Keeping Track

In Security there’s a lot of paper pushing involved if you work in the main office. It helps to take notes and write down everything (I would not have a blog without THAT philosophy). It helps a lot more to know where everyone is on their posts.

Where I work the Day Shift is very on the ball, but it’s the Night Shift that does the paper work. In fact the Supervisor of the Night Shift is a really good guy. Probably because he does not have to deal with the politics, but I digress.

Keeping track of your manpower is very important when your main goal is to secure something. Keeping track of who is where is important in any job that requires the maintaining of operations. Do not be like my manager; asking subordinates where so-and-so is posted. It is especially pathetic if you are the one who is supposedly in charge of posting officers.

Relief officers are the guards that switch out with the main officers, so that they can be relieved for lunch, bathroom breaks, etc. If a guard asks for a relief they are the ones that have to figure out where everyone is. Where I work we try to bypass the Security Office as much as possible. “What’s your location?” We ask or the guard states their location at the end of their message.

Try to ask the Security Office and all you get is either attitude or an “uhhhh” on the other line.