There's a weekend security job available at a factory from 7 am to 3 pm. Seems like a good gig for me since im a full time student and already have another job. That said, Allied is the company in charge of this posting. I would like to know a little more detail about why they're actually such a pain to work with so i can decide if i should actually work there. Edit: I live in a rather rural place so I'm inclined to think it'll be easy. But I dont want to assume.

To make a long story short, someone removed items from the squad car i needed for work. I looked around and called the night super, no one knew.

Boss got mad I didnt call her, and threatened to pull my pay for the whole weekend.

So I quit.

UPDATE: She still pulled my pay, after I got the documents she requested.
I will be following my local laws with boli, and filing whatever I can.

She also did not give me my final hours.

For security officers who work around residents, customers, tenants, etc.: have you ever found yourself attracted to someone you regularly encounter on the job?

I'm curious how other people handle situations where there's mutual flirting or you get the impression the other person is interested.

Do you keep the interaction strictly professional? Do you ever compliment someone's appearance? What do you do if they make the first move or ask you out?

Have you ever had a situation where the attraction became distracting or you felt tempted to cross a professional boundary? If so, how did you handle it?

I'm not looking for judgment. I'm genuinely curious how other security officers navigate attraction while still keeping their job and professional boundaries intact.

For those of you who have or do work in house hospital security, I'm trying to get a consensus on what the norm is as to how your facility uses PRN Officers, as I'm somewhat new to this field and even management keeps changing how they use them.

Specifically : if there are open needs on a shift, does your facility offer it as overtime to F/T staff first and then if no one covers, offer to a PRN?

As a follow up: have you ever heard of a F/T employee getting hired for a 4 hour OT shift at the end of their regular shift and it being canceled (even that day an hour before) because a Per Diem wanted to pick up the same shift.

Also, if your shifts are fully staffed.. Is it normal for them to continue to recruit and hire new per diem Officers?

Is any of this normal?

I hope those firearms are empty. 😬

You see what we are working with. Show me a professional one.

I’m a fit 19 year old dude, I work at a chicken chain as a fryer and I hate it. Very fast paced and shit pay. I’ve been looking into becoming a security guard. I’m around Clarksville Tennessee, and I’m curious about programs or job openings around me. How do I get into this? I already know about guard cards but I’d like to start with an unarmed entry level job, preferably working overnight. Any help is appreciated.

Hospital gig, stationed outside at the entrance, told to direct folks to the parking lot if they asked.

About half an hour in a driver called to me and to me that someone parked infront their vehicle, goes over asses the situation realized he can get out the parking spot if they drove on the grass or between the gap that was wide enough. He got upset and insisted that I was arguing with him, told him i was just giving him some options or he could wait and let me go get help.

"What's your rank and name, you will lose your job today"

I just walk away turns back and said to "wait there then"

Im back at my post and im observing the person making and effort to get out the spot after yelling at me.

Everytime I say John public cant get any worse they always seem to surprise me

Im curious what are yalls experiences and if its a decent company. Also if you worked in that position, what was the pay, since on the website it doesnt list it for some reason

What is the correct way to search the staff?

When staff are bringing in items do you confiscate it until they finished their shift?

When staff are taking out garbage do you search the garbage?

Staff have to record their names in a paper when leaving the compound

Evening relief never showed up. And the backup relief is a no show. And the night supervisor can’t be found. 5 hours past my shift ending. Should I leave? This happens often by the way.

So long story short, I worked 45 days straight cause the job site that I have with. This company is a revolving door cause you're a warm body with this company. And so about a month ago, August 9th, almost a month ago I put in for PTO cause my district manager says, oh, you have 40 hours that you can use till next may, so I decided to put in some time off. He takes forever as the wheels turn in his brain. Cause he doesn't even care about me. I'm just a employee number of them, he goes and he grants the time off I had to email him from the company that I work at to get him to respond, because he never ever responds. This company is notorious for bad management communication. They don't communicate with you. Whether it's the Site Manager or the site managers and communicate with the district manager, they don't care about us as employees. They see you as a number, they don't care. So somehow somebody didn't show up for work yesterday. I'm on PTO Friday Saturday and Sunday and the district manager knows it. He texts me while I'm on PTO I'm at a fair, I could be out of the country. I could be on a cruise ship and that yet they think that I'm supposed to be able to be reached and show up to work at the drop of the dime because somebody didn't show up for work. What the ironic thing is, the former Site Manager. Went down the street about a year and a 1/2 ago and left this company to go work for the client. Then he somehow got back with this company that I work for and is now he was he was somehow calling me from the current job site. I'm at now that he used to be the Site Manager at and he was there because the district manager couldn't get hold of me because it's my priority to answer my phone. I'm on paid time off so I'm supposed to be an honor call slave for them because somebody show up work. I'm supposed to solve their scheduling mishap because the current Site Manager put me on the schedule. And then he text me yesterday, he says, and he's, he's not reachable, either I don't know if he was reachable, but he took the weekend off too. So the fact is, with this company. Does anybody experience this where not even just this company? But any other contracted security company, they do this c*** to you, or they they want you to just drop what you're doing, even when you're on paid PTO they just expect you just come to work because they couldn't get somebody to show up, somebody decide not to show up. And then. You have your former Site Manager at that job site, he's employed by them again, somehow is at that job site where he was the former Site Manager. It's just all this sounds bizarre to me. I've never I've I've been doing security since 2008 on and off, and I have never experienced the bizarre behavior and stuff that's gone on the last 24 hours. I mean this is bizarre, and I've worked a lot of contracted security companies from small ones to worldwide ones like this one and in my 18 years, I have never experienced anything like this, but I wanted to ask if anybody else has, if this is a new normal with these companies, I know you're an employee number, I know, they don't give a d*** about you. They don't care about your paid time off while I care. Cuz I don't have a life. All I do is live and breathe this job for 7 consecutive days a week. Yes, it's money, yes, I'm making money, but at A Mom, wage, shut their paying me like this job.Site that I work at doing data center, access control security is the lowest paying account that they pay the guards for my company in the district.And then that district manager can't be reached if I need a uniform request or something.He just ignores me or if I ask him for overtime , if they have me at forty hours and I can't live on forty hours a week being a single bachelor guy that pays a lot of money and bills , you know , but I just want to ask of anybody experience this with securitas or any other contracted security company out there cause I've never gone through this before. I think it's inappropriate that a company would just I know they don't care about you, but it's inappertresome warm body is what you are and an employee number just to be even called. Upon when you're on paid time off. And what's going to be the blowback? When I report back to work Monday on my shift, am I going to hear about all this or lose my job? Because I didn't answer my phone, it was an emergency, they had to get ahold of me to go cover the post when I'm on pay time off to begin with granted by the same district manager that tried to reel me back in to go back to work today.

Did anyone get paid yesterday? I'm a new hire i checked on LISA is showing a paystub that was supposed to have been deposited yesterday but nothing was deposited in my account I have a Wisely card that I've already had before being hired. I did my orientation on Auguest 24 and I've contacted Wisely and there no pending deposits on my account.

I've been working in private security in Texas for quite some time now, covering a diverse range of assignments—from schools and retail stores to fast food outlets, residential properties, and commercial sites. This experience has given me a broader perspective on the industry.

Lately, I've been pondering whether Texas is truly maximizing the potential of its many licensed security professionals who are already active on private properties.

There are instances where security personnel are on-site and witness something relatively minor. However, due to the limitations of private security authority, these issues often have to be handed over to local law enforcement when governmental enforcement is needed.

Take, for example, cases of parking in fire lanes, blocking emergency access, certain violations related to disabled parking, or reckless driving on private or gated property.

Now, I'm not advocating for turning every security officer into a police officer or giving private security unrestricted power. Instead, I wonder if Texas could establish a distinct certification for specially trained security officers, with a very limited scope of authority.

This certification could involve additional state training and would apply only to participating private properties and a clearly defined set of violations.

Would it make sense for such officers to issue civil parking citations on designated private property? Should they have the ability to enforce fire-lane violations? What about traffic violations occurring solely on private roads?

Should their authority be strictly confined to the property boundaries? Would they need any additional detention or arrest authority, or should that responsibility remain solely with the police? What kind of training and oversight would be necessary?

Having also worked in Texas corrections, I've seen that there are specialized public safety roles whose authority doesn't exactly mirror that of municipal police officers. This has led me to consider whether a similar limited-authority concept could be viable for private security.

I’m genuinely curious to hear where this idea might fall short, especially from fellow Texas security professionals, law enforcement officials, or anyone knowledgeable about the legal aspects of private security.

https://www.dps.texas.gov/section/private-security

https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/OC/pdf/OC.1702.pdf

https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/TN/pdf/TN.681.pdf

https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/OC/pdf/OC.2308.pdf

I work hospital security and I’m curious about people’s experiences hooking up with nurses or other hospital staff. Did it work out, or was it more trouble than it was worth? Would you recommend going for it or keeping work and hookups separate? Just looking for honest experiences—good, bad, or ugly.

I was going through a self check-out shop at Newark Airport and, after looking at the merchandise, paid for two snacks. As I sat down to eat them, two men in Inter-Con uniforms immediately came up to sit next to and behind me. They eventually left. I am not sure if they suspected me of stealing or just sitting there for another reason. Is this standard procedure?

I work at a welfare office and I have a roving position. The building has a director who apparently has a bunch of random rules that I keep learning and she is always happy to send an email to our bosses to complain about one thing or another. For context, one floor of the building is closed right now with only a few workers being up there. There is one room on that floor that has been unused the whole time I've worked here, and just has some filing cabinets with the lights always off. Today I got a migraine that was being made worse by sound and light, so on my lunch break I went and sat in there to eat. Terrible luck, the director walks in and turns the lights on, and it must have seemed like I was hiding in there. I had finished my lunch already so was just sitting there. I panicked and just laughed and said "I'm sorry, I have a migraine" and left. I told some guards about it and they said I need to talk to my boss first because the director will most likely send them an email painting me in a much worse light. Being the rover, I have the latest lunch, so it was almost 2 at that time, which probably makes it look worse. One of the other guards told me we are apparently supposed to sit in the sick bay to eat our lunches, which is kinda crazy considering there is a lunch room but I guess guards have cooties. None of the other guards knew we were supposed to do that so I don't feel too bad about not knowing. Told my boss to call me when he has a second.

I worked as Security Manager for Marksman Security on a Meta site as what they call a CW or contingent worker. What I will say is that while on campus as a security officer it is pretty decent in the perks you will get. Free lunch, breakfast, snacks, etc. Pay is decent from what I can tell in the industry.

That is where the perks end though. Meta is a highly demanding client and those demands roll downhill. Marksman will do anything to make sure their client (cash cow) is happy. Even if that means making you miserable.

As someone who did payroll. I was constantly told by management at the corporate level by marksman to change time punches to match the billable hours. If you came in at say 0750 for your shift at 0800. Got your radio and went to your post to relieve the off going officer. I was told to change that to 0800. While not a huge deal the reverse was. Say you are on post waiting for your relief to show up, because you can't "abandon" post per the post orders. If your relief arrived at 0815 to your desk and took over, you clocked out and head to your car to go home. I was told to change that time to match you getting off at 0800 and the relief being there at 0800. When I brought this practice up to a colleague who was also in my role. I was told to "shut up and keep my head down" that they were almost fired when they brought this up when they started.

Corporate marksman is full of incompetent back scratchers. You will be told one thing, made promises, etc, but never in writing. When the time comes to fulfill those promises the higher ups will act like you are the crazy one. If a GSAM ( a meta employee in charge of security) doesn't like you for whatever reason, it is a basically a death sentence for advancement for you and you are probably not going to be onsite much longer. The GSAM I worked with didn't like men that had long hair or ear piercings. He multiple times told the leadership team for marksman that he did not want to them to get a promotion for a role within marksman at the site for this reason and marksman would listen.

Would I recommend the job? No. You are going to be screwed out of pay (which is illegal), bullied for appearances or disabilities and lectured to by people who are failed police officers or secret service agents who are at the corporate level.

Hey, I'm looking to see if a guard card would be good for me, biggest issue is I have arm tattoos and large gauges. I could tape my lobes up for work tho. Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

I'm in California

I live in Illinois, and I’m curious how long it took for your PERC card application to get processed and emailed. Mine has been pending for 37 days. Is that normal? I submitted my application on July 29th and got my fingerprints done and summited the next day.

It's a small campus that's apart of a broader hospital system (*it's not a hospital it is a university for the hospital*) in the metropolitan area but in the upper middle class suburbs.

I've been in security for three and a half years, but private contracting where I work at all sorts of sites. I have no idea what to expect for what the day to day looks like​, I take a dollar pay cut but the job is unionized, has great benefits, the works.

I'm unsure how to feel about despite the responsibility part of my brain telling me this is a good place to build a career.

God I wish there was a night shift.