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It takes a lot to build distrust in me. I am by nature a very trusting person. I trust people to know their jobs and to do them correctly. I trust people to be nice. I trust people to do the right thing.
Most of the time, I'm justified in behaving as if everyone is trustworthy.
But every now and then, someone comes along who destroys that trust. And once they do, it takes a very long time and a lot of effort on their part to rebuild it.
We have a new security service where I work. They aren't really that new since they've been stationed there for over 2 months now - more than long enough to learn our routines and get their act together. The first people they had in were good - they learned quickly, they were friendly, and they were willing to comply with our routines and rules. They quickly replaced these people with others who were far less efficient, and as soon as we had them up to speed, they were in turn replaced by others.
This third set is a mixed bag. The day shift person has finally made a slight turn-around and is doing better. I still resent that she takes up to 4 hours' worth of smoke breaks in a place of business that is smoke-free. I'd resent her taking up to 4 hours' worth of break whether she was smoking or not, the smoking is just gloss on it all. The Sunday night person is fantastic - smart, quick to learn, friendly, doesn't make the same mistake twice. I'd reluctantly trust the day person, whole-heartedly trust the Sunday night person. There's a rotating shift person whom I think is slow and on the stupid side, but I will give him that he rarely repeats a mistake, so yes, I'd trust him.
And then there's the one I already ranted about - who uses passive-aggressive techniques to slide out of doing his job. This morning, I caught him digging around my desk, looking for who knows what. He's the security guard! There's nothing at my desk that he would need. Nada. I've been slowly losing my patience with him. I've had reports that some of my co-workers suspect he's digging around in their areas, but we've had no proof it was him, or some other security guard. Today, I had proof he was doing it at one desk for real - mine. And if he's been doing this at my desk, the chances are high he was digging in other people's areas, too.
He, too, is a serious abuser of breaks - either he has a serious prostate problem, or he's procrastinating for long periods of time very frequently (like every half hour to an hour for at least 10-15 minutes each time) in the men's room.
I want the first group of people back we trained. I'll even take most of the ones we currently have, if we'd just convince the security agency to replace this one who is not trustworthy.
