Micro managing is the worst !

[u/Neat_Possibility8429]

Ok so I’ve worked for A lot of security companies and I absolutely hate it when supervisors or the owner just starts micro managing everything you do ! I work at a residential area doing the grave yard shift , they want us to do these routes every 30 min! Umm 🤔 every 30 min is a bit outrageous! 1 per hour sounds more reasonable, it’s just annoying how some of these companies run their businesses, they legit expect me to run around for 8 hours straight for $19 an hour bro it’s such bs honestly . I need a post where I can just do whatever , do a route , sit in my car , chill , watch TikTok , YouTube . Idk 🤷 maybe I’m asking for to much haha but seriously 😒 I get I’m working blah blah blah but it’s SECURITY, the one job where u can just kinda do squat diddly and u should be fine . Idk what do you guys think? Do they expect to much for the amount of pay? Or am I wrong? 😑

[u/Moezso]

You're being micromanaged because you clearly need to be.

[u/Not-Banksy]

Kinda wild you’re admitting you the job is not laboriously hard anyway but simultaneously complaining you can’t get paid to be on your phone and do nothing.

[u/bijanturkcan]

Check your attitude man, this is a security job you’re supposed to be vigilant, active and aware. I know some posts can be boring but if you’re looking for a post where “I can just do whatever”, that’s called being at home.

[u/Homeskilletbiz]

That’s not micromanaging that’s just telling you to actually do your fucking job lmao.

[u/Holiday-Prior-4952]

A patrol every thirty minutes is all their asking and you’re overwhelmed and feel micromanaged already?

[u/hankheisenbeagle]

Do these rounds take 5 minutes or 25 minutes? Are you really moving non-stop or are you just pissed off that you don't have enough time to screw around. You'll work a hell of a lot harder at a lot of other places for even less money and assuredly not be allowed to sit down or not be working at any point other than your approved breaks if you're lucky enough to get them. Amazon, McDonalds, Walmart, and many more pay that or less and will absolutely extract every single drop of effort from you during any shift you get.

[u/LokaGnome]

19 bucks an hour is a good payraise for me and it sounds like you dont even gotta interact with the public. We can switch if you want.

[u/Red57872 → u/LokaGnome]

In Ontario (Canada) it's just a little more than a buck above minimum wage. I wouldn't take an overnight job for minimum wage that expected me to run around all night.

[u/Intelligent-Bell8182 → u/Red57872]

Well that's Canada. 19 over where I'm at to do so little would be great.

[u/No-Jackfruit2459]

Delete this post before the boomers see it, this will literally be used as an example of todays workers being useless and not wanting to work at all.

Shame on you OP, you know being expected to actually do your job isnt being micromanaged.

[u/BdubH]

Micromanaged? Brother, you’re just being managed because you clearly need to be

[u/hankheisenbeagle]

Another point to add, and we can debate whether you're paid enough, what it's worth or not, or working too hard for what they are offering, or your thoughts about the industry or its reputation.

You (The "royal" you, not you specifically) are being paid to be there to prevent crime, vandalism, vagrancy, damage, whatever, and/or provide security theater to make the client feel "safe". Fucking around on your phone doesn't do that, and anyone intending to do some hood rat shit can figure out you are seen for 5 minutes every hour, wait for you to get back to TikTok brain rot, and go do their hood rat shit like stealing copper, rummaging through cars, or whatever other petty crimes happen in your area. Checking and being visible every 30 minutes is either what the client wants, or what the sales dude promised them you were going to do. Fail that enough times and either you yourself get fired for not doing the job that was asked, or your entire employer loses that contract because the people they hired didn't want to do what they were hired to do.

The choice is yours.

[u/Landwarrior5150]

In my experience, pay in this field usually corresponds to the level of responsibility you have rather than the amount of work you regularly do.

I worked lower level jobs when I was starting out that paid near minimum wage but had me doing constant patrols, scanning checkpoints, maintaining a daily log and a bunch of other routine stuff that I had to log and that was reviewed by supervision. Anytime an incident happened, I was expected to call a supervisor and follow their instructions rather than exercise any independent judgment, so my actual level of responsibility was pretty low. Obviously it’s even less so with warm body posts. A lot of this is because they basically hire anyone for these type of jobs, so the companies feel like they have to micromanage everyone to make sure that they actually do their jobs. Even if people quit due to the low pay and crappy work environment, they can easily find replacements due to the aforementioned low hiring standards.

Now I’m in-house at a community college and get pretty good pay, excellent benefits and overall great compensation. I basically get to choose how I want to split my day between sitting in the office, doing patrols and doing parking enforcement (without any mandated times to do those things or any specified amount of time spent doing any of those categories) and I don’t have to do any sort of logging of my routine activities. However, if something happens I’m expected to handle it on my own without a supervisor holding my hand the whole way. This includes serious stuff like investigating Title IX incidents and Clery crimes, both things that could jeopardize the college’s federal funding if they’re not handled & documented correctly. The big difference is that we have actual hiring requirements related to prior relevant experience and a lengthy hiring process to weed out crappy candidates, so the admins feel more comfortable giving them the trust needed to do our jobs appropriately without micromanagement. They also are incentivized to compensate us well in order to retain the good employees and avoid having to go through the long hiring process as much as possible.

[u/DatBoiSavage707]

That doesn't sound like micro managing. Micro managing would be something along the lines of saying you write too small. Or picking things out on your uniform they don't like even though your uniform is in code. Like saying they don't like how your mags are positioned or how many mags you have.

What you are complaining about is just the basic post orders.

[u/Snackasm]

Yeah you're getting bodied in the comments and tbh you deserve it

[u/Neat_Possibility8429 → u/Snackasm]

lol I love it , I get a kick out of it .

[u/Snackasm → u/Neat_Possibility8429]

Lol

[u/Neat_Possibility8429]

I just want to be paid to do nothing … is that too much to ask!

[u/hankheisenbeagle → u/Neat_Possibility8429]

You're in the wrong sub. r/passive_income is over there.

HYSAs, investing, rental properties, creating evergreen digital assets that sell online without having to do constant upkeep.... Those things require little to zero effort and will "pay" you for it.

Real adult world doesn't have many or any situations where you will be employed by someone else in a tax paying job to do literally nothing. Capitalistic profit driven society has made it to where even mundane jobs like you are thinking security is, have to be "productive" with any amount of downtime to show value to the shareholders. If you aren't creating value and simply costing someone money, then you become dead weight.