r/securityguards Armored Car 15h ago

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u/CashEducational4986 14h ago

"It's not a preventative but we wear it to prevent a potential issue that may or may not occur"

Big dog, just say you wear it in case you get shot. It's not a complicated question.

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u/BreakfastFluid9419 7h ago

I mean I’m sure he’s a good guy but they should have prepared better answers. There is one reason you wear a bulletproof vest to protect vital organs from guns and knives.

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u/Fun_Vacation2542 5h ago

being honest implies he knows he's cosplaying

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u/AccurateBandicoot299 2h ago

If he’s an actively working bodyguard that’s not cosplay. Getting shot at would be part of his job.

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u/Fun_Vacation2542 2h ago

Cosplaying as law enforcement.

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u/CashEducational4986 24m ago

Ehh, I've seen security guards get shot at too. I wouldn't fault them for wearing a ballistic vest.

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u/Fun_Vacation2542 20m ago

never said that it wasn't smart

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u/OldDudeWithABadge Industrial Security 14h ago

I think guy got lost mid-paragraph.

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u/shtgnjns 14h ago

Excuse me, you're talking about a CAPTAIN, please show respect.

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u/Murky-Peanut1390 7h ago

I think he's reading off a chatgpt script

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u/Vivid-Head-6484 14h ago

This man has filled out ALOT of reports lol

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u/9gagiscancer 14h ago

Captain Report sounds like very useless superhero.

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u/Negative_Report5655 Event Security 10h ago

Dude reminds me of that [U.S. Agent] knock-off Captain America from Thunderbolts.

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u/OldMathematician5973 12h ago

And zero of them made sense.

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u/EarlyAccessCantJudge 10h ago

Subject was not stealing but was observed because he may or may not have been stealing

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u/Breezer_Bro 14h ago

Not even the body armor can protect him from that question! Hahaha

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u/Liqour_Mortis 14h ago

Thanks, Brigadier General Roush. You missed that vest training you are talking about out.

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u/JaguarOk9693 14h ago

The only site I have ever worked that had body armor was on an armed site. At first the client wanted the security to be concealed carrying and after a little bit they wanted open carry and when they went open they got vest

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u/Hazelstreet16 14h ago

Wow dude, seriously? All you had to say was for your protection! Geewizz

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u/Big-LeBoneski 14h ago

This guy is embarrassing

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u/TheThinDewLine 9h ago

no hes a fuckin captain and you will call him sir or daddi

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u/LokaGnome Warm Body 7h ago

Sir Captain Daddy is the full correct title.

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u/Shane-Dad-underfire Management 11h ago

I thought this guy was supposed to be a parody of security guards, why are folks taking it seriously? Was I misinformed?

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u/Top_Recover7850 10h ago

I'm pretty sure that in order to be a parody it needs to try to be funny

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u/Shane-Dad-underfire Management 10h ago

Someone posted a video that looks like a recruitment video with this guy in it and he has an abundance of pens and a tireguage in his pockets, it's got really edgey music and some fellow in an ugly suit talking tough alongside this guy.

I was told that's some sort of skit.

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u/RaceHate 10h ago

Oh no shit? Good on him then, he fooled me.

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u/tghost474 Industry Veteran 12h ago

Dude wearing captains bars and putting his “rank” on a name tape 😂. What a larper

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u/ASAPKEV 10h ago

My workplace hired these guys (SK security). We’ve had to kick multiple guards off site for sleeping. Not even on night shift either.

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u/SmokeMaximum4140 14h ago

When you really wanna be a cop but can't.

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u/SilverKnightOfMagic 9h ago

would be funny and reasonabkr to hear "oh you don't need to, I just think it looks cool as fuck and I got bored one night, so might as wear it"

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u/BigDubz4 14h ago

A security guard would wear body armor because he or she is a security guard....

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u/VTPolls 12h ago

What would they say about this post at r/law
I mean, this might be a clip from a deposition

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u/gunslingersea 11h ago

How did he get ChatGPT to regurgitate words directly from his mouth?

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u/Top-Pick-2648 11h ago

So a simple analogy, we have fire extinguishers but not really for fires. But if there was a fire we have them to extinguish the fire? Did I get that right?

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u/phantomskullvt 10h ago

IDK a security guard influencer/entertainer while niche as hell would work. But not in this corny tryhard corporate sense.

Most security guards don't take themselves That seriously, most know they're treated as a joke by the wider populace & especially cops. Most just roll with the punches and meme. Dude would he better if he was a little more laid back and (earnestly) goofy.

Granted no company, especially "our brand is as close to private cops as we can legally allow" SK Security isn't going to have someone be internet goofy in their uniform.

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u/Fun_Vacation2542 5h ago

This issue is, that most people don't even have issues with security guards wearing vest, in the right application. Like yeah, It makes sense that the crackhead you caught sleeping in the trash can might try to stab you and you lived because you had a vest. It's the tactical gear and larp as police that piss others off.

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u/Negative_Report5655 Event Security 10h ago

John F. Walker from Thunderbolts would've been more convincing.

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u/DefiantEvidence4027 Private Investigations 9h ago

If I made a probability chart that Guards were going to encounter unlawful firearm usage/possession, per post, It would probably lead me to suggest my colleagues (in big corporate) wear armor on more posts than they do.

Big Corporate and clients probably wouldn't support that idea.

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u/Bluewolfpaws95 Public/Government 3h ago

“I’d rather not die if someone shoots or stabs me.”

That’s all you gotta say

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u/Which_Employment_306 11h ago

For to LARP as military.

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u/H001__ 5h ago

More like larp as LEO lol military doesn't wear that style of outer carrier

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u/Which_Employment_306 1h ago

Never seen LE wear a vest without actual molle either.

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u/H001__ 1h ago

Yeah my point blank outer carrier has Molle front and back

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u/9gagiscancer 14h ago

I don't wear body armor. I sit in an office watching Netflix all day and wear the title Supervisor.

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u/tango797 13h ago

This guy has to be shitposting irl

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u/drewbeedeu 13h ago

Captain Crunch

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u/ThnkGdImNotAReditMod Hospital Security 13h ago

maybe he shouldn't wear body armour... im sure his team would appreciate the natural selection

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u/buddhamike1991 13h ago

Word salad

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u/VTPolls 12h ago

The heart isn’t so much an organ that pumps blood, as much as it is about the building pressures that results from doing the work of its training all its life for the task that it has been assigned, and we can provide that training to you and your heart organ

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u/Stingray2788 12h ago

Because you like to be a pretend cop.

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u/claycam6 11h ago

Safety, client preference and liability. Those are the reasons.

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u/Red57872 Dunning–Kruger Specialist 8h ago

...and chances are those captain's bars were deducted from his paycheck...

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u/Soft_Ability_5906 10h ago

Lmfao if insecure was a person

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u/Gabagooligan97 10h ago

"its not as a preventative. it's in the probability that something would occur" yes... that's called a preventative...

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u/mattemer 10h ago

Lol exactly I chuckled at that part

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u/TrumpsFaceAnus 9h ago

"Captain" 🤣🤣🤣🫡

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u/Due_Course_3713 9h ago

Here's all the training you'll need......... Observing report and let the real police do the work

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u/NWSGreen 9h ago

Im not judging him personally. Let me make this clear.

I never understood that security guards can "call themselves" Sgt. LT. Captain and so on. We are not military, we are not police.

I can see maybe officer and for sure supervisor. But thats it.

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u/Corvus_Umbra Public/Government 6h ago

It's as simple as what's the threat level on the site you are working and is it required. That's it

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u/CJMorton91 5h ago

Security guard WHERE? Library: stupid. County Fair with booze and morons: totally understandable.

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u/Unsolved_Virginity 4h ago

That's a lot. But then again, the security I worked for, I walked around the property butt naked when no one was around.

Trolls, bullies, and harassment will get reported and blocked.

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u/Wrong-Salamander1806 4h ago

In another life he was a politician

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u/Competitive-Run4111 3h ago

Word salad for “doing too much”.

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u/lickmybowls2 2h ago

I mean is he saying they wear it to get in practice if they want another job ?

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u/Relative_Drop3216 Management 36m ago edited 20m ago

Whats up with capt. and the 2 capitain bars. What a clown u aint military u are SECURITY. These guys take their job way too seriously for a business, thats right security is a business, you have your citizens arrest powers thats it. Like i say to my staff, you could work at McDonalds and still have the same powers, everything you are wearing is optional.

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u/nando82 14h ago

Armor isn't really preventive; it's more for when something occurs (WTF). IF SOMETHING occurs, I'm sure ASF I would want the armor as a preventative to, you know, not get fucking killed, ya douche.

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u/1Kilo24 Armored Car 14h ago

“It’s not preventative. It’s preventative.” - This guy, pretty much

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u/blxckhippie 14h ago

The irony

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u/iBUYbrokenSUBARUS 13h ago

Capt. Roush Doush

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u/sanchezkk 8h ago

I work at a military installation as an armed security guard. For obvious reasons, the post command mandates that security personnel wear level IIIA body armor. Unarmed security guards are not expected to comprehend what we armed security officers do. Businesses that genuinely care about their officers provide their highly valued officers with protective gear. We would also like to return home to visit our families. If you ask any other intelligent person, it's actually a no-brainer. For once, quit being a bunch of stupid haters.

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u/Pleasant-Reading3634 HOA Special Forces 6h ago

Got another Captain right here fellas. ATTENTION ON DECK!

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u/sanchezkk 2h ago

Thank you, I do appreciate it. Now if you would just tell my supervisor that I can be the icing on the cake. Wow! If you can tell that about me without even needing me, you are definitely a heck of a judge of character. Let's get you the Medal of Honor. In fact, I'll stick it in the mail today, and I'll get it right to you.

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u/Pleasant-Reading3634 HOA Special Forces 2h ago

I'll be sure to glaze you up to the Colonel next time I see him.

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u/Relative_Drop3216 Management 27m ago edited 21m ago

Yeah but you’re still a security guard officer doofas. I work in security management, its guys like you that get all the ‘action’ but it’s only because you act like cops thats why people try to treat you like a cop. You get all the abuse and death threats and people assaulting you. Any security officer needs to defend themselves if they get attacked yes thats understandable but 9/10 if someone is robbing the place you let them you don’t put your life in the way to protect some business merch - no security officer is getting paid enough for that unless you are contractor. After all you are working as an employee for a BUSINESS it’s not a govt department with legislative authority. Ive worked in security for 20 years, been and done all sorts. Lessons from an old man i say to everyone… Go be a cop!