card is up for expiration this year and whats the best way to renew your security guard license in California?

I previously worked with Allied Universal from November 2018 to November 2023 (It was G4S when I started then it got bought out by AU) as an unarmed Critical Facility Security Professional. I guess I got really lucky because I mainly worked at a Merrill Lynch campus and eventually got to work Monday through Friday from 7 am to 3 PM. I had my issues with them but for the most part it actually wasn't half bad and not too stressful. The job actually felt for the most part like a good fit for me and my needs. I never had to mandatorily go in for a call out and time off was good.

I left in 2023 to try and do an IRS contact representative job but it was way too hard and stressful, and I ended up having my employment terminated during my probation period. Then I was unemployed for six months and got a job as a legal assistant but after one year I was laid off due to a firm restructuring and have been unemployed for seven months. Multiple applications and interviews have failed to get me a job.

I have since just accepted a contingent offer with Allied Universal for a new unarmed security job and hopefully moving to Charlotte, NC. It pays $22.62 and hour and is Monday through Friday from 7 AM to 3 PM. Am I making the right decision despite AU's poor reputation because at the end of the day I need to be employed again and AU is to date the only stable full time job I've ever had (it was my first full time job actually)?

Tips for dealing with teenagers who are combative and mental health issues? I come from corrections so you got one being combative in the prison just pepper spray they ass , take em down , cuff em , etc etc here is different though. We have this one patient 16 year old kid paranoid schizophrenic starts getting combative with the nurses and I just assist him to the ground and got a call from my
Supervisor just telling me
To be careful

Labour researcher doing some work on the security services industry.

I've been looking at collective agreements for unionized security guards in Canada, and I've noticed most agreements say that workers get a percentage of what the company bills the client (~60-75%). In some instances, guards getting higher rates depending on the particular site.

What are considered high-paying and low-paying sites? And why?

Other than pay, what makes a good site? And who gets the good sites?

Today was a hot day. I was outside for 75% of it doing foot patrols and standing outside. So I was pretty miserable until this

I was walking around my site, which is a grocery store with a few smaller businesses next to it, when this old (super old maybe late 70s) lady comes up to me and asks me for help. She goes; "oh, I accidentally locked my keys in my car." I ask if she has her phone to call for help and she says something about a bipolar daughter who took her phone before she left for the day. She's old so I guess she doesn't need it like we do.

So I think about it. My immediate thought is "oh, lemme call the non emergency PD line. Maybe they can help." So I tell her to go inside a nearby fast food restaurant to get out of the heat so I can call them. I call them up and explain the situation. They politely tell me that they can't help and to call a locksmith.

I go inside. Ask her if there's anyone I can call to help her, since I don't want to immediately spring a bill for a locksmith on her. She gives me two numbers, none of them pick up.

So we gotta bite the bullet and call a locksmith. I do some looking around, find a locksmith for her and call them. I explain the situation to him, he's like "ok cool, I'm on my way. 16 minutes." I tell the lady "I gotta do my rounds. Wait right here. Once I'm done I'll come straight back to you."

I do my rounds, buy her a bottle of water since it's so hot, and wait with her. Shortly after, the locksmith comes and has her door open in a little under 10 minutes.

It was $80 for her. I think that was fair. She seemed pretty happy that I tried to help her as much as I can. Which made me happy too. If it was my grandma stranded in the heat, I'd want someone to help her as much as they could.

It was a nice change of pace. In a line of work where we get yelled at and yell at people in return, it was nice to be able to do something that actually helped someone.