Organization Chat

[tr0nic]

3. According to my boss, the fedora is no longer necessary for the job, so no fedora.

I've personally decided on more of an MP1 Max Payne sort of look, whatever that's worth. Out of the fire (fedora) into the frying pan (pleated slacks & Hawaiian shirt).

Congrats! Do you have a baton initially? There's a house detective where I work that I'm friendly with, I remember one day when things were relatively quiet after we had had a lot of ugly protests and he was telling me about occasions he had to get high profile people to safety through crowds. He said he naturally can't take a gun out given the reaction it can cause or the possibility of someone taking it off him so he showed me the baton. I thought it was pretty small but didn't realise it extended like those toy plastic lightsabers Hasbro make. Thought it couldn't be that powerful so he hit me with it (not that hard but enough to feel it) and I couldn't believe the force of it.

Ah yes, the ASP expandable baton, you think "that can't be THAT effective" until you get schwacked with one. Got whacked in the thigh by some right wing instagram influencer during a protest back in 2020, shit bruises down to the bone.

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Initially though I'm generally just out here with a notebook and a pen. As an apprentice, I really shouldn't be in situations that may require any kind of weapon. The way the P.I. license process works in the US is that you have to apprentice under a licensed P.I. for at least five years, so everything I do I'm officially doing under my boss's license. Some things can't be covered by that, like use of force or certain areas of background checking. It's a gray area if I'm even able to testify in court if need be.

That said, the firm I work for has been hired to do VIP escorting in the past, so if I'm on a team doing that, or as backup for someone doing undercover work, then absolutely I will have one of these bad boys in the back.

Congratulations! Apprentice P.I is such a Sims sounding job so hope you promote just as easily as Sims as well.

Honestly at $35/hour to start it really is a Sims ass sort of job. Like I generally just ask people if they know anything about the case I'm working, collect a couple hundred bucks for the day, then go home. Kind of amazed that such a basic entry level job pays this well, but it is essentially hazard pay/trauma pay.

My first case that I'm actually working on right now is a missing person's case out of Manhattan & Brooklyn. 21 year old guy, early onset dementia from a bad head injury, went to visit his old apartment in Brooklyn alone and went missing. It's been like 17 days now, so the odds of a positive ending are very slim. If and when he is recovered, it will most likely be me finding the body, which will have been sitting out in the hot summer sun for over two weeks. Don't know if that's worth $35/hour yet, but I'm definitely going to find out at some point.

BUT, I'm still optimistic. 17 days and nobody has called in a dead body in Manhattan/Brooklyn/Bronx that matches his description. Say what you want about the US right now, we're not at the point where corpses are just left in the street for days on end. So that means he's still out there somewhere, afaik.