Guards with guns at work

[Smoke]

One trueism is that IF an apartment complex realizes they have enough of a problem to need security gaurds, the problems are really so bad, they need off duty local LE .

I talked to a supervisor for the company that does security for the apartments I live in once. I asked what their armed pay was, she wanted to know why I asked and I told her our armed guys made 15.00 and I wanted to see if I could do better with them.

She looked at me like a starving dog at meat and told me I wasn't gonna get 15.00 bucks from her employer.

The guys that check our apartments are all unarmed and make about 10.50$ to work in a neighborhood where I won't walk out the door unarmed

 

[GaryS]

Yeah, no doubt that's what he was doing. It just LOOKED like he was leaning against the wall texting with his friends.

I carry a work smart phone.

I clock in and out on it

It tracks me on my rounds

It has a watch clock app so that when I check an area I can use it to scan a barcode and my employer knows where I was and when I was there.

The access lists for the client are on it

I can fill out my reports on it and it syncs to my computer.

I can use it as a body cam

I can even use the phone

 

[GaryS]

Prior to 9/11 a trooper told me that the private security at the airport was there to serve as shrapnel sponges.

Once had an ARMED security guard tell me that his main purpose was to provide a false sense of security.

 

[Smoke]

Yeah, no doubt that's what he was doing. It just LOOKED like he was leaning against the wall texting with his friends.

I'm not going to lie and say I don't waste time on my phone at work but I'm almost always on camera and they do review the tapes so if I do check my phone I wait till I'm in a room (Server rooms, com rooms, mechanical rooms) the client employees don't have access to.

There's a mechanical room in the building I work in that only Maintenance and security have access to that we kind of use as an unofficial break room.