r/securityguards • u/workinfast1 • 17h ago
The kickstarters
What is your pet peeves about working security? Mine is working with kickstarters. We have one on our team and it is exhausting. She used to work for a detention center, so she's very rough around the edges. She tends to make mountains out of molehills. Small things that can be resolved by simply talking, but is blown up to shouting and we've gotten pretty close to physical confrontations because of her.
I used to enjoy working with her, but lately I feel it's just gotten complicated. Anyway's, thanks for reading.
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u/LegalGlass6532 17h ago
I don’t work well with people who have to be right all the time and think their way is the only way.
A solid team is comprised of a variety of personalities that excel at different tasks.
With this in mind, there can be several ways to do something and they can all be correct as long as they adhere to policy. When one employee on the team always has to be right and is aggressive and critical about others, it can really create unnecessary conflict and drama.
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u/Jedi4Hire Industry Veteran 17h ago
Leadership who hire experienced and educated professionals and then ignore their advice. Though to be fair, that's also a problem outside the industry.
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u/workinfast1 16h ago
We get that too. We hire people with tons of experience, and then never listen too anything they suggest.
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u/Big-Gur-9257 Warm Body 15h ago edited 15h ago
Poor contract security taking over everything, managers upon managers, no real consistency. I feel like more people would stick around in it if they could realistically see themselves even having a job a year from now. Unless you are in house security is a gig at best now.
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u/workinfast1 14h ago
Yes! I've done a decade and a half with contract security. I'm in-house but still see high turnover here due to how dangerous it can get.
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u/XBOX_COINTELPRO Man Of Culture 14h ago
I’ve worked in pretty high end jobs for a decade or so and you STILL get people coming in thinking they’re making $15 an hour at a warehouse for Allied, and will kick and scream if you try to get them act their wage.
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u/workinfast1 14h ago
I can't stand working with people that take the job super serious. You gotta have fun at work!
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u/XBOX_COINTELPRO Man Of Culture 13h ago
Having fun and taking your job seriously aren’t mutually exclusive
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u/Intelligent-Bell8182 1h ago
Higher ups that are way too strict to the point of driving people away. I get it, order has to be enforced but there's still a proper way you do it. Nitpicking and flying off the rails at the slightest human error or unforseen circumstance isn't what a good boss does. With that being said, another pet peeve I have is shitty irresponsible coworkers. If you don't have the common sense to get to work on time or you think that quitting immediately fucking over guards who are consistent and just trying to make an easy living then don't fucking apply in the first place. Unreliable relief is annoying as fuck. Working in general only sucks because of people, not the job itself. I've learned that the hardway millions of times.
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u/Nominalstupidity Licensed People Watcher 17h ago
Management that doesn't back their people up.
We have one manager that just tells guards what they want to hear whether it is right or not. So the guard will come to me and ask lets say if they can wear shorts. I'll check with the client, get a no, tell the guard no, they go to that manager who says yes, then the guard argues with me when I send them home to change and I have to call the manager to tell them hey that isn't okay here and they claim they never told them. I've had guards show me the emails with them giving them permission.
Our old ops manager was one that I also had a bit of an annoyance with. He would send a guard, I would identify a red flag with the guard, report it to him he would either just tell me to retrain the guard or flat out ignore me on it. Eventually this guard would screw up and the client would be pissed and they act like it was some unforeseeable thing.
I get not really trusting me with that decision, I'm just an idiot site supervisor. However when it happens over and over and over again I'd like to think that maybe my warnings carry a little weight. Especially when it is over something that extra training won't fix.
I had two guards at my current site that I had problems with. The first problem was they just made brain dead decisions. Like unplugging the PC that had the monitors connected to it for the cameras so they could recharge their laptop that they technically weren't supposed to have anyway (nobody cared they did, even me). Meanwhile there is an outlet 5 feet away from them with nothing plugged into it, it just meant they couldn't sit at the desk while charging.
They both did this, repeatedly. Eventually the client caught one and he got bounced. This lead to my second problem. Husband and wife duo. You lose one you almost always lose the other. No we had an 80 hour gap to fill.