A long time ago when I first worked at Kawasaki, I was dispatched from another company. \u00a0Since I was a “dispatch worker” I wasn’t issued any kind of security clearance. \u00a0In fact I just had a goofy name badge that I was supposed to wear all day. \u00a0I think I wore it for the first year I worked there, and then I became familiar to everyone there and it was no longer necessary.<\/p>\n
At that time I always walked in the front entrance because I lacked the security clearance to go through the employee entrance. \u00a0Actually, this was kind of nice. \u00a0The front entrance is reserved for customers and that’s it – even vendors have to go around the back. \u00a0I would stride in there every morning at 8 a.m. and wave to the security guys, who got to know me well. \u00a0Then I flashed my goofy name badge to the receptionists working the desk each day (which was a little strange because they could certainly recognize me by sight).<\/p>\n
This lasted for about a year or so, and then one of the receptionists told me that I didn’t need to produce the badge anymore. \u00a0And eventually I started to go in the employee entrance with an actual security card.<\/p>\n
But the point of all this is that during this time I made a lot of good relationships with the receptionists and the security guards. \u00a0Now everywhere I go in the factory I’ve got a security guard calling out a greeting and being very friendly. \u00a0I think this is pretty handy – just about any problem that I might have would involve a security guard showing up. \u00a0It’s good to be a familiar face around there, especially considering there are about two thousand workers running around. \u00a0Sometimes it is good not to blend in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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