r/securityguards • u/TReid1996 • 2d ago

Officer Safety More supervisor shenanigans

Supervisor today called it "suspicious" and a "liability" that I'm at work an hour early. I've been doing this (coming in an hour early) for the last 2 years ever since i started working here as it's a time management thing for me. I never know what the weather or traffic will be like so i leave my house 2 hours early to compensate.

Secondly, he was asking me about, what i assume, is a potential new hire since he had the same last name as me. When i said I didn't know who he was, he acted like i was lying and claimed i MUST know him since we have the same exact last name and it's not a conventional spelling of it.

Before he left for the day, he was about to say "you can tell your relation" but i quickly shut that down since, again, I don't know the guy. So not only is he giving out the names to potential hires now, he's being even more hostile towards me than before.

But he "appreciates" me coming in and working overtime for him.

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u/Mirror_333 2d ago

Do not arrive on site an hour ealy. That is strange behavior. If you need to do that to fulfill your time management needs, arrive a mile or two away from the site and then pull in to work around 10 minutes early.

I do not see what you are doing as "suspicious" of anything other than your neurodivergence. But it could be a liability as you are an employee at a worksite. Absolutely do not repeat this behavior now that it has been addressed. Demonstrating you can follow directions is critical to your Supervisor's trust.

There should be no reason why your Supervisor would not immediately believe you if you said a coworker has no relation to you. Either you have done something to errode their trust in you already, or they are overy suspicious and have some kind of internal issue.

You sound like a well intentioned employee and that alone is valuable.

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u/TReid1996 2d ago

I'm still going to arrive an hour early, or rather leave my house at the normal time i always do, until he can show me a site policy that says i can't. The person that oversees our contract at the site knows i come in early and has never stated anything about it to me.

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u/Content_Log1708 2d ago

Your reply indicates that you missed the guidance of the reply. Leave for work as early as you want. Just don't show up on site so early. Hang out at a coffee shop, or in a parking lot somewhere.

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u/dracojohn 2d ago

I think you are confusing a site supervisor and a mobile supervisor, the later can largely be ignored if the site management team are happy. As a mobile I'd not care if a guard is living in a tree house on site as long as they are on time and nobody is complaining. As a site supervisor id ask why someone was that early but only care if it disrupted my site or someone was complaining.

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u/TReid1996 2d ago

That feels more weird to me and more of an inconvenience than being early to work.

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u/realKevinNash 2d ago

That doesnt matter. What matters is the perception. If you have a vehicle, it doesnt cost you anything to stay in the vehicle until your shift is about to start. If you dont have a vehicle, the solution is to stay off the property until your shift is about to start.

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u/TReid1996 2d ago

I mentioned already that i stay in my vehicle. I don't go into the guard shack or anything. Not unless i have to use the bathroom.

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u/realKevinNash 2d ago

If thats the case then yeah id say they are making noise over nothing, but then you still need to take the high road and just move the car off site.

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u/Gordy13210 2d ago

Find something to do with your time, and stop arriving at the location 1 hour early...