Personal disclaimer: Yes, I was working on a Saturday night. Please don't lecture me about it.
So I'm in my office, and it's about 10:00 p.m., and I hear the department doors unlock. And there's a man's voice. So I pop out of my office to see who it is, and there is a security guard walking from the other end of the hall, talking on his cell phone. I wave at him, and since he's staring straight in my direction, I figure he sees me.
I go back into my office and sit down. And the lights turn out. So I yell, "Hello, I'm in here!" And he says, "Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't realize anyone was still here." And proceeds to leave the department.
My thoughts on this are as follows:
(1) What is the point of doing a security sweep of a department when you only walk through about half of the department?
(2) Doesn't the fact that you're on your phone mean that your senses are not attuned to danger, should danger exist?
(3) Shouldn't you have seen the girl waving at you from down the hall?
(4) After having turned out the lights and having been informed that someone was still in the department, wouldn't it have been logical to walk down to that office just to make sure everything was ok? I mean, for all he knows, I could have been a student stealing sensitive university documents. I wasn't, but how would he know?
Makes me think of the old Oracle days when that one security guard (what was his name?) would hover over Amanda and me as we pasted up the paper at 6:00 a.m., amazed that we were getting so much work done because it was the most work he saw getting done all day. Quite telling, really.
5 comments:
sheesh. you're fiesty.
Sheesh. You're one to talk. :)
I'm not surprised by this one bit. ORU Security (or lack thereof) was the reason that I could wander the underground tunnels, upper levels of the LRC, and the roof outside the administrative offices without so much as getting a single warning from anyone. For goodness sake! We even set off an alarm and no one bothered us! I have been places on that campus where I should never have been. Good thing no one sees ORU as a terrorist target.
We won't even mention "Howard runs"...not, of course, that I would ever be involved in such a thing.
Let's not even talk about the ORU security guard who laughed at me when I asked him to escort me to my car as a precaution when "He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named" was still around.
Let's just say that Christie has hit the proverbial nail on the head with "Good thing no one sees ORU as a terrorist target."
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