In the beginning of my career as a security officer, I was sent to every company that needed an extra guard. I would usually only be at a site for no longer than a month and no shorter than two weeks. I really enjoyed going from a studio lot one day to a software company the next. I did not enjoy all of my supervisors. I've had the pleasure of working with and being mentored by some great bosses and supervisors, but they usually come few and far between the many horrible bosses I've unfortunately had to work with. I had several supervisors who've stolen company property, and I don't mean pens and paper clips to supervisors who lied on their applications, and then there are the average supervisors who just aren't good at their job.
The following is just one example from my past.
Jim my first official shift leader. Jim was an encourageable poon hound. He checked out every woman as she walked by without fail. After some time the flirting and compliments were just known too many employees as "Jim being Jim". I worked with Jim for 3 years and during that time I learned a lot about being personable and a good front desk officer. In the beginning, things were fun I was 21 and working with Jim was fun. He liked to joke about the different parts of the job and would keep it real with you if you really messed up. As a shift leader, the first two years were awesome.
The last year was just as fun, but I and the other officer we worked with had started to grow up. We had just begun to be more mature about the job we did. Jim would request break relief and then when I or the other officer would go to relieve him, Jim would strike up a conversation that would last longer than his break. We found ourselves reminding him to go on break after a pause in his story or better yet before he can get started. We (I wasn't the only ones who noticed this and we could feel all eyes were on us and our performance.)
In his last week, Jim had taken a magnum size vodka bottle from a company party, pilfered gifted wine to an employee on vacation, and cursed out an employee. The employee was wrong, but Jim handled his indiscretion worst than he should have. The nail in the coffin was something I wouldn't find out about until a week later.
I was asleep when my phone rang. I looked at the screen to see Jim calling. When I answered, Jim, asked, " Guess what?"
(I hate it when humans ask me this. The answer could be anything in the Universe.) I guessed, "what are they firing me?" Jim enthusiastically upset yelled, "Nah, they fired me!" He said he had called the other officer who responded the same way, and questioned why we would think that, but then quickly moved on to the gossip of why we shouldn't trust the HR rep responsible for firing him.
Working for a security company many times you aren't fired you're just removed from post and if you're good at what you do the company will counsel you and place you on another site. Most good officers only miss a week, at most, of work.
Jim didn't have to worry about counseling. The studio would not say why they wanted him removed. That same HR rep defended Jim's ability to do his job but maintained their company was no longer in need of his services. I was given the job temporarily.
What did Jim do? Jim decided to take him flirting to the next level. He sent an email from the company security email account asking an employee if she would be interested in an affair. I couldn't believe he could do something that dumb. I mean he didn't even bother to attempt to get her phone number.
I was given his position temporarily as they had decided to hire a new company. What Jim did was about to cost us all our jobs. Unfortunately, an employee had a medical emergency and our ability to quickly handle the situation was the only reason the studio chose to keep us and even gave us raises when the new company took over.
Jim, last I heard he was happy at his new post working security for a large fashion company where according to him "some of the finest women he's ever seen" work.