everyone to switch their screens off, put work away, etc and were more interested in the nice buffet lunch. By the way we were working on a major project with them at the time. The latter were basically some of the sneakiest I've seen and they spent most of their time trying to wander off, tail back so they could go peek at stuff, try and talk to staff, walk quickly into rooms without waiting for us so they could get a look at what we were doing, tried to insist that we'd show them round other areas, ask a bazillion questions which they knew we weren't going to answer but wanted to ask anyway in case one of us would slip up. This list went on. It was exhausting just trying to keep up with them. It was hilarious when we suggested we go to the pub for lunch (like we usually do, y'know, being normal people and not trying to rape and pillage other nations for their state secrets 24/7) and this would get a reaction approaching angry bemusement because they were there simply to snoop and sneak about like secret squirrel. And the thing was, we'd get people like these from French and Israeli companies most of the time. [/QUOTE]
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