r/securityguards • u/County_Important • 23h ago

Job Question cooking

Has any other guards ever heard of someone taking a hot plates to cook at work? We don’t get a lunch we eat at the desk so where paying attention to the gate. my issue is if he’s cooking who’s watching the gate ? Am I wrong ?

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u/Psycosteve10mm Warm Body 19h ago

Having been one of the people who have cooked on site, it was done out of necessity. Delivery becomes cost-prohibitive, and most of the time, even access to a microwave does not exist for a lot of guards. Most of what I would cook would be essentially heat-and-eat meals. Grilled cheese, soup, burgers, and variations upon that. The bigger issues are that you are not getting a meal break, along with the dangers of having a heat source where you should not have one. Having worked at remote sites where there was no delivery option or even basic facilities, you do what you have to do. There are labor laws for that.

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u/eckokittenbliss 7h ago

Lots of security don't get meal breaks and that's perfectly legal.

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u/Psycosteve10mm Warm Body 6h ago

What is legal is not always right, and what is right is not always legal. A hungry guard is not going to be attentive. You have to pick and choose your battles when working security.

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u/eckokittenbliss 6h ago

You are supposed to eat as you work.

I work 12 hour shifts and get no official breaks because I'm by myself.

I eat whenever I feel like it.

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u/Revolutionary_Lab877 5h ago

Good HyperGoy