tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5803385070922797451.post2291318485476872933..comments2024-03-27T12:56:38.992-07:00Comments on The Skeptical Bureaucrat: The GAO Bombs OutTSBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02790614121966204073noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5803385070922797451.post-48696369358325580732009-07-09T04:51:27.163-07:002009-07-09T04:51:27.163-07:00My boyfriend actually works for a private security...My boyfriend actually works for a private security company with a federal contract. He works in several buildings in NW which contain various govt. agencies.<br /><br />Let me tell you, these people are wicked unprofessional and somewhat inept. I'll give you some examples:<br /><br />1. They're not allowed to have cell phones on them while they're guarding a building, and yet nearly every day I get a phone call from one of his supervisors on our temporarily-shared cell phone, trying to reach him.<br /><br />2. Those phone calls are typically trying to find out where he is. They seem to have no central database schedule of any sort to find out where a given employee is assigned at a given time.<br /><br />3. Along those lines, let me give you an anecdote that occurred last week: said boyfriend was called at 9pm to be told where he would be working the next day (it is not unusual for them to give him less than 12 hours of warning before he will be working), at Address A. He went to work at Address A from 8am-4pm. The next day he got a call from his supervisor asking why he didn't show up to work the day before. Confused, he said he did work, as assigned at Address A, from 8-4. Apparently he was supposed to instead be working at Address B, from 2-10pm. He recieved no phone call telling him this, and on the day that he supposedly didn't show up at work, he recieved no phone calls asking "why aren't you here at work at Address B?". Yeah.<br /><br />4. His site bosses show up hours late more often than they show up on time.<br /><br />It seems to me that honestly, if the govt. wants to have better security, they need to raise the bar a little bit. The training at the company my boyfriend works for consists of one day of in-classroom training. That's it. Their education requirement is a GED. Now, my boyfriend has previous law enforcement experience and a master's in criminology (he only has the job at the moment because of the economy), but he says he has only run into one other employee thus far (at the guard level, at least) that has even an undergrad degree. If the govt. wants their buildings protected better, might want to think about raising the standards of training, at the very least.Kelseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02057778340760717886noreply@blogger.com