Lobby Thoughts #18

You understand the world and your place in it. God is personally looking out for you? Cool, I'm still working on it.

Management ignoring security is so common place as to be a cliché. 

See what happened to the CIA in the past 30 years.


Imagine your wife, daughter, Mom or husband worked here. wouldn't you like security to be effective at protecting them?

More prosaic:

Ma'am: Don't move! There is a creature on your head that I suspect is eating your brain! Opps, just your wig. Sorry, my bad.

Ma'am, yelling across 40 yds of lobby to  speak to your friend is entertaining but perhaps you can call your friend on your cell phone? or, god forbid, walk over there!

Car alarms: in the past year I have heard about 20 car alarms per day in our lot. NOT ONE of which was a break-in. 99.99% are your failure to operate a simple electronic alarm with a remote. Fascinating.



Our lobby has a public coffee station:
50 people will get coffee with no muss/no fuss. Then one person leaves a mess that looks like 50 people had been there.

Each day, someone, standing next to the coffee station, will walk across the lobby and ask me "Any coffee left?" I put my hands to my heads like the Amazing Kreskin and say "I am feeling the presence of coffee. Try it out."

Got tea?, Hot chocolate? Decaf?, French roast? Donuts?, cookies?  Well why not?, XYZ store has them! You better talk to your boss! I'll take my business elsewhere!  "Yes, Ma'am!, please do"

 Digging through the cabinet where the coffee supplies are stored...filling your purse with sugar and creamer...priceless! "Ma'am please put that stuff back". "But its free isn't it?"
Ah, not any more, Ma'am! that will be $300.00 if you want to keep it.

We've got a bug! I watched one guy put 12 sugars in one 8 oz. cup of coffee and drink it down quickly.