I was stopped leaving the office today at lunch time on my way down to the cafe. The reason I was stopped was because I was carrying my laptop under my arm and was planning on writing up a couple of small blog posts while I was down there. After assuring them that it was indeed my property (actually its Readify property) I was allowed to go – strangely it the .NET user group stickers from the MSDN Connections program that was the proof they needed (go figure).

Anyway – it got me thinking about employees and theft, but also trust more generally. It seems to me that there is something seriously wrong when you can’t trust your employees.

I know I know I’m living in a fantasy world – but really, there has to be something seriously wrong with your hiring processes of you can’t filter out the riff-raff, and this is before we even get to raw competency. You know whats sadder? For the most part we accept it as the norm.