- Joined
- Dec 28, 2014
I did this shit for a couple years. It involved doing nearly nothing except walking (which was good for me anyway). Had to call the cops a couple times, also once some transformer blew up and filled the place with acrid, toxic smoke. Pretty good job if you're attending college too. Read a lot of books including course material, the rest of the time played ancient vidya.Private unarmed security never is. You have next to no authority (about all you can actually do is firmly ask people to stop what they're doing and/or leave, and when they laugh in your face all that's left is calling the police to actually enforce the law.
It sucks (you're paid to observe and report, and little else; sometimes, especially when guarding industrial property overnight, you're directly told not to even confront intruders), and it's boring, and the pay's not too hot. Then again, the types of people doing unarmed security tend to be people you would never want to hand a firearm.
Most of the dudes (and a couple chicks) doing this were pretty chill. However, there were definitely some dumb motherfuckers who thought they were actual cops and would try to do cop shit and get fired because that is what gets your company sued.





