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Liars are everywhere. And we all have to do our own duty (to ourselves) to spot it/set passwords/monitor bank receipts/ keep up to date/ etc.. No, it Doesn't make it right that there are so many con artists out there(and they should absolutely be held accountable) but in this case it’s their literal job to observe and hold to rules and maintain their sector: they can’t take that failure to hold to a rule in a reasonable way out on everyone else.
I try the ‘if this were a date’ metaphor to see who really is the irrational person in the situation.
This situation in dating would be like if a person went around to people saying ‘prove to me you’re not going to be a manipulative asshole’ and post ‘no manipulative assholes allowed’ on their profile as their strategy to weed out assholes. But really it’s just weaseling out of duty to set healthy boundaries or taking on any observational work when shit comes up. It’s lazy. That person would be seen as the one with the problem and shirking every personal responsibility to monitor their own life, looking for ways to pass their responsibility to their own happiness and security onto everyone else.
If it sounds like it would be insane if it were a dating strategy: they are in the wrong.
In this case the person is literally being paid to monitor and take responsibility over security and they still shirked their basic responsibility pushing it entirely on the target to prove to them that they are secure despite the paperwork (set by their own standard of rules) was not required.
if anything : anyone using that excuse of someone bucking the system should be talking to management to let them know the rules are not secure as they are. Perhaps they require passengers to hold the paper to say they are allowed to travel. eg: like they do with passports. A doctor’s note acknowledging they are pregnant and what week they are in so they can compare to the rules might do better here rather than the other way around.