u/Several-Agent6831

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.