ljplicease | When $work goes into lockdown for no reason

So today I get an email from the building manager saying we are under lockdown and we need to use our access keys to get in and out of the building. Usually when I hear the term “lockdown” it is in the context of some shooting somewhere, usually at some government building^[1]. Or maybe I have just been trained to think that living in the states for as long as I have. So my first notion is to do a google news search on the suburb in which we are located to see if anything is up. I'm not really afraid, but it doesn't hurt to do a little sleuthing. Nothing. After about half an hour we get word that an ex-employee was trying to re-enter the building. Not that I was terrified, but I feel like that could have been in the original email, or the email could have been worded better.

Only my next problem is that I have no way of getting back in the building if I leave, because of course I have misplaced my fob and have been going through the front door for the last few months, which will not be locked thanks to problem former employee. So I ask Angie for a new fob which costs me $40, which of course I don't have on me, and she's like “you really have to pay me” and I am like “you know where I sit, you can come break my legs if I don't pay”. Which hopefully wasn't taken by her to mean that I think she is a member of the mob. At least I can go get some lunch now that the rain has stopped.

We aren't technically government, but we are government contractors, and we are not to far from actual government workers in some actual government building somewhere