It’s Terrible: A Newly Hired Security Guard Suddenly Made His Employer Bankrupt
by Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ”I’m sorry.”
For the next few days, the incident had formed part of the newspapers headlines – in the Radio/TV news and other tabloids. “I was not in my normal mind when I did it. I was probably in total delusion at that time because I’ve been on duty for three consecutive days without eating”, so he claimed. The news and media interviews immediately caught the attention of all existing security clients and at no time, these clients gradually terminated their contracts with the agency and looked for new security service providers. The security agency was forced to engage into amicable settlement with the aggrieved parties. It paid almost a million for the lives of the three innocent victims. It became the subject of investigation of the local authorities, and the worse, the pull-out of security guards from their original deployment due to the clients’ termination of contract suddenly sent the agency into total bankruptcy.
What is the moral lesson in this story?
- Never hire an irresponsible security In-charge who could not act in dispatch in an emergency situation.
- Double-check the mental records of the applicant and if necessary, personally check with the Neuropsychiatries and Drug Testing Center where he got the clearances.
- Do background check on new applicants and do assess his previous employment records.
- To SG John Doe, never tell a lie to the media.
- To the wife, don’t let your son catch you
- To the agency, try and try again.
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