{"id":14745,"date":"2016-04-24T15:00:59","date_gmt":"2016-04-24T20:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=14745"},"modified":"2016-04-24T15:00:59","modified_gmt":"2016-04-24T20:00:59","slug":"street-smarts-top-10-codes-every-co-should-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/24\/street-smarts-top-10-codes-every-co-should-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Street Smarts: Top “10 Codes” Every CO Should Know"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stores, hospitals, entertainment venues, and other places where the public are together in large numbers, use secret codes to pass information between store employees. These are meant to be a secret as they don\u2019t want to alarm the non-staff members or alert someone (like a thief) to the fact that they have been noticed. Many stores have their own codes \u2013 for example WalMart, but there are a number that are nearly universal in application. This is a list of ten secret codes that may prove useful to you in future, or at least dispel any curiosity you may have if you hear them.<\/p>\n

there are a number that are nearly universal in application. This is a list of ten secret codes that may prove useful to you in future, or at least dispel any curiosity you may have if you hear them.<\/p>\n

10. Police Ten Codes<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Ten Codes are a list of codes used by law enforcement officers in the United States. They are available on the Internet which would make them seem inappropriate for this list, but a large number of police departments have tried to have them made illegal for distribution, so they deserve a mention. The codes were developed initially in 1937 and were expanded in 1974. The California Police use a variety of extra codes which predated the ten codes. For example, a 187 (one eighty-seven) means homicide. In the ten codes system, a 10-31 means that a crime is in progress, a 10-27-1 means homicide (the 10 is usually not said when it is a three-number sequence), and a 10-00 (ten double-zero) means \u201cofficer down \u2013 all patrols respond.Wikipedia has a complete list of the police codes here.<\/a><\/p>\n

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9.\u00a0<\/span>Professional Codes<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"Pebkac\"<\/a><\/p>\n

In computer support, a variety of codes can be used when referring to a customer. One of these codes has become fairly well known on the internet: PEBKAC (Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair) but there are a variety of others that are lesser known. One of these is used when reporting a fault which has been fixed: \u201cThe fault was a PICNIC\u201d (problem in chair \u2013 not in computer), or \u201cID 10 T Error\u201d \u2013 ID 10 T is, of course, IDIOT. Let us hope that you never see this noted down on your file when a serviceman is fixing your computer.<\/p>\n

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8.\u00a0<\/span>Time Check<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\"Time-Bomb\"<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Time Check (usually taking a similar form to: \u201cTime check: the time is 12:00\u201d) can be a code in stores for a bomb alert. It alerts the staff to follow the bomb procedure, which can be to either try to locate any suspicious packages, or to prepare to get the hell out. If you hear a time check in a store, it is probably a good idea to start moving toward the exit. Surprisingly \u2013 and shockingly, the majority of stores that use this code actually expect their staff to search for the bomb \u2013 certainly an aspect of the job that the majority of teenaged checkout operators weren\u2019t expecting when they signed up I am sure.<\/p>\n

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Stores, hospitals, entertainment venues, and other places where the public are together in large numbers, use secret codes to pass information between store employees. These are meant to be a secret as they don\u2019t want to alarm the non-staff members or alert someone (like a thief) to the fact that they have been noticed. Many…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[398,2863,10],"tags":[5343,11367,11368],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14745"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}