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Some people confuse me with Mr. Tipton’s personal bodyguard, and when I
explain the difference, they usually wanna know which one of us is the other’s
boss. The answer is neither. We don’t even work in the same department. He’s
in Personal Support, and I’m in Facilities. His only responsibility is the
safety of the primary asset, and mine is to the Foundation as a whole, which
primarily means our headquarters. There aren’t as many on my team as I would
like, but the truth is that we’re not doing it alone. The Guides and Queuers
are trained in their own way, and are on the lookout for trouble and
vulnerabilities. Not all of us who actually are Security proper are even
armed, so the difference is sometimes logistical. I can’t order them around, I
guess that’s the thing, but the rest of the staff is always very aware and
prepared. I’m not sure there’s anyone who doesn’t know first aid and CPR, at
least. Everyone has a profound interest in protecting the organization, and
its primary. We didn’t apply to work here because the pay looked good, or it
was close to home, or because we couldn’t find anything else. You have to have
passion and heart, and the hiring managers know how to filter for that.
They’re directed and trained to look for it in interviews. It’s not too hard
to find when you pull in the kind of numbers that our Staff Services
department does. Everyone wants to work here, so choosing someone who will
fight to keep it safe and secure just sort of happens on its own. Look at me,
talking mostly about staffing, as if that’s my concern. I’m not worried about
them at all. I’m worried about the thousands of people wandering around the
building day in, day out. Everyone gets sick. It doesn’t matter if you’re
nice, mean, well-intentioned, or demonic; you might need a cure, and the
application process does not screen for personality traits. It operates
on a first come, first serve basis, so we’re pretty much the last and only
defense against genuine threats. We never know where they’re coming from, or
who might be perpetrating them. I’m not saying that there have been any major
on-the-ground issues, but we have to stay alert at all times. Mostly, we run
into patients who believe they’ve been cut in line, or they have a perception
that they’ve been waiting for longer than others. If someone has been sick
their whole life, waiting a couple hours to be free from it forever might seem
trivial, but the closer you get to the miracle, the more anxious you become.
That can lead to conflict, and you would be surprised at the demographics.
We’ve had to put a stop to a few fist fights, but we only made the decision to
call the police once. It was for someone who came in drunk because he was
celebrating the upcoming occasion. As far as I know, his name was flagged, and
he’ll never get his cure. This was early on, they turned the campground into a
dry one after that incident. We do track threats to Mr. Tipton’s life, and
there is one in particular that I’m very worried about, but we’ll handle it.
We always do.
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