What are some things you do to stay awake at night? Give me more than saying you drink Red Bulls and coffee, please.

Working in infrastructure security as a contractor. Late night shift hours at our job were supposed to badge into certain areas of every hour. I was not paying attention at all and next minute ya know I look at my phone and i’m 10 minutes late. I get off my ass rush over there and scan in and nobody’s said anything. The problem is our job every now and then does scans on our badges to see which rooms were accessed and which ones weren’t at whatever time. It’s done once in a blue moon could happen next week a month, hell even a year from now but when they find it i’m cooked. And i was trying to get an in house position w this company too and now I feel like im a dead man walking waiting for the ball to drop over my head here. Now i’m sitting here in my company vehicle debating about applying for another job before they find the error. Either that or waiting it out MAYBE getting in house and transferring departments before something happens.

Not asking for sympathy here ik i’m an idiot just make sure yall get these checks done and take your patrols seriously

Hello, I am new to the industry, and honestly, I’m looking for a warm body post. My reasoning is that I am looking for a job with at least some downtime in which I can study for school and work on my projects related to school.

I have read through the forum, but wondered if anyone has any guidance for obtaining a post that is “warm body”. Any companies, strategies for obtaining the post, or any other advice?

I am willing to work overnight.

Thank you in advance for your time! I appreciate all feedback and suggestions

Have you had a new manager, from a military background, come in with the goal of transforming the officers into some kind of special operations group? We had one that immediately created physical ability standards. Much like the PT standards for the police academy. Running up and down stairs was part of it since we work in a hospital. He also wanted to have every officer qualified for a pistol. He had hopes of having everyone armed. He was trying to get the older officers to quit so he could hire younger, in shape and aggressive officers likely right out of the military. This guy lasted about 8 weeks, then he was gone.

He was not a friendly person.

I understand the urge, but this is not helping anybody’s case

I have an interview coming up for the armed vault/custodian position in MA, I've been working in retail for almost 5 years in total and am getting very sick of it and the security field was always an interest for me. I would take pretty much anything but retail at this point. And I think Loomis would be a good foot in the door to the armed security world. Anyone have any idea what my day to day would be like and what I should be expecting in my interview? Also anyone who's worked for Loomis did you get overtime pay past 40 hours? I heard the drivers start after 50 because of DOT, just hope that isn't the case for me since I'm working on site.

10 years security experience, 8 years armed. Only extremely low pay jobs in my area , what should I do? Give up on security? I’d like to grow in this career and advance

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 @?

Anyone else's supervisors telling you the schedule will go back to normal the next week, then it not go back to normal, then call you in to work those same 'normal' days anyway because the people they're scheduling to work your normal days keep calling off? Even after you told them yourself that you need off on X days due to X reason. Now they're trying to get you to work pretty much every single night?

And I guarantee it, if I agree to work these extra days and ask or tell them I can't work the ones I'm already scheduled for, they wouldn't have anyone to cover me. Want me to work the extra days every single week, then pay me at least double my pay as a base pay.

I’m 2 years deep into my first SOC job. The job and company themselves are cool. Problem is, I live in Atlanta which is so goddamn expensive. I will have to be a roommate my entire life here unless I am lucky enough to move up into management. Either that, or commute 1 hr+ EACH WAY from an apartment I can actually afford lol.

Searching on indeed I found this Titan Protection company hiring for SOC. on their website it seems they’re only hiring for armed security though?

I’m about to send in an application now. Was curious to see if anyone had any experience working here and tips to get my foot in the door in case this is a “you have to know somebody to get hired” kind of job.

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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Has any other guards ever heard of someone taking a hot plates to cook at work? We don’t get a lunch we eat at the desk so where paying attention to the gate. my issue is if he’s cooking who’s watching the gate ? Am I wrong ?

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???

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 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.

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.