This story may not seem quite interesting to any of you (Mitchell Wal-Mart employees upset bomb threat didn't lead to evacuation) but I suggest you read Bruce Schneier's comments on the story here : Wal-Mart stays open during bomb scare.
Who gets to make the decisions about what threats are serious and how to react to them? Can management disregard the recommendations of police officers and not evacuate? Is it acceptable that if it goes wrong, management can externalize the cost of the damage? Would it help that if management decides to go against the recommendation of government agencies, and certain damage occurs, that management has to absorb these costs?
I assume there will be little to no feedback on this issue from most of my readers, but I urge you to think about it, because it'll affect you sooner or later.
Comments
Frightening!
Posted by: Hilda at December 29, 2006 9:03 PM
What exactly is frightening, Hilda? The fact that they didn't evacuate, or that Bruce Schneier states that finally security trade-offs are being made on a rational level?
Posted by: ServMe at December 29, 2006 11:08 PM
What was frightening to me is the rashness that has been dealt with in situations that could have been of vital importance. And that for pure commercial reasons. On the other hand, what was the best decision in this case? Evacuating could have costs lives as well because of the panic. Brrr...
Posted by: Hilda at December 31, 2006 12:32 AM