u/HighGuard1212

Working at a Coast Guard base, contract armed security.

First off the Coast Guard isn't too fond of having contract guards on the base so our existence places us on thin ice already.

Second we only man the gate and conduct perimeter patrols, we are not allowed into the buildings despite the expectation that we are to respond to any emergency in the buildings (good luck with that plan).

So this one guy decided to start poking around the inside of the buildings since it was ok for him in his mind. I don't know the extent of where he went and what he saw but I know he was going somewhere to grab loose candy along with going to shipping and receiving to grab cleaning supplies for our tiny shack on his own initiative.

Last week the CG became aware of his escapades somehow and reviewed footage of him inside, I talked to him Sunday before I left for vacation and he was defensive and said it wasn't wrong for him to do it and blah blah blah. Refused to accept any responsibility for it so he was shit canned yesterday. So now I can come back from my vacation with an extra 12 hours to work on overnight.

Working contract security at a USCG base. It's an extremely simple job, we just sit in the shack checking IDs and walk the perimeter once an hour.

I have to sit next to this guy 16 hours a week and it's like he doesn't have a filter on. Just today he had been complaining about how he got in trouble this week because he went into multiple areas that he wasn't supposed to and he is blaming everyone but himself for it.

Non stop complaining about how unfair it is that he's in trouble, complaining about how there is a new txt message on the group chat every morning telling us that we did something wrong (there isn't), and how the phone going off keeps him from sleeping (do not disturb?!?!?), arguing with me about who is covering my shift tonight while I'm on vacation ( I don't care if it's co worker A or B. I'm not here).

He keeps making this "joke" about how everyone is coming to my house for thanksgiving and won't let it die.

And now he keeps making this weird comment about how I should want to spend more time with my dog, the dog I don't have.

I don't recall this one.

So I have done unarmed security for 6 years, and I am just starting an contracted armed position at a military base. Now that I'm pistol qualified I was shown how to access the armory and I asked to confirm if I needed to chamber a round at the start of a shift, I was told not to. Just load a magazine and take 2 spares but don't chamber a round, is this normal? I expected that I would have to have a round chambered

I completed the digital interview with the recorded questions and multiple choices on the 22nd. Kinda wondering if I should have heard back from someone at this point

Got fired last week, told I could talk to the labor relations person in HR if I wanted to dispute it, gave a couple tries last week but wasn't able to get a hold of her. Managed to do it today, I figured I probably wasn't going to get my job back but thought I could put some people in the hot seat for a bit. I started talking to her and then about 90 seconds in the phone call disconnected (no big deal as it happens) so I call her back and get her voice mail, hang up give it a couple minutes and get the voice mail again, gave it about 10 minutes tried again and again get a voice mail. I left a message asking if we could resume our conversation, but I'm not holding out hope

I just lost my job today at the conclusion of my training. The separation meeting was filled with nothing with generic comments without pointing out specific failures. Now my mother, who I don't live with and see maybe 2-3 times a year (last time? Christmas) despite her living 2 hours away and driving 3 hours to see my brother and his kids almost daily it feels like, is attacking me. She keeps going on about my appearance being unsightly to people and telling me I should get GLP-1 injections like my rich lawyer brother (I'm ~194lb and 6'2") and then telling me I eat too much (she has no clue what I eat or how much, I've ordered delivery once this year) and thats why I'm fat.

She has her own issues with her appearance (before my brothers wedding it was on and on about how ugly she was and she was going to embarrass him for being so ugly and the constant dieting, I'm seen her dinner it like two english muffins and a veggie sausage) and now she is trying to project those onto me. fml

I have no tattoos, piercings, no colored hair, shower frequently, clean clothes (best I could anyways seeing as they only gave me a single pair of uniform pants and 2 shirts). I'm certainly not the most good looking person out there but to claim my appearance is the reason for my job loss???

I was looking over my new employers health insurance plan and while searching for gender stuff in the medical summary plan description, I saw that Gender Reversal surgery is excluded. Someone please tell me this is different then Gender affirming surgery

So this is a bit complicated so hopefully I explain it correctly.

I (39 y/o) just started a job with a large hospital that provides its own insurance to employee, with the only downside being the hospital and it's affiliates are the entire network (I live near the hospital and don't travel outside the area too often). Before this I was/am on BC/BS Federal Employee through my father as a dependent (thanks ACA), even through I don't live close to my parents and am independent of them.

I have a 12 month probationary period so I don't want to just throw away what I have and put all my eggs in one fragile basket, and would like to keep the BC/BS in the back pocket just in case till I get this job on solid ground. My mother is yelling at me that A) I have to disclose when I have multiple health insurances and B)I can't just take myself off the BC/BS plan whenever I want as its up to the insurance company to decide as I am a dependent.

Neither of these things sound right to me but I am not knowledgeable in this sort of stuff, so how much is what she is saying true

There was a stabbing at the end of the last year that resulted in the realization that the protective vests they had aren't enough (officer got stabbed in the leg while two officers took slashes across their vest, old vest was just kevlar), as a result of this they haven't purchased any new ones while they search for a new one with stab protection. I just finished my third week of training and am now moving onto field training, when I inquired as to the status of picking up my vest and additional uniforms(supplier still hasn't delivered those) I was told that they have not placed the order for new vests and that it will be approximately 45 days for delivery.

So now I had to shell out $700 for a vest because I would rather have it then not since getting knives pulled isn't as uncommon as we would like because of all the homeless shelters around the hospital. Great benefits and the best paying hospital in the area (there are a lot of hospitals in the area each with their own public safety department and the prevailing wage isn't that much above an unarmed contract guard) but still.

Hospital public Safety department. Week 2 of training was dt training, and today was the day we got sprayed by oc followed by defensive baton blocking and then handcuffing the "attacker". I have never been in so much pain and it was only about 48 seconds long. It's been a few hours and I am still exhausted and my eyes still string. Showered but that didn't help

Never want to do that again

After nearly a month of following up follow-ups I got myself a new job at another hospital then the one I am working at. However my report date for the new job Monday morning so I went ahead and quit my job yesterday, still under 90 days , through the only way I knew how to contact the account managers, through whentowork messages since they don't mingle with mere officers (they are basically boogiemen, no one below the sgt and LT has met them). I have not heard anything from them and my schedule has not changed.

So no doubt I will be considered a no call no show tonight which is more an annoyance than any serious impediment since Im quitting but still irks me and shows just how incompetent this place is and why I am done with contract security