Originally posted by StarOfAfrica2
...and then convinced 2 employees to let her in past the security door. If they would have just shut the door on her even, she would have been stopped. Idiots.
see that part spooks me.
i don't know abuot the rest of you, but i have had alot of places i worked with security doors. there was a time as a contractor i had access to almost every major building in downtown milwaukee. i even had access to service elevators / areas restricted to normal employees.
where i work now i have access to 95% of the building (a hospital). the only areas i can not walk right into are where drugs are kept, the morgue, the board room, and the actual rooms surgery is performed (even there i can go into the area and stand right outside the door, as long as i put on the appropreiate gowns / masks / slippers).
in all these places, especially downtown, there have been countless times i badged through a door, and someone followed. i was never given a security protocol, restrictions, or anything. i have no clue who was allowed where, or who worked where. it was just routine. i know that is not the norm, or is it?
every day i go out for a smoke, and the door to get back in is badge access only. there is usually 10-15 people out there at any given time, people going in / out. over 1/2 the time i don;t even need to use my badge, i just follow someone in, or go in as someone is coming out. some of the people i know, they know me... others i have no clue who they are. personally i let my badge be read even if the door is open, just for my own sake (kind of justifying i am legit to go through this door if security is asking).
this also happens going into and out of some of the "secured" areas of the hospital. i see it every day, people going into the ER and i don't know if they are "allowed".
there have been instances in the world where someone is in the ER, and someone comes in to harm that person / finish the job, whatever. there actuall was an attempt here a few years back i hear.
companies spend all this money on this "security" for basically peace of mind for simple minds is all. not a week after 9/11 i walked into the biggest building in milwaukee, used a badge given to me to access the service elevator, went to the basement, opened the dock, and allowed access to a moving truck. it was a delivery truck for my company, delivering a machine, but who was i? there were no markings on the truck, there was no paperwork, nothing. the maching delivery went fine, but it spooked me then as to just how accessable our world is.
at that position i was not the regular contractor there. the normal person was on vacation. it was my job to fill in, and it was his badge i had. the security for the building didn't even know my name. they just let me pass, as long as my badge opened the door.
i could go on with experiances, but you get the idea.