If your workplace was so dangerous you had to pass by concrete barriers, officers in Kevlar bulletproof vests with assault rifles, and reporters sticking microphones in your face to ask, “Are you afraid?†in order to reach your cubicle, would you still show up?
That was the issue facing thousands of workers in New York, Washington and Newark on a Monday morning in early August, after their offices had been pinpointed as possible terrorist targets. Most shrugged off the warnings and trudged off to wait in line to be searched and scanned.