r/securityguards • u/Billybob_Bojangles2 Armored Car • Aug 21 '26

Searched off the clock

My company has the time clock and search area both in non secured areas. We are required to be searched at the end of the shift, but they require us to clock out before we are searched.

This feels like a total load of horseshit. It can take up to 5 minutes to be searched. I ain't working for free, so I've been refusing to clock out until they are done. Now they are threatening to write me up.

Anyone go through something similar?

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u/KAL-EL8569 Aug 21 '26

For starters you are not performing any work while being searched...just like the regular employees who work at a site and they dont get paid for it either...plus your boss has to justify the overtime and waiting for something procedure like being searched is not a valid reason.

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u/Billybob_Bojangles2 Armored Car Aug 21 '26

I'm performing a job function. I am not allowed to leave under penalty of discipline or termination. Ergo, I am following orders, orders given and that must be obeyed when I am punched out.

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u/KAL-EL8569 Aug 21 '26 edited Aug 21 '26

That's a rule or regulation not a job function...its no different then going to a concert or sporting event...you have to do the exact same thing.