If the front desk security guard made that decision on his own, I hope he got fired for it since his one job is to keep unauthorized people out of the data cent

If the front desk security guard made that decision on his own, I hope he got fired for it since his one job is to keep unauthorized people out of the data center. And now other customers have to declare a security incident to their customers because the rock solid physical security that they promised was breached because someone bullied the security guard into opening the doors and letting everyone in without so much as looking at an ID. There are lots of ways to speed entry of a group of people without throwing open all of the egress doors, like checking ID's (or letting the eBay exec identify his employees) and letting 10 of them at a time in the man trap before opening the other door.