u/Several-Agent6831

I've got this older colleague who's 57 and been working at this company for 16 years. I on the other hand have only been here for about 3 months. Unlike others who would find sitting in an office for 12 hours a day, excluding patrols, and doing nothing as a dream job and I love watching YouTube but at the end of the day I still need to do some work or I get bored. This often results in me sending off 10 to 12 emails during the night and weekend shift when I'm on my own. I rotate between night and day shift. I also do 4 days on and 4 days off and I get bored by day 3 off so when overtime comes, I take it.

This guy on the other hand seems quite miserable and doesn't exactly enjoy that I like the job but like I said, I get bored when I've got nothing to do. The same with my 3 other colleagues who like doing nothing. This older colleague on the other hand has the same position as me and hasn't been given a promotion allegedly due to a disciplinary because he booked another employee off years ago. I doubt this is true and the reason he hasn't been promoted is due to the fact that this guy is good at his job and training someone to that level takes a long time.

Another thing is that the manager seems to have thing against my colleague because when my colleague messes up, he gets told off much more than the others because he's been here longer. I'm lucky that I don't get told off by my manager. Two of my other colleagues got told off quite bad and the last was in the manager bad books for asking for a shift change only 1 month into the job

My job Is security officer at a construction site but our patrols isn't about dealing with people other than the occasional homeless person. Most of the job includes looking for graffiti that the builders themselves did, water leaks and other stuff. We also have to deal with emails like printing out and handing out permits which gives construction workers the permission to work in a specific area and for a specific task. We also hand out keys which we have to make sure get returned. I feel like it's less about security and more like a mix of front desk and caretaker.

This one kind of confused me. I get it if you're working for the government or part of an embassy but what's the point of private security with flags on their clothes. I'm assuming that it's the same reason why some places dress their officers as police, to scare people. Maybe it's a cosmetic attachment people like. I keep a little space marine model in the office where I work and my colleague has a little magnet frog, makes the place feel more comfortable.

When I first went Into a Warhammer store, I enjoyed playing the introductory game and painting my first model but one thing I could feel in that store, it felt soulless. When I explained that I planned on buying a set at a later period, the staff ignored that and took me to the sets to purchase one there which I declined.

I was given a battle honours which I thought was a nice idea in theory. For those who don't know, it's a magazine with things to do in various aspects like reading, painting, collecting and others and when you complete tasks, the staff stamp it and you can claim the prize at the end of each.

The first few tasks are relatively easy and fun however it starts asking you to buy entire sets to get one stamp and in order to fully complete the entire the magazine, you'll be throwing a few hundred. To make it worse, the prizes are lame and honestly it feels like a letdown.

I think the tasks should be simpler and not require me to spend so much and the prizes should be better. The company can afford to give better prizes instead of a badge after you've spent hundreds. I mean Warhammer fans are often lifelong fans who'll spend dozens of times what the prizes cost.

This is something I hate at work. We have to hand out these keys and the people have to return them yet many chose not to and instead act like it's my job to go chasing after them because they don't bother returning the key. I asked my colleague and he said that there's really only one guy who can do it since that guy always returns the key but has bad memory and accidentally takes it home. My colleague said it's not your job to chase after people so report it plus if the key goes missing it'll be my fault for not reporting it immediately and the company will have to pay for a new lock and key since we don't have spares.

There's this one manager from a construction company who on two occasions didn't return the key. I let it slide both times because another manager from the same construction company told me that the guy would bring it back. It happened a third time and I had enough and reported it. When I report it, it goes to my security manager, the day to day operational manager of the building as well as the asset manager. The construction manager who didn't return the key was angry about being reported but I said it wasn't my job to chase after people.

Anyone dealing with similar things?

A few days ago the main fire alarm went off at work whilst I was on patrol outside and the local shop attached to the construction building called the firefighter on the two occasions it happened whilst I was outside so I did not call the fire fighters myself but I felt horrible for the firefighters who sent 3 trucks at 00:00 and 06:00 and spend around 15 minutes on both occasions. The construction company and security company knows the fire panels don't work and instead of spending the necessary money every month to get all contaminated smoke detectors replaced, they would rather us call the firefighters. I apologized on both occasions and one of them seemed quite annoyed because she arrived both times.

To be honest I think the law should require all construction sites to replace contaminated smoke detectors or face fines and charge for every unnecessary callout.

I do this only if it's a first time thing but if it's persistent then it's got to be moved on to building management.

Two examples of this was a barrier and a door being opened which was kind of serious.

At the construction site I work at, barriers should only be in front of doors if some dangerous work is going on inside and must be removed immediately after as it's a hazard if someone has to take the longer route through the stairs to get inside the room whilst holding heavy equipment. At a construction site there isn't much work to do so the client is really insistent on us documenting anything so it seems like we're useful and worth the contract. Despite this I don't report most as it's often a one off.

Another more serious one was a sliding door that was left open. Someone decided to open that door to get outside instead of just going the long way to the main door however this door opens up to the public and anyone can walk in. I spoke with the supervisor for the construction workers on that day. It was a Saturday which is why there's one supervisor for 50 people as it's a slow day unlike a weekday with multiple supervisors as it's chaotic most time. I asked the supervisor about it and I said that if he could speak internally with the person who did it then I wouldn't have to involve management.

Last week during a patrol I had to tap the phone against a digital patrol point to prove I had been into the room. I wasn't aware that these rooms with digital keys can open on the inside without a key since I've never seen that happen and all of these doors are open at all times. My office has an issue where if the door is locked then you can't open it from the inside and I thought all of the doors with digital keys are like that.

As a result I used a portable light to keep the door from being shut. I totally forgot to remove the light and shut the door and when I went back to work today I got told by a colleague that he and another colleague got a real bollocking (British for being told off bad). Turned out one colleague got in trouble for not telling me how all the doors work since he's a senior colleague and knows the whole building as well as being responsible for teaching new people to the building. The other colleague got in trouble since he was on days right after that night shift and didn't spot the door wedged open so it was assumed he wasn't paying attention on his patrols. The email regarding it got sent out to everyone as the room is the server room with all the private information and the light I used is considered an emergency light. It went all the way up to building management and every contractor in the building.

I learned to never make that mistake again.

My company is filled with executives who are ex military and their motto is military focused, not saying motto to hide the company I work for.

This expands into these useless intelligence briefs. There's a whole department in the company who's whole job is to write intelligence briefs and I've read them and I can assure you that they sound like they were copy and pasted from the BBC. To be honest, these intelligence briefs suck.

It's just stuff about upcoming protests that aren't near any of the locations and with no actual important information. What's the point of making a major deal about a protest if I nor the client know why its important? Is there going to be drunk people, will protesters try entering the locations, can we expect items to be thrown at employees? Nope, none of that, we wouldn't want these useless pen pushers to give us useful information because their purpose in life is to copy and paste information whilst not stating why they've deemed a protest a medium risk.

On top of that, management is also quite useless when it comes to these things. For example saying keep political opinions out of work which is fine but that goes two ways. Why are these intelligence briefs labelling Israeli action in Gaza as "military action" whilst Russian military action in Ukraine is an "illegal invasion". The company is literally stating in the same intelligence brief that it is politically biased. Just say both is military action or don't include either because protests connected to them are in no way relevant to the client who only wants to know if the employees left windows opened and whether there's litter at the front door.

Another thing management said was to be aware that extreme left protesters are just as violent as far right protesters. Do you want to take a guess on whether this was backed by any data? The answer is no, we haven't been provided with information on what counts as an extreme left protester or their motivation or methods for "violence". If I was a client and was told there was extreme left protesters then I would want to know what this looks like and whether they pose a threat but we can't have the company actually being useful and telling us why something is a threat, just copy and paste it from the BBC and call it an intelligence brief so the executives can relive their military days.

I work in a construction site in London and my first introduction with the head of operations in London was bad.

We have this office and the entrance door is opposite so we can see who's at the door. At this particular time, my colleague had gone for break and I had been on the computer dealing with the emails. Because of this, I was in a position where I was unable to see the door which is fine because there's a doorbell and if the doorbell isn't working then the person can knock.

So I'm in the office and the head of operations is doing a random check and rings the doorbell. The doorbell doesn't work and this snob is "too good to use his hands and knock like a damn human being because using their delicate hands to knock is something a peasant does". This is actually the same with all management staff from my security company and the various contractors who work on site. The doorbell doesn't work and I'm on the computer working on the emails when suddenly he comes in through the door because a construction worker decided to act like a fucking hero and let this snob inside despite me repeatedly telling all the construction workers, DO NOT OPEN THE DOOR FOR OTHERS. The snob tells me to call my senior colleague downstairs and then when my colleague comes downstairs, the snob has a go at my colleague for my own mistakes which kind of sucked since it's not my colleague fault.

My colleague basically explained how the emails are to management at the construction company and that I can't just move from the computer and sit in a position where I am visible from the entrance and how the doorbell doesn't work and how I always tell people to not open the doors. The snob doesn't care and just says I should have "made it work". Like how can I possibly sit away from the computer whilst answering important emails?

That was not a very good first encounter with my city boss.