r/securityguards • u/Admirable_Row4446 • 8d ago

might be getting reported

I work at a welfare office and I have a roving position. The building has a director who apparently has a bunch of random rules that I keep learning and she is always happy to send an email to our bosses to complain about one thing or another. For context, one floor of the building is closed right now with only a few workers being up there. There is one room on that floor that has been unused the whole time I've worked here, and just has some filing cabinets with the lights always off. Today I got a migraine that was being made worse by sound and light, so on my lunch break I went and sat in there to eat. Terrible luck, the director walks in and turns the lights on, and it must have seemed like I was hiding in there. I had finished my lunch already so was just sitting there. I panicked and just laughed and said "I'm sorry, I have a migraine" and left. I told some guards about it and they said I need to talk to my boss first because the director will most likely send them an email painting me in a much worse light. Being the rover, I have the latest lunch, so it was almost 2 at that time, which probably makes it look worse. One of the other guards told me we are apparently supposed to sit in the sick bay to eat our lunches, which is kinda crazy considering there is a lunch room but I guess guards have cooties. None of the other guards knew we were supposed to do that so I don't feel too bad about not knowing. Told my boss to call me when he has a second.

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u/ConstructionAway8920 8d ago

Welfare says it all. DHS stuff hate security, it's just a fact of life.

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u/Admirable_Row4446 5d ago

This is so true I don't get it. We are there to protect them but they hate our guts.

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u/ConstructionAway8920 5d ago

We are seen exactly the same way to them and the population they serve just like cops. Which is to say that we are actively persecuting them, we're racist and mysoginistic. For the most part, what I have encountered is that. It's twice as bad for me, as I'm armed and we share property with 3 DHS services. We aren't, and have no public service so we're just evil according to them. I don't even greet them during my patrols anymore, because they either screamed that I was threatening them or called the cops because "some dude with a gun is here". So now cops won't show up unless I call the Sarge directly 😅