Ronny’s Thoughts

As some of you might know (those that I actually know personally) I am currently (by working i mean on hold till they find me a place) working for a security company… Yea. I know. Me doing security. Well anyway the point is that there are things about this sort of work that I expected and did not meet up to those expectations. On the other hand there are things that I did not expect that hit me in the face like a brick. Not the red bricks that every one is accustomed to seeing. I am talking about something like a cinder block stuffed with concrete. Ok so this might be an exaggeration but it get the point across.

First the expectations. For one I expected to be doing the usual henchmen sort of thing. You know walking around patrolling with a flashlight and a 2-way radio to report strange noises. Well the 2-way radio was there and their was some hourly patrol. I also expected to be sitting down in a security office looking at a huge number of screens. That display the feeds of every camera on site. Well… there was one screen… and about 16 cameras (for a 2-3 floor, and about half an acre building) that would go in and out when they feel like it. Oh and no office, no little glass room, with a sliding window, but rather 2 computers at a desk in the main lobby that is wide open for every one to see. To see the cameras that we watch, to see what we keep track off, to see basically up our noses. I would say ass but thank God (I use God metaphorically, I am not religious) they have the camera rite behind us to do that with. Yea thats rite they watch the watchers. Anyway on to the other stuff.

The things that I did not expect. Some of the things that I did not expect to be doing is the secretary stuff. Did I lose you? Well let me explain. On top of being security we are also secretaries. We take phone calls and direct them to where they need to be directed to, take in mail, packages and the newspaper. To be hones i see that this is just a way to save money and not have to hire secretaries and not spend cash on getting an office for the security guys. And then there is the second security company in the building. Thats rite 2 of them. TWO. This makes it a pain in the ass to coordinate shit that goes on in the building. Then if it goes wrong just take a guess who they blame. I am not going to go into too much details because its some part of the contract that I don’t talk about the inner workings of the system. As if it there was a system.

Now there are some good things that I did not expect. The people. Well… most of them. From my manager who got me out of a lot of trouble, to the gentlemen that left before he was taken out (and before I was taken out) who gave me advice that I should have taken with a bit more precaution, in his words “Do the job and thats it” He basically told me to just come in and take up space because if you do more than that, you will only get burned. Holly shit was he on the money with that one. Then there are some of the other officers and supervises that I have worked with. All cool people. My over night super whom never had a problem sharing. The weekend super who would teach me the ways of chilling but still get shit done. Then there are the officers who put up with me when I became a super. Can’t forget about the new guys that came in before I was sent out. One quite at first but can talk like crazy when comfortable. And the other that was an all around cool guy. To top it off some of the customers (you know who you are MZ, there is someone else but I don’t want to write names, clue: his in over nights).

As flow are some images from work: