OMG PANIC!
In post 9/11 America, security is the new catchword. Everyone's focusing on how to make things more secure and how to survive if Horrible Calamity X happens. I'm all for emergency preparedness, but there comes a point when the discussion is no longer rational -- If a dirty bomb goes off, sealing part of your office off with plastic sheeting and duct tape isn't going to make that much of a difference. It's simply not realistic to think that's an effective strategy to keep yourself from getting irradiated.
Now, in order to make my suburban office building complex safer, we're going to be issued new security cards for the building. New photo security cards. New photo security cards that we'll have to use to enter the building every single time. Photo cards that we'll wave in front of a reader that can't possibly tell if the person in the photo matches the person holding the card. It seems like a horrible waste of time and money. We already have security guards and visitors are required to sign in. It would make more sense for us to use our existing security cards to activate the elevators (something we already do on the weekends). I guess I just don't get the need to be 'doing something' especially when 'doing something' isn't particularly effective and costs a lot of money.
