Jun13

secure or insecure?

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as I was pulling through a parking lot

a paper shredding service truck

was parked in front of a school

not an unusual sight at the end of a year.

what was unusual

was when the two young men

who were the mobile ‘shredders’

suddenly began frantically chasing

huge swaths of paper

all over the parking lot

the wind had  picked up

just as they were carrying out

these giant piles of paper

to feed into their shredder

  in an instant

they were running around

grabbing and gathering up

all the paper

caught up in the swirl

I was driving

 not able to catch an action photo

but wow, were they moving fast

like on those old game shows

where you just had a short time

to grab as much cash as you could.

soon they were back by the truck

with armloads

but I thought about

how ironic it was

they had one job

they came to shred papers

for security reasons

but had almost lost many of them

to a blustery wind

with the potential of them

heading to parts unknown

all around the city

good thing they were young and athletic

soon walking back to their truck

with armloads of paper.

getting back to the work of shredding

security restored

perhaps that’s one of the job requirements

for just this very situation

the people doing the job must be secure

or at least respond in a very secure way.

—

“when you work with someone who is not insecure, that makes you confident. “

-shweta tripathi”
—

Here is their company motto on their website:

“***** Document Destruction is a professional shredding service based in ### MI, specializing in secure and confidential document disposal. With a focus on protecting sensitive information, **** Document Destruction offers reliable and efficient shredding solutions for businesses and individuals.”

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  1. We had a famous incident here where a senior officer in National Security left his briefcase on top of a car and drove off, forgetting it was there. It was found, and the sensitive papers inside were sent to a national newspaper. They didn’t print them, but carried the story of how they were lost. We never found out if the man involved lost his job.
    Best wishes, Pete.

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    • so crazy, and don’t forget, we had our head of pentagon and national security officers recently share military attack plans on an unsecured group chat with a major magazine writer

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  9. Good work, young chasers/catchers, and Beth, for your capture of the moment. All that was needed in your brain was that soundtrack music of our past that often accompanied frantic scurrying in cartoons and TV shows!

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  10. The Chaos Theory at work! Who could have foreseen a strong wind appearing at the same moment they walk out with the paper? And now, did they get it all? What consequence will that lead to? I definitely say insecure. I love what you see, Beth (even with your glasses off.) 😊

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