Anyone else get this?

[Andrew B.]

Last year, when I was doing my security work, I got a very rude woman coming up to my barricade.

(Warning: Slightly paraphrased)

AB: Cool security guy... no wait, he left, so it's just me.
RBM: Rude board member

AB: Do you have a pass or a ..

RBM: (Cutting me off): I need to get through, I'm a member of the board of <employer>.

AB: You do know that the other end of the street is completly blocked off, right?

RBM: Just let me through.

She then moves the barricade on the other end of the street. I don't know about you, but if you're a member of the company, shouldn't you know the rules and why they're there.

[BookstoreEscapee]

Just because you know the rules doesn't mean you shouldn't be exempt from them.

Right?

[Mr. Security]

Last year, when I was doing my security work, I got a very rude woman coming up to my barricade.

(Warning: Slightly paraphrased)

AB: Cool security guy... no wait, he left, so it's just me.
RBM: Rude board member

AB: Do you have a pass or a ..

RBM: (Cutting me off): I need to get through, I'm a member of the board of <employer>.

AB: You do know that the other end of the street is completly blocked off, right?

RBM: Just let me through.

She then moves the barricade on the other end of the street. I don't know about you, but if you're a member of the company, shouldn't you know the rules and why they're there.

haven't you learned this yet no one listens to us especially staff members of the place you work, there the worst when it comes to listening to security

[evilhomer]

I get that kind of thing all the time with people walking through my construction zones. I always verify what my response should be from a verbal request to physical impedement and removal.


These things are annoying as hell but don't let them get to you. Find out what you're allowed to / supposed to do and take the appropriate action. If they want to allow the type of behaviour that this bitch demonstrated, mention how the forceful "I'm supposed to be here" attitude is one of the most common scam methods for do-wrongers to bypass security. If they still don't care, why should you?

[TheRedHawk]

A couple years ago I worked as a security guard at a minor league baseball stadium that a major league team was using for spring training. During this time the back parking lot was closed off and only players, coaches, and other staff with proper permits were allowed in. The main problem was that spring training only lasts a month or two, and for the rest of the year the lot is open, and through it is the quickest way to get to a dog park, a zoo, and a duck pond. So even thought it happened every year, people didn't know that the lot was going to be closed.

My job was to stand at the open gate to the lot and wave people in or turn them away if they couldn't be there. There were two huge signs clearly stating that the lot was closed to the public. It always made me laugh how many people simply drove past me despite me waving at them to stop or standing in their way(forcing me to jump out of the way or die). Whenever this happened I would stand in front of the gate and watch as they drove to the other side of the lot...which was blocked by a closed and locked gate. Then they would drive back to me and ask why it was closed.

Most of the time when I explained what was going on they would apologize(but not for nearly running me down!) and ask for another way to their destination, which I would provide them. But there were a couple that would yell and argue and demand that I open the other gate for them, despite the fact that 1) I don't have a key to it, and B) In the time it would take me to walk there and open it for them they could have made it to their destination via the other route.

One guy was just funny:

Me:
OSG: Other Security Guard, day shift guard I was relieving
OM: Old Man

OM rides through the gate on a recumbent bicycle and shoots right on past OSG and myself and into the lot, despite both of us waving at him and yelling at him to stop. He gets halfway across the lot and sees the other gate, then turns and comes back to us. He starts circling us and complaining about the locked gate.

OM: Why's the gate closed?
Me: Spring Training. I'm sorry sir, but this lot is closed to the public until (whatever date Spring Training ended).
OM: That's bullshit! I pay my taxes!
OSG: So? We're security guards, not cops. Our pay doesn't come from taxes. Please leave.

And off he went, still yelling that he pays his taxes and other such things.

[Andrew B.]

I probably should have mentioned this. While techincally I was security, I was mainly a glorified parking attendant. The people who came up to me were in thier cars and if I tried to physically restrain them, I could have goten hurt or killed.

My purpose was to make sure the patrons who wanted to see the play could do so without being distracted by traffic as well as make sure that people who had paid for a space (still first come, first serve ) as well as handicapped people could have a safe place to park.

At least that woman never came back to my area.

[Apathy]

OSG: So? We're security guards, not cops. Our pay doesn't come from taxes. Please leave.

That's awesome. People who think they're the boss of police/state employees piss me off. Besides, you only pay taxes because you have to. It's not like you're doing anyone a favor.

[powerboy]

My first day of working Security, I had people like that.

It was at a luncheon. We had to make sure that no one would go past us, that didn't have the right badges. I was doing so good until I got in trouble, by the people that had hired us, for a coworker across from me - having to go the restroom. After that, I just let everyone that wanted too - walk thru it. That owner should have pissed me off.