New Managers

My guard company has new local managers. All are of course expert security practitioners <sarc>...all security problems just need a guard assigned. They have at least a year in the industry!

I got reassigned to another site for a while due to threats against a manager there. After a while on that job, I find that there was a question as to whether I would be able to return to the same mini-mall lobby. It seems one of the new managers had a Friend who needed a job and thought mine would be a good one for him. The property owner insisted I be returned or he would cancel the contract. I was returned. [My proposed replacement  guard managed to alienate the property owner, the staff and the clients in a very short period of time.]

So I am back in the lobby, oh joy!


My other new guard manager is a young man who thinks management means being a tough guy, hard to pull off when he is 22 years old. He is BTW, a Very Close Friend to the new manager mentioned above.

He expressed surprise at the salary I was receiving and said "This is a well paid location." I mentioned that the pay rate included 2 merit raises I had been awarded by the property owner and the next guard might return to the standard rate of pay.
He said it was grossly UNFAIR... that I received more than any other similarly situated guard. He was frankly outraged. He is a socialist UNION man. Merit--no such thing!
If you do a good job we all should get a raise; regardless of performance of the individual guard.