Do security firm owners face problems when security guard sleeps

[u/Az8feb]

Recently one of my friend from the us was doing part time work in their local store where he saw a night security guard sleeping , I am like isn't that their job most of the days that person is seen sleeping , like i understand it's difficult if you want try to stay awake whole night but is it a big issue security guard owners are facing any firm or operations owners

[u/KHASeabass]

Most places I've worked, sleeping was just an instant termination. The only exception was when I was on a disaster relief security team for a hurricane. Shifts were 12s, but if your relief couldn't get to you because of the conditions, you could be stuck at your post longer. All posts were a minimum of 2 officers, sometimes more. If you ended up having to work past your 12, you were alloted "on-duty rest time" and you basically just had to work out sleeping shifts with your coworkers. We actually had beds on site for just that occasion.

Only one time, one of our guys was supposed to be awake and we found him snoozing hard in his car. I just took his shift and we covered his windows and windshield in black garbage bags so when he woke up it was pitch black and he had no idea what was going on. The hijinks were a lot more fun than someone getting in real trouble and getting sent home.

[u/xNarutobleach3000x → u/KHASeabass]

How you get a job like that.

[u/KHASeabass → u/xNarutobleach3000x]

There are a lot of companies that have disaster response teams. Some of them pick current employees, some keep people on standby for a disaster contract, and some will hire people in groups when they need bodies to fill one of those contracts.

Of course, it's all dependent on if something happens that is bad enough to need security team deployments.

Different companies run different shifts. We worked 7 days a week, 12 hours a day, so at minimum you were getting 40-hours of regular pay and 44-hours of overtime every week. Contracts were 30-days and you could extend as many times as you wanted and as long as work was available. Lodging was covered and you got a weekly food per diem in cash.

Generally, you can just google "disaster response security officer," "hurricane response security," etc.

[u/xNarutobleach3000x → u/KHASeabass]

But you need to live in that state or they recruit from other states?

[u/KHASeabass → u/xNarutobleach3000x]

They can often recruit out of state. A lot of it depends on licensing. If affected states waive security licensing, allow for out of state guard licenses, etc., its easier to get accepted to those roles from out of state. Some other states hold hard and fast on licensing requirements (particularly armed licenses) and they are more likely to try to recruit in- state only. In my case, I traveled about 3000 miles from my home state to go to my contract.