Who is a Security Officer?

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chadintex

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Hey folks, I notice that a few of us are involved in the security industry. I thought it would be nice to get to know a little more about each other so, what type of facility are you in, how long have you been doing it, do you like it, and anything else you want to say?
Myself: My name is Chad and I work in an art museum in Dallas. I started about 7 years ago working the traditional retail/warehouse/construction site thing and moved to my current company 4 years ago where I went to work in high rise office buildings. After two years of that I transferred over to this newly opened museum. The staff and facility are small, but it's a nice place to work. In a few more years I will have my own high rise and that is my career goal. So, anybody else?

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Beware the three D's: The dumb, drunk, and deranged. Chadintex@hotmail.com
 
What type of facility are you in? - Corporate Campus, telecommunications industry - Plano, TX.

How long have you been doing it? - Around 5 ½ years - Too long.

Do you like it? - Sometimes - Better than living in the streets - Helps pay the bills and for school - Enough OT to pay for my 4-gun-a-month habit.

Anything else you want to say? - Don't believe for a second that contract security companies, in general, care about providing the best service possible. Oh yeah, they say they do when the time comes to sign a contract, but when it comes down to it, all they care about is a pulse and/or warm body - It's all about making money, and pulses and warm bodies make money. See, if a company can't fill a contractually required position, they can't bill the client, so quality and security is often compromised by hiring anyone that walks through the door. Just look in the Sunday Classifieds - "Apply Today, Start Tomorrow!" Yeah, these are the people protecting you at work.

Whether good service is provided is pretty much up to an individual's work ethics and whether I'm allowed to weed-out the slackers (at my particular location). Being a supervisor who cares about quality of work, I sometimes find it difficult working for an agency that seemingly doesn't, but I try my best, I guess.

Whenever I begin thinking these negative thoughts, I just think of the next gun that will be funded with my next chocked-full-of-overtime check! :D

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[This message has been edited by Bulldog (edited May 27, 2000).]
 
i am currently part time pink(full time dad right now) was shift supevisor(nights) on a steel mill for 5 years. local pinkerton office was hiring "see lightning hear thunder" bodies
still is as far as i know. they just hire lots of them and fire them in droves.

rms/pa
most corperations have the security they are willing to pay for and put up with.
if they had REAL security the executives would quit.
 
I work security for a large telecommunications company in Plano, Texas. Been at the job nearly a year now, but it's nothing like the nuclear weapons security I did in the military. Only problem with the job is a supervisor that's a Glock and Shiner fanatic, that buys four guns a month. :)

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Sword:
I work security for a large telecommunications company in Plano, Texas. Been at the job nearly a year now, but it's nothing like the nuclear weapons security I did in the military. Only problem with the job is a supervisor that's a Glock and Shiner fanatic, that buys four guns a month. :)
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Whats starting pay for that aweful job, four gun a month habit? What shifts do you need filled? :)

I have worked security at several places but the pay was low and the quality as stated in this thread.
 
Glamdring: When I started here in '94, I was making $6.50/hour. My current salary is more than twice that amount - I'm not rich, but it'll do... for now. Current starting pay is a "whopping" $9/hr, depending on qualifications and education.

Also take into consideration, I have no wife or kids that would otherwise absorb my income.

We can't hire you - If we did, I wouldn't have the OT that is necessary to support my habit! :D
 
Well that is okay. I am up in MN :)

I wish I could afford 4 guns a month though :D I though I was living high on the hog when I got my Steyr Scout.
 
Not amy more but in past worked a number of jobs in the Fargo Moorhead area. MN and ND. Everything from campus security to hotel,newspaper,jewlry store,rollerskating arena. Still remember one of the firms I worked for. Went like this. Do you know how to use a gun??? Yes.... Pick up that holster behind you. I pick up a old model 10 in thumb break holster. The thing was loaded with ammo that was darn near green. The gun rattled when picked up. Next question was if I would be ok if they signed me off as taking the 6hr training course as they wanted me to work that evening. I told them to do what ever they wanted but I would not sign anything. Also I would carry my own gun. Which I always carried under my unifform jacket. My supervisor had his gun taken away from him at Skateland in Fargo but I took it away from the gal and pinned her with a arm bar to the carpet. The supervisor ordered my NOT to report this to the police or file a report. I quit that agency soon after. BTW I never got any training from them other then a quick walk through of a business.
 
Ha. I worked for one security company in Winona MN that had lost the ability to carry guns at all because one of their clowns who was doing security for the high school pulled a gun on some HS kids because they went off campus in a car to get lunch.

The really scary thing was the other security company in that town was WORSE!!!

Course they won't give citizens CCW's here in MN till after your dead, unless you have good political connections.
 
Bulldog, the warm body thing is why I work in house. My company owns most of the buildings we work in. We have a great HR section and instead of being a security company, we are a division of a large real estate company. My bosses were sick of security officers that couldn't produce so they hire their own now. One of the good things is that we are not restricted to security, I now people who started in security and are property managers now.

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Beware the three D's: The dumb, drunk, and deranged. Chadintex@hotmail.com
 
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>My bosses were sick of security officers that couldn't produce so they hire their own now.[/quote]

In a world that is centered around money, what you describe is a rarity, in my opinion. Usually, it's the other way around. Many corporations feel that they can save money by hiring an outside agency, pay less per person, and not worry about benefits.

Just take Texas Instuments and Ratheon, for example - These are corporations that, at one time, had an entirely in-house security staff and are now trying to save a buck by hiring contract agencies for certain functions. In my opinion, it wont be long before they are entirely contracted.

I'd much rather work in-house (IE: EDS, Oxidental, Mary-Kay, Belo), but after working my way up to my current salary, I wouldn't look forward to the rather large pay-cut I'd have to take.

Hopefully, though, once I get my butt into a Police Academy and get a LEO job, all of this will fade into the past.

[This message has been edited by Bulldog (edited May 29, 2000).]
 
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