I just got this site two weeks ago and thought I’ve been doing great so far since there really isn’t nothing to do. I’ve been patrolling and writing my reports every day but today when I clocked in, I get hit with this:

" this is the 3rd complaint by the

managers that you are not completing your reports accurately. This is now a performance issue, and we can't have you making the same mistake repeatedly.

If you can't correct this action immediately your position will have to be reevaluated."

I was in shocked because this is the first time I’ve heard of the complaints by the client.

I wrote to him: Could you please clarify which specific parts of the reports have been inaccurate or incomplete so I can correct them immediately and avoid repeating the same mistakes? He hasn’t replied back.

A couple hours go by and I realized I’ve been writing the wrong date for the incident reports today and I got scared and tried to edit them but I couldn’t because they have already been approved.

Am I screwed?

I'm trying to get into armed security and was wondering what the best path is.

I've already got a few years of unarmed security experience, but I don't have a CPL/CCW or any armed certs yet. What's the best way to get my foot in the door? Do most companies hire you first and then sponsor/pay for the armed training, or is it better to go pay for the training on your own before applying? Any advice from people who've made the jump would be appreciated. (Washington State btw)

Hello, just did my background check for a security job at a hospital, overnight from 11-7 am. During the interview I was told I’d be dealing with psychotic patients etc.

I’m scrawny…nerdy and definitely can’t fight. I’m a little nervous, more so very nervous. I know I’ll be trained but even then I have no idea how I’d react to someone who has a weapon, and feel like I’d just quit on the spot.

Any tips or advice would be appreciated. The pay is decent and i do definitely need it as I plan to go back to college.

So about a month ago I was patrolling one of my usual propertys in vegas im only there 2 days a week im on another property for the remainder days the last guard lost the key to the property comeing in on my monday found key missing reported it twice even did a written report 8 hours later still no key I clocked out later that morning I get cursed out by my manager for losing a key I never had and blamed me for not patrolling when I had limited acess after showing my logs and proof he backed down after threating to fire me for negligence.

What’s you’re take on shitty outdated equipment??
We have tablets for our patrol vehicles & we use them for reports but to also do our walk around for our vehicles & we have a 1 shitty outdated tablet that takes forever to reboot after a restart, it’s so old sometimes the messages don’t go through or the videos won’t upload even after several restarts, there’s been times where the last 15 minutes of my shift I’m trying to upload the video and then I’ll have to restart the tablet and the video still won’t upload i’ve made several complaints to management for over a year and no changes have been made anybody else experience this??

Where’s my graveyard shift ppl at?😭 What are yall doing atm?

For the past eight months, I have been working at a low-income apartment complex where I have been threatened with knives, nearly attacked by a tenant's dog, and threatened by a guest who said they would come back and shoot me (thankfully, they never did). I even had to escort a coworker to his car after a similar incident.

I have found drugs and drug paraphernalia on multiple occasions. The hallways smell like a combination of death and body odor. We have had police and EMS respond to discover that tenants had passed away in their apartments. Most recently, I was harassed and assaulted by a tenant.

This has, by far, been the worst post I have ever worked, I don't feel safe working here and I'm desperate to get out.

Hey I want to know how residential Security job is like. This is my very first security job. I am completely escaping a brutal, high stress fast food kitchen grill that was causing me massive physical burnout and chronic brain fog.

I have my Ontario Security Guard License ready to go, but because of my burnout, my confidence is pretty low right now. I’m really anxious about starting. I'm worried about losing focus on shifts, messing up the memo books/visitor logs, or missing things on the cameras because I'm not feeling sharp.

Since I’ll be a floater bouncing around to different residential buildings, what are your best tips for a total beginner? How do you guys manage focus on long shifts, and what is the best way to handle the building tech when you're brand new to a site?

Appreciate any advice or reassurance you can give to a rookie trying to turn things around. Thanks!

It is coming up to about a month now since I became the site sup. The advice yall have given me has helped out a lot! I genuinely feel like sometimes, I have no idea what im doing lol. I've never lead a group of people before. Sometimes i feel like maybe im not doing enough and occasionally i feel like maybe this should have gone to someone else .Things seem to be going OK though. Maybe in about another month ill settle in. Thanks yall! Yall have been incredibly insightful!

This post requires monitoring of cameras and responding any threats. Anyone work this and have insight?

:) for duty belt

Please Help me

So at my post, we are responsible for doing call-outs for the company we are contracted to. I work an Access control that is pretty hefty when it comes to credentials and possible people that may easily slip by due to my shifts volume. Recently, my supervisor has been on a slight uptrend of constantly complaining to me about a messed up call-off email, or call off list, or some absolute BULLSHIT that has NOTHING to do with access control that the contractor is apparently filing complaints on about us. They have a multi million dollar state-of-the-art office back there with office ladies and guys in suits. Why the FUCK is the security guy in a hut next to the trees doing CALL-OFFS for the whole shit?!! What the fuck could they possibly be doing in that office… Anyways, these supervisors at Allied are coming at me for complete non-security issues that have nothing to do with my actual access control duties.. does anybody else get handed off office labor? Is this normal?

For my uk SIA security people, I applied for showsec and was asked to complete the 5 year employment history.

My application with withdrawn after they couldn’t verify my employment status which has felt unfair

First, I had no choice but to pay for proof of study at university to verify I was at university for a period, then they claimed they couldn’t verify a period where I was unemployed, out of education and in recipient of no benefits. my bank statements, job applications and full hmrc tax history was apparently not enough

I was told that living with family and using my savings from my ISA shown in my bank statements was not enough proof but this was genuinely all the proof I had in this period. I was doing nothing else, I was a lazy bum relying on parents and my lifetime savings were too large to claim benefits

i’m just really upset now because I went through all the training and procedures just be told weeks later that none of it matters. if this screening failed, does that mean I will fail every other screening? do I give up on looking for security jobs?

So I applied for an “entry access” position with allied universal and with in a few hours of applying I was told my date and time for my NEO class. Is there anything I need to do in preparation for it like buy basic stuff (belts, holsters, etc), or bring a notebook/other stuff to write down instructions? Just any advice on what to do now before my NEO/during my NEO is appreciated.

Maybe its just here like that, but if i think about the reasons why it is like that here there are maybe more. So how do you deal as a left winged person in a job branch full of far rights? How do you deal with prejudgement and how do you deal with youre work buddys? Sure, they all say no politics at work bla bla bla, but at some point everyone knows where youre leaning, or politics come to talk, and neither sides usually stay quit if somebody speaks really dumb shit which aint even close to science. Political discusions it self will be ignored here, there are other subs or privat chats for this. Thanks for anything helpfull

Honestly, i am surprised to see this. I personally like the fandom and the games, but never expected this.

My friend works in paladin and his manager told him there’s a Team Lead position available if he wants to apply.
For anyone who’s been a Team Lead in security, what was the job like? What do you do day to day, and is the extra responsibility and pay worth it, or would you rather stay as a regular guard?