Weird Day at WorK Today

BlackDog · 03-26-2010, 08:23 PM

I work in the corporate headquarters of a Fortune 500 company. We own a good-sized 5 story building in the Minneapolis suburbs. Today our building was on "limited lock down." Evidently an employee had been let go, and threatened violence. He had also struck someone, drawing blood, when he was escorted from the building. The two main hallways on the first floor are roughly "T" shaped, with the main doorway at the base of the "T", and two smaller key-card activated doorways at each end of the top of the "T". The company security locked the two smaller doors and inactivated the key-card readers, and had a guard at the main door verifying people before they could enter.

I suppose, sadly, this is the world we live in these days, but it seemed odd that there was evidently enough risk to take these measures. Thankfully nothing happened, and the company will be taking more permanent measures in the future to improve access to the building.

03-26-2010, 08:23 PM	#1
BlackDog Gonna make you groove... Join Date: Oct 2008 First Name: Warren Location: Minneapolis, MN Posts: 2,468 Trading: (19)	Weird Day at WorK Today I work in the corporate headquarters of a Fortune 500 company. We own a good-sized 5 story building in the Minneapolis suburbs. Today our building was on "limited lock down." Evidently an employee had been let go, and threatened violence. He had also struck someone, drawing blood, when he was escorted from the building. The two main hallways on the first floor are roughly "T" shaped, with the main doorway at the base of the "T", and two smaller key-card activated doorways at each end of the top of the "T". The company security locked the two smaller doors and inactivated the key-card readers, and had a guard at the main door verifying people before they could enter. I suppose, sadly, this is the world we live in these days, but it seemed odd that there was evidently enough risk to take these measures. Thankfully nothing happened, and the company will be taking more permanent measures in the future to improve access to the building. __________________ "We live in the good of this."