John writes:

> We both surmised that certain government employees probably get physically
>  searched upon leaving work everyday.  Is anyone aware of physical searches
>  in the private sector?

Virtually no one working at government laboratories gets physically searched.
I've never heard of anyone getting searched. If they were, it would be an
indication of their last day on the job. I used to work at a nuclear weapons
laboratory, where there was a radiation detector that you had to pass through
coming and going out of the building, but that was about it.

If you can't be trusted to work in that environment, you would never have
been given clearance to begin with.

When I changed from one secure job to another, first working for the Bureau
of Naval Weapons, then for the Army's Missile Flight Safety Directorate at
White Sands to WSMR's Nuclear Weapons Effects Laboratory, each time I had to
undergo a new security clearance, which meant six to eight months of downtime,
unable to do any real work.

During the second of those times, I built a raft of bookcases and learned to
program.

Wirt Atmar

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