An afternoon early this week I received a call from one of the tenants, telling me that there was a stranger with dyed hair and a badly wounded eye claiming he was from so-and-so local courier company and that he had mistakenly delivered a document to my tenant last week. She was all worried but she managed to send the guy away and called me right away since she never did received anything from that courier company.
I immediately notified the guard on the lobby, described the person to him and asked him if he had seen such a guy came in and left the building. He said a guy fitted the description went up the building about 15 minutes ago and didn’t see him leave. I then told the guard to stop that man and question him should he came out of the building.
Right after I’ve talked to the guard, I called my tenants one by one to see if they had seen the man. Several did, several didn’t. From the information I got from the rest of the tenants, it looked as though the guy was about to leave the building if not already left. I called the guard again but no answer. I then got out of my office, about to go down to the lobby to see what had happened to the guard.
As soon as I opened my office door, the silly guard got out of the lift and was about to walk through the building! As soon as he saw me, he said he didn’t see the guy leaving the build yet. I thought to myself, man, how come guards never listen and stick to the instruction given to them?
I thought by then, which was some 15-20 minutes after the first report, the man must have left the building. When the guard got back down to the lobby, he realized the door to the staircase was left opened and the door alarmed was sounding……..
By then, I was pretty sure the guy had left the building, so I told the guard to go ask the guards of the adjacent buildings to see if they had seen the same man entering their buildings earlier, but they reported back that they didn’t see such a man in their’s.
I then thought maybe the guy was legit, otherwise he would have tried other buildings as well.
I called back all the tenants and informed them the guy should be gone already, but they should be on the look out and not to open their doors to any strangers. I also called the management company to have them put out a notice about this incident.
3 days later, there was a report in the paper that the police had caught a guy impersonating a courier staff, who had swiped a cell phone off the desk of one of the offices a couple of buildings down the road from ours. The original tenant that first reported the incident in our building to me earlier recognized the man in the paper to be the same man.
And I am just wondering…
Should I have been worrying about the image of our building, and therefore shouldn’t have informed the tenants at all?… hmmm…
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