Macho Customers

We are just working a guard job. You, the employees and public are our customers. Most of us are nice if you go about your business without gratuitous abuse of the guard staff or the business. We however sometimes run into regular citizens with macho ego problems. As I have mentioned in past entries to this blog, we don't care, just move along and have a nice day.

Some have such fragile macho egos that they feel they must prove they are not afraid of you. This is apparently how they deal with uniforms. A guard looks like an easy target; poor, stupid and impotent.  But are they? Albeit rarely, thank goodness, these types, men and women both, get in my face for unintentionally scaring them by being too big or looking too serious [the smiling guard sometimes forgets to smile.] They do not know.  This poor soul punches or tries to punch me. The attacker usually has no idea what happened, but somehow they ended up on the floor. Some are slow in their "combat perception", they must get off the floor 2-3 times before they realize that they have a problem, especially if it appears the guard has not raised a sweat or their voice, did not really hit them, is not angry and is looking calmly at them, saying...please don't do that again... did you slip?...are you alright? They then attack another way. They complain to the bosses that they were attacked without reason by the psycho guard and demand they get fired. Some bosses do then fire the guard, because it is easier and all guards are fungible, aren't they? Remember the rules: the guard is always wrong and a liar.