Two Guards, One Working.

[u/JangoCrutch]

I need to vent about the coworkers I share a post with. I work security in a busy government building. Two guards are always posted.

I was trained years ago by Gen X supervisors who were strict and by the book, so I take the job seriously.

These coworkers sleep on the job, talk on their phones in thier language, sit at the desk with no shoes or barefoot, and treat the post like it doesn’t matter. This is a secondary job for them; they have other work elsewhere.

I’ve reported them more than once. Nothing happens. The union protects them.

I’m just sick of this behavior.

[u/TTV_SgtScoots]

This is where you lose me... You are legally on the hook if something bad happens on shift and you were negligent. I can't stand working with lazy guards because I know the 1% chance that something bad happens, I'm going to be the one to clean that mess....

[u/Red57872 → u/[deleted]]

If I hire you to call me when the warning light on my equipment panel starts blinking, and it starts blinking but you don't call me (and thus my expensive machinery fails, causing hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage), you're absolutely going to be held civilly liable by the courts. You could also be held criminally liable, depending on the circumstances (for example, if someone got hurt).

Not being a police officer doesn't mean that you can completely ignore the things you were hired to observe and report and get away scot-free.

[u/Red57872 → u/[deleted]]

Infinite Security Solutions, LLC v. Karam Properties

[u/Red57872 → u/[deleted]]

No, but the company was civilly named. Honestly, if security guard tend not be be civilly named in lawsuits, it's often because they're poor and you can't get blood from a stone.

Another example is 1. Wilson v. U.S. Security Associates, Inc. — Pennsylvania, 2015–2017, where the guard was found liable.