After working for a number years at a finance company in a large city, I got a job as a loans officer with a bank, with a branch in a small city of 45,000. As an officer of the branch, I was to have the combination to the vault. The manager advised me that corporate policy was that the combination was changed with each change in personnel. We would need the ‘combination puller’ to accomplish this, but this important piece of equipment was at another branch in a small town approximately 25 miles away.
He sent me to that branch in another town to pick up the ‘combination puller’ and bring it back with me. I had a pleasant drive in the country to the other branch. I went in and introduced myself, asking for the Manager. I asked him if I could bring back the ‘combination puller’ back to my branch. He then asked me when I had started with the bank.
The good thing is that I got lunch paid for and saw some very pretty countryside. Every time there was a new hire, they were asked to travel and retrieve the ‘combination puller’.
Like sending the new guy on the boat to get some “Relative Bearings”