So, when you work at IN*SOURCE, do your clients bring toddlers to your place of employment and let them run around for two or three or ten minutes, disturbing not just you but everyone else within earshot? And what would have happened if this child was injured while playing with the cubicle walls or the computer or the office chair? Do you think you (or someone else who is more litigious than you) might blame SSA for some kind of negligence? Anytime there is any kind of accident at SSA or the police or paramedics are called, the guards and the management have to complete long complicated incident reports and have to explain everything up several chains of command. And they have to explain what SSA could or should have done to prevent the incident.

The guard may not have acted like a pre-school teacher, but government offices are places for adults to conduct business and it is your job to keep your children under control or take them out.