Not the corporate location I’ve worked the past 30 years. Guests and visitors for any reason are almost without fail escorted at all times. I can think of 1 location only where they didn’t require an escort and that was me doing an audit to see if they could be a supplier. one of my findings, but hardly the only issue.
Suppliers - with sourcing, supplier quality or manufacturing types
customers - with marketing, sales types, some senior management
Even family visits the family members or their admins escort them
Some aren’t as tight as others. DOD suppliers you get an escort even to the bathroom. Med device not so much, but even there I’ve been asked what I was doing when I stopped to read a board during the obligatory tour. Sucker for charts.
Contractors and consults hold local badges if they are there for extended times but aren’t considered visitors or guests and don’t hold those IDs.
“DOD suppliers you get an escort even to the bathroom”
Bingo.
We ‘gave’ contractors guest ID’s. These were ‘other’ corporate vendors who were licensed/bonded/insured/etc. They were allowed ID’s that let them do exactly what they were there to do and go where they were supposed to go.
But they had to display the badge at all times.
Ie, these were ‘known’ quantities.
Everyone else had to be fetched from the lobby and returned once they were done. And yes, escorted to the restroom.
IF he’s there unescorted he’s gotten access. Which is my whole point.
Why.
Have you known someone who was fired to return and get granted an ID for access w/o being rehired? I have not.
Let’s hope this is FUD. And wrong.
I have heard that feds can return as contractors a year or so after they retire. Did he retire or was he actually fired? I begin to suspect he simply retired and is back as a contractor.