Lobby Thoughts #23

Security is not important...until it is.

We don't mind when you ignore us, we know you have your own problems.

A guard I worked with used to ask ONLY one person for ID when entering the building. It was the CEO. His reasoning was that the CEO would then know we check IDs. Idiot, he saw you had singled him out.

Very bad people do exist. Sadistic and psychopathic. Not just in fiction. We work to stop these folks from hurting you...unless you eagerly volunteer for it! [If you do meth, you will eventually met these creatures and it will be painful or fatal.]

Emotional Intelligence and Emotional Thinking are subjects worthy of study.

We have a bank of computers for use by the public. They are for online purchasing of in-house vendors' products. If I stand in front of computer station 6 for example, inevitably some one will need to use just that terminal, rather than the empty terminals 1-5 or 7-10. This is the pathetic need of some people to make an impact in their life by "bearding the tiger in its den" and showing that they can get the "scary guard" to do their bidding. Sad creatures. In real conflicts they are mushrooms.
Posturing does not mean you have skills and  only works against  people who let their fears rule them.


Some few of us are not ruled by fear of others. We are instead looking at suki (隙 ), as we smile.

You can be right, or you can be employed. Rarely both.

When a guard speaks people do not really listen. They have dismissed what ever you may say before they turn on their brain...they expect stupidity. However most folks never turn on their brain, so don't take it personally.

I have stood near senior executives who, knowing the guard is within hearing, will still share confidential information with their assistant. To prevent the guard from understanding, they will use their sophisticated English vocabulary and then look hard at the guard to see if they understood. Nekulturny. 
Some of us can control our facial expressions or simply don't care about your games; therefore no tells.

 We are happy to avoid your petty Machiavellian corporate games. Sometimes being beneath your notice is just what we want. We are the invisible men. Some of us are bored by your machinations. Your will-to-power is just mental illness, similar to S&M games. I have lost jobs because I did not allow an exec to use me to further their petty plans...there are plenty of malleable folks out there for you to use. Leave me alone to do my job.


Rudeness is not a skill. It is an absence of skill...a public display of social incompetence and mental weakness, not toughness or being "above" others.