Chapter Eleven
That morning Fern woke up early while it was still dark and pumped up her bike tires. She knew her belt went into maintenance mode at 3 AM on Sundays to install updates and during that time the tracking would be offline. Ever since Sir had demanded all the office staff come back to site full time the canteen had been much busier and she had overheard someone from IT taking about the maintenance mode. Useful intelligence for the Union and a little bit of schadenfreude.
Fern had also heard that SirTech was due to transport a special package from a nearby SirTech warehouse to the main SirTech facility. Tanya had said that the security at the offsite warehouse was much more lax so it would be our only chance to get it. Earlier that week Tanya had sent an email attachment titled Story-Time.PDF.exe to head of IT who would be supervising the package. It was a long shot but the union hoped that the promise of smut would cause the normally tech savvy IT guru to let their guard down. The Story file contained a virus set to turn off the CCTV and door locks at exactly 4 AM this Sunday.
Fern rode to a small lay by where Tanya was waiting with a rented truck. Fern didn't have a driving license so Tanya had to use their ID to rent the truck.
"Did the virus work?" Asked Fern.
"They all loved it and emailed it round the office as we had hoped." Replied Tanya.
"It's a good thing everyone in the SirTech IT department disabled the porn blocks on the company network." Said Fern.
"Being horny makes you do dumb stuff sometimes!" Giggled Tanya.
Tanya and Fern set off in the truck to the SirTech warehouse when exactly at 4 AM the lights in the building seemed to all go out. They drove up to the gate but only one guard was on duty and luckily for them it was the grumpy one who never wants to talk. Tanya briefly waved coffee discount coupon that was vaguely badge shaped at the grumpy security guard and he waved them through. "I didn't think that'd actually work" said Tanya.
Tanya drove the truck up to the loading bay and they both got out. Fern hunted around with a torch looking for the button to open the roller door to the warehouse. They both then sneaked inside to get the package and a few minutes later returned dragging a large heavy box into the back of the truck.
"Well that make that look easier in movies" said Fern.
"Let's get out of here before the power goes back on" said Tanya.
The pair got back in the truck and left out the gate and sped away to the lay by where they had first met up.
"You'll have to take it from here, my belt update is nearly complete" said Fern.
Fern got back on her bike and rode away leaving Tanya, the truck, and the package still in the layby.
I wonder what was so special about that box wondered Fern.