Are backpacks that innocent?<\/p>\n
Madonna Wulur's letter (Dec. 15, 1999) subscribing to the
\ncontents of Bruce Emond's (Dec.10, 1999) has set me thinking
\nabout the incident in a shop at Plaza Senayan (Dec.8, 1999).<\/p>\n
Given the rigid and unsympathetic stance most security guards
\nlike to take -- apparently out of a mistaken perception of their
\nduty -- people often wrongly see them as villains. I think myself
\nthat they often overact in simple matters. In banks they like to
\njump on customers who jump the queue. Have they nothing better to
\ndo?<\/p>\n
But I can well imagine the strain of security guards in
\nshopping malls where they have to supervise wily shoplifters and
\nthrongs of idle sight-seeing schoolchildren. May be the
\n\"innocent\" 10-year-old boy involved in the \"accidental\" knocking
\nof a figurine was one of those schoolchildren.<\/p>\n
If you sometimes sit in a city bus you may have experienced
\nthat schoolchildren with backpacks often let their bag swing onto
\nyour face. They seem to be oblivious that their bag enters
\nsomebody else's private space. No apology is uttered in most
\naccidents.<\/p>\n
There is another side to the \"public humiliation\". The shop
\nassistant in charge of a department within the shop is
\nresponsible for any loss or damage of any article in his
\ndepartment. The Rp 200,000 would have been charged to him. If he
\ndoes not pay up, the management will deduct it from his salary.
\nEven if it is done in four installments, what will remain of his
\nmeager salary?<\/p>\n
S. HARMONO<\/p>\n
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