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Security Officer Reviews
What is it like working as a Security Officer?
February 2016
Life as a security officer.
Security Officer:
Pros: My job as a security officer is comfortable, easy and there is a nice atmopshere here. I'm tasked with greeting visitors and I get to met a lot of nice people. Yet also I'm left to relax and enjoy myself when things get slow. It's not hard work just something you have to be there everyday for.
Cons: The job itself is great. Some of the supervisors in particular one, is not. There was no actual training just how to properly fill out forms so most of it I had to learn on the job.
One supervisor expected me to know a lot of information about the site I was working at yet I was never provided the information or informed I needed to know this. This same supervisor ridculed me, mocked me, and just in general made fun of me. He assumed it was ok given he does the same with everyone else around with all their goofing around.
I was also expected to be able to memorize a car's make, model and plates as they come by incase something goes wrong.
There was many little incidents like those mentioned above where I just wasn't trained and expected to know how to do this. Mind you this is my first security job, ever. I have no military training, police training, self defense training, firearm training, nothing! Absolutely nothing.
February 2016
I was a security expert.
Security Officer:
Read your instructions, .Know your duties and carry then out without fear or favour.
January 2016
Security Officer:
Pros: Keeping people save.
Cons: A lot of responsibility.
January 2016
Its a big company.
Security Officer:
Pros: They transport us with their own taxis.
Cons: The money they paying us for a month is not good at all.
January 2016
Security Officer:
Pros: Pay is above average at my site.
Cons: Unprofessional staff members.
Branch office is dated.
January 2016
Customer Service.
Security Officer:
Be courteous & always be the solution. Not part of the problem.
January 2016
It is very hard.you work long shifts, day and night.
Security Officer:
Pros: You get to connect with people who own big companies.
Cons: Always at work, cant even study.
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