My present place of employment has two entrances: one for full-time employees and one for the public (and contractors). The main (public) entrance requires that everyone pass through a metal detector and have their belongings x-rayed. The employee entrance does not. (In fact there's also an employee bypass at the main entrance.)
If you're a contract employee like I am and arrive before 8, however, you are allowed to enter the building using the employee entrance because the main entrance isn't staffed until then. Since I typically get to work around 7:15, I am allowed to use the employee entrance and enter the building like a real boy. On those rare instances when I arrive after 8 however, I automatically become a potential terrorist and am forced in the front door, where I must pass through the metal detector and have my bag scanned.
So this means anyone can bring a weapon into the building before 8 am (or if they're a full-time employee any time of the day or night), but apparently not afterward? Am I crazy, or is this profoundly, mind-numbingly stupid?
I feel safer, don't you?
And in case you're wondering, anyone can leave through that entrance…