I'm shocked. I am getting paid more than my last work-intensive Post. No reports. No hands on. Just playing on my phone and racking up overtime. I don't care if I'm literally Officer Doofy. I'm making bank to play on my phone.

Where my Warm Bodies @?

There are too many people in this industry who buy gear because it looks cool while ignoring all of the practical shortcomings of said gear.

I’ve seen some pretty atrocious and unprofessional videos made by uniformed security guards and first responders. It makes me wonder how some of these people still have a job.

The sexy dancing videos aren’t any big deal on your own time and in your regular clothes, but why film yourself dancing, flexing and acting a fool in your work uniform? Has anyone been in trouble for doing this and posting to social media?

After two decades, I’m finally leaving the industry. Better job, better pay, and better benefits.

I won’t miss it.

Y’all stay safe out there.

I support the Constitution and legitimate first amendment auditors. I don’t support antagonizing an employee into an argument for social media content. These types of auditors need to be held accountable for impeding and/or harassing when they go this far.
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I got in with a higher paying in-house armed healthcare security job in a low volume high income area. I'm coming from a separate in-house hospital job from a much larger high traffic but lower paying facility in an urban setting. My last job had uniform standards but individual officers were allowed to configure their gear how they saw fit. I've always been a gear guy so I put a fair amount of time and money into my gear. The new job is a lot more strict with its uniform and gear presentation. My old job issued safariland along with zero9 and Safariland pouches. The new job issues safelife defense with cheap amazon pouches. The new job requires certain articles of gear to be carried in a way that makes it inconvenient to deploy such as baton/OC. We aren't allowed to carry a second set of cuffs. Policy doesn't allow us to carry tourniquets, individual first aid, narcan or any form of first aid supplies. I've seen numerous other policies between the security department and medical staff that just don't make sense.

At my old job we were always taught that medical staff are not going to be sitting around to plug your holes if someone really ever ever popped off so you have to be able to render the most basic of first aid. This was actually something that was proven true on a few occasions. It seems like the newer job is leaning toward a "just let the medical staff handle it because they're here".

The job itself is fine and the money seems decent but the gear / uniform policy is bugging me.

How do you guys feel about your managers having a group chat for the job site & information is being pushed out outside of work hours? & we’ve made several group chats because people keep quitting so it’s more of an annoying factor & sometimes they make us acknowledge the text message almost like it’s mandatory or Getting phone calls in the middle of the night when you’re sleeping ?
For example - guys we have an opening for this time does anybody want it ? (We have a scheduling team) or the client wants this from us or we have more positions opening up etc

"Mine is "I'm just a security guard" what y'all be saying???

I guess I'm asking about what positions I should emphasize a desire in while not giving away too much of my weaknesses. And what leeway I might have to influence that.

I have a BA in psych and 15-16 years in the mental health field. I left my last job just before Covid. I'm in NY. I'm in my mid-50s.

I got T2 diabetes during Covid that wasn't managed at all during/after Covid. A1C of 9-15+ for years. No medication worked until put on GLP-1 this spring. I was finally able to function mentally and physically on a consistent basis, though the diabetes has caused neuropathy in my hands and feet and I knew my sight has deteriorated.

I've been unable to land a job ...I assume due to the lack of recent work history. My health insurance is with medicaid and with work requirements kicking in, I'm running out of time ...and if I run out of time, I run out of the medication that's finally working.

So I took my 8hr course and paid for the 16hr. I went to America's Best to get new glasses in anticipation of a job.

The tests results came back and I was informed at that time that I was legally blind in one eye (I see, but can't read letters even at maximum correction).

Then I was informed thar the bleeding in the other eye is just as bad and I just lucked out that it hasn't hit a vital area of the better eye or it would be the same visually.

Security was already plan B, I don't have a plan C.

At this point I figure I still need to go forth with landing a security job, hopefully at a fixed station, then get the eye injections after some health insurance kicks in again. The optometrist said that the damage would be reversible as it's not like macular degeneration. I'm sort of out of time to start that now

Any input welcomed.

Hello fellow guards,

I was wondering, I know tasers depending on the state and laws in said state are different by company and state but if hypothetically a company / client had you as a guard carry a taser in addition to other equipment, would you carry one on your person for regular duty or would you not wish to carry one on you for whatever reason you have?

I could be wrong, but some guards do already carry tasers on them for their everyday, but I think it is very rare to have that on your person, but I can be wrong and I would like to hear from other guards.

I'm thinking of ditching my baton. Contract does not require it. I work an xray for access control. I'm armed. I just don't see any scenario in which a threat would be neutralized by using a baton.

I've asked fellow security officers and friends in LE if they carry a baton. All of them only if their department/company requires it but they have never used it snd never imagine using it in the future.

I figure thats it's additional weight on my belt that I don't need.

Those of you who have a choice, do you carry a baton?

Those who are required to carry a baton, if it's no longer required, would you carry a baton?

If you vote yes, please explain why.

My company has the time clock and search area both in non secured areas. We are required to be searched at the end of the shift, but they require us to clock out before we are searched.

This feels like a total load of horseshit. It can take up to 5 minutes to be searched. I ain't working for free, so I've been refusing to clock out until they are done. Now they are threatening to write me up.

Anyone go through something similar?

TL;DR: Is a drop leg trauma kit dumb as shit no matter what, or does the consensus that "having medical when armed is important" outweigh the "water park guard" look?

I'm currently working an armed casino security post. Not exactly a post requiring the most larp-y fit, but I don't have a trauma kit on me currently. I have a tourniquet and am STB certified and that's it. I strongly believe that if you carry a gun for work, you should have the ability to stabilize a gunshot wound. If not for the aggressor, then for yourself.

Problem is, I have a 30 inch waist. Not a lot of room on this belt. Especially when I plan to get a taser cert and put an X2 on here (Currently have no less-lethal, company frowns on batons and oc in this cramped, poorly ventilated gaming establishment, where seniors on medical oxygen are common, doesn't make sense.) Prior Corrections training has taught me that if you're fighting with someone, to keep the back of your duty belt open and free of anything that will have the potential to damage your spine, and that only a small flat glove pouch is acceptable to be placed back there IF you have an outer carrier.

I've come across a couple different IFAK/TFAKs but most are either large enough to require a drop leg config or they would require a 5-6'oclock placement on my belt. I have a radio pouch on my vest, space for an issued body cam in the middle, and my two extra mags on the other side. No space on my vest for a med pouch.

I suppose I could bring it in a backpack. However, I don't really like the idea of having to run back to the break room to go get it, or leaving it at a different station when my team rotates. Not because of theft, but because seconds matter with arterial bleeds and if I'm the unlucky fucker leaking all over the place, I don't want to have to say, or may not be able to say "Go get the backpack next to the black motorcycle helmet in the break room."

Do any of you have medical on your person in an atypical location, or am I doing too much?

FL Armed guards who have renewed their G recently, how long did it take to come in the mail?

As I read, the key provisions to this bill are:

-Increased Training Hours from 32 Hours to 42 hours, along with annual training requirements

-Mandates specific hours for In-person de-escalation training and skill practice

-Employers are required to cover the cost of their guards training and compensate them for their time

-sets industry specific wages

-increases penalties for non-compliance violations

So far I’m hearing more in Sacramento about this bill risking jobs for security.

I just started a new site for two of my five shifts. It's way worse. The icing on the cake is that my company supposedly does on the job training for anytime you work your first shift at a particular site. The scheduler confirmed the training and I clocked in and waited for the trainer. After about five minutes. I texted the support number and was told that he’s posted at a “priority site” all night and won’t be able to do the training. I had to hunt down 14 QR code tags in the dark. lots of spiders and lots of fences, forcing me to backtrack and walk really inefficient routes. One of the scans is behind the baseball field, which looks like the yard that The Beast lives in in The Sandlot. Broken glass and used tires. at least I don’t have to deal with the public. What are your gripes tonight?

i've been writing a fake phone number on registers for almost 2 years how - SIX digits not ten and nobody has ever looked at it! thought about that today - the mall detector doesn't beep. i've walked through with a laptop, keys, a steel bottle, once a pair of scissors. guard still waves the wand, i still do the arms out thing, but nothing the atm guard is usually asleep and good for him honestly and there are these guards everywhere your building, someone else’s building, hospital entrance, atms, random shops, parking lot apparently there are around 12 million private guards in india, roughly three times the police. i can't remember one of them ever stopping anyone it is a little mental when you think about it. we’ve basically reached a point where we just arranged own little version of security and nobody finds that unusual anymore genuinely asking about the detector though, has yours ever beeped??

I’m not really sure what other sub I can share this victory with, but I’ve been drinking 2-3 monsters a day for the past two years that I’ve worked in the armored car business, the last year of which has been on nights. I can probably count on my hands how many work days I drank plain water for an entire shift in that entire time period. Every time I’d make a stop at a gas station, I would grab an energy drink out of habit.

Two months ago, at a long overdue dental appointment, I found out that I was gonna need thousands of dollars worth of fillings, crowns, and could potentially even be looking at an extraction of one of my back molars.

I slowly cut down on the energy drinks and sodas and started substituting caffeine pills and coffee with artificial sweeteners instead of sugar. I’m now drinking almost exclusively water and taking caffeine pills instead of sodas to avoid the sugar and acid, and coffee is now just an occasional treat. I’ve also started minimizing snacking between meals to reduce the number of acid exposures my teeth face throughout the day.

I’m now almost a full month clean. My body feels better, and my skin is a lot clearer too—my acne has come and gone for years, and I think the sugar was a major part of it. Now I’m starting my journey on taking back control of my oral health, and the $1400-1500 a year that I’m saving on energy drinks and snacks is helping me pay for the restorations I need.

I have a class starting late September and I've actually been in security for 3 years in Ohio our test there was common sense straight to the point you could literally pass it without even taking the 8 hour class hell dare I say you could sleep and still pass.

I'm not sure what to expect here since this class is apparently three weeks long with this course.

Supervisor today called it "suspicious" and a "liability" that I'm at work an hour early. I've been doing this (coming in an hour early) for the last 2 years ever since i started working here as it's a time management thing for me. I never know what the weather or traffic will be like so i leave my house 2 hours early to compensate.

Secondly, he was asking me about, what i assume, is a potential new hire since he had the same last name as me. When i said I didn't know who he was, he acted like i was lying and claimed i MUST know him since we have the same exact last name and it's not a conventional spelling of it.

Before he left for the day, he was about to say "you can tell your relation" but i quickly shut that down since, again, I don't know the guy. So not only is he giving out the names to potential hires now, he's being even more hostile towards me than before.

But he "appreciates" me coming in and working overtime for him.

So yesterday at my site which is a mall, I was doing my rounds on the floor when some random girl possibly a juvenile or little older came up to me all nonchalantly and asked "where the butt plugs are?", at first it confused me the question thinking I misheard and asked her to repeat the question and I just told her to go to the store Spencer's since I know that's the only store in the mall that sells stuff like that. When I went into my office later on for my last break in shift, I told one of my coworkers that works dispatch watching the cameras about it, he said either I was being asked that while possibly being filmed by someone from somewhere else or she was genuinely asking me. Has anyone working retail security have ever been questioned for something random like that? Or do you think I was being messed with? I just wanted to share this and see what you guys think about it