competing voices

[noelle_du_lac]

I was grumpy again this morning, there's all this silly bullshit going on again at work, and to add to that, I didn't get my coffee right away. I just need to stop letting myself take all this stuff so seriously and personally, it'll lead to an early death, ...maybe even mine. From a more objective viewpoint, it's just too ridiculous. No one in the front part of the office is willing to answer the doorbell when it rings (although we three in the "office back forty" have never had an issue with answering the back door), so the idea of unlocking the two main doors while people are in here was temporarily instated. Convenient solution to the problem of lazy people thinking they are too important to do anything so menial as let someone in, right? Now everyone is freaking out because apparently we are in constant danger of impending attack, and leaving the doors unlocked during a normal work day would be an invitation to every violent psycho imaginable to enter and violate us all. One person actually brought up Virginia Tech as an example of "WHAT CAN HAPPEN" when we don't make "safety" a priority over all else. I'm thinking that a crazed gunman intent on shooting us up would not be stopped by a deadbolted glass door. Never mind the fact that people who have legitimate business in our office often can't even find us, and we are only a handful of people in a relatively low-profile organization.

I suspect a brief stint living and working in Baghdad would put some things in perspective for these folks.

Ah well, the voice of reason will always be drowned out by shouts of panic.