Supervisors are never your friends

A fellow guard friend just called, really pleased with himself.


It seems a guard had left his post early by 35 minutes and as a result my friend was forced to cover the dangerous post alone.

The presumptuousness of this really angered my friend!

So he called his supervisor!
His supervisor got really angry too and immediately called the other guard to berate him for leaving his post. The supervisor of course told this guard that my friend had just called him and tattled on him.


The supervisor gave No thought to the fact that my friend is now on the other guard's enemy list and that guard WILL get revenge.

The guard then called my friend and asked why he ratted him out. My friend denies every doing so. [Like that will work.] This guard then calls my friend a "punk ass bitch, who will get what he deserves."

This again angers my friend, who then immediately calls the supervisor again to complain!

The supervisor tells my friend to "write it up" and put it in his open in-box in the guards' common break room and he would pick it up tomorrow. [No concern that the other guards will then read it and believe my friend is the supervisor's "bitch". That they will then ostracize and  work hard to get my friend fired.]

[This has happened to my friend this same way at 5 companies! He is going to run out of companies to work for in this area!]

Now my friend is feeling pleased that he was able to get this guard in trouble with the supervisor.
(Mommy, Billy looked mean at me!?)

He then tells me he thinks that it might not work well because the other guard is 1 )a personal friend of the company owner and 2) of his supervisor's supervisor and 3) that the supervisor he called is a new employee!  
[Gee, You think??]

Pick your battles! 35 minutes and being called a name by a fellow guard is not worth the repercussions!
Game it out before you open your mouth!

• The supervisors will not back you up. 
• If they appear to be backing you up, see above.
• They will throw you under the bus without thought or hesitation.
• They have their own plans that do not include any good for you. (See film Paths of Glory with Kirk Douglas: highly recommended)
• They will soon see you as trouble, not to be trusted and too thin skinned. You then again lose your job and complain about how unfair it is...Dude, LIFE IS NOT FAIR and NO ONE CARES ABOUT YOU.
• Supervisors want NO problems.

My friend is one of the best guards around, you couldn't ask for a better patrol partner, alert, tactically competent and reliable, cares about innocents, is not afraid of any one but flies off the handle when he encounters 'regular guards' and their apathy and incompetence....and is naive about management....and can't STFU.

Please just count to 100, slowly. (Counting to 10 won't do it.) Stay frosty, chill out, be cool man.

He probably won't read this either. He knows he is a great guard but hasn't yet come to truly understand the appalling pettiness of most people in the rent-a-guard industry.

Your boss can not be trusted, is not a tool for vengeance and will throw you to the wolves to lighten his load even slightly. We are nothing to them.

Being superbly competent is NOT enough!

In this industry you can be righteously angry OR be employed! Please chill, my friend!