False Security

About 6 months ago the people who manage the office building where I work decided to put locks on the bathroom doors. It's a common practice, I know, but there are many things wrong with this idea and it's implementation in this particular case.

See, a female employee of ours (about 2 years ago) was in the middle of... doing her business... when she looked up and discovered a man watching her. Gross, I know. The situation was taken care of, the cops called, the guy taken into custody, etc, but the woman was pretty shook up about it. I don't know if the locks were a (very late) response to that incident or what, but let's imagine if the man wanted to hurt her instead of just watch her? Once that door closed behind her she'd be locked in the bathroom and help would be, at a minimum, delayed. (What if someone heard her scream, but didn't have a key!) I think we're all much safer WITHOUT the locks.!

That leads me to the implementation stuff:

• The bathrooms on the other side of the hall do not require a key.
• The locks on the doors to the Men's room and the Woman's room are the same.
• The keys for the bathrooms are the same as the key to get in the front door of the building.

So, I'm really confused about what they think they're accomplishing here. Anyone who can persuede the receptionist at the doctor's office down the hall for a key can use it to get into either bathroom or can pocket it and enter the building whenever they want (there's no alarm). Basically the building is less secure because of this locked bathroom idea. More proof that people in general are stupid. QED.