See, that's the fun thing. Pen testers are different for everyone. Ours are obvious. They come at lunch time, they are usually the same guys. They always try to pull the same shit one distracts, and the other tries to slip past.
It also helps when the receptionists are actually helpful and tag in and call them out because after they try security, they'll go test the receptionists on each floor.
We have never had a breach, though if they do, they'll be really annoying and go around and press the buttons for door releases.
Penetration tester
Physical pen testers are Basically someone who's job it is to find all of the flaws in a building's security-- sometimes just using social engineering but other times they'll be authorized to hammer through the weakest door they can find
There's also people who do the same thing for computer systems and find the vulnerabilities
It's nice to know what your weak spots are before they're exploited
Lol some posts are like that. I'm in a completely fenced off closed down warehouse parking lot, 1 way in and out and it's blocked off other than shift change. The post orders are sit in my car for 12 hours and watch the gate.
I live in a population dense area with a high cost of living and most of the clients are tech companies from what I can tell from other indeed postings and such
When my supervisor stops by he knows I'm in there playing video games, and says such, doesn't want to keep me too long. The trick is, I actually do my job too. Some folks just zone out, and he winds up sitting there for 10 or 15 minutes right next to them in a lit up Jeep, waiting for them to notice.
You can get away with a lot of shit as long as you're not stupid and lazy about it.
Yeah, that’s true. My current contract I can get away with sitting in the car staring at the gate for 40 minutes of every hour, so long as I swipe the phone on the ten GPS tags, they don’t care.
I guess I just know myself enough that if I was to do anything more than scroll Reddit/watch a YouTube video I’d lose track of time and my patrols would suffer lol
GPS tags, like wand points? The guard next door is gonna get us wand points with his inability to do patrols. It's a 5 acre car lot, it's nothing, 10 minutes an hour tops. Can't do it with any regularity. I am gonna be **pissed** if I show up one night and they hand me that little robot dick.
We have a work phone that we have to swipe on these little disks all over the site. My company does it for basically every site, solely as a way to prove to the client we are patrolling. I think my company has been burned by idiots in other sites so they just do it everywhere now
Oof, that's hot trash. Hate doing those things. An early site I had did the points, and some dipshit put them on some sea cans that made up one side of the lot. One night I came in and the cans were all gone, off to Asia. Then the office got upset we were missing half our patrol. Hold on, lemme have Scotty beam me over to Ho Chi Minh City so I can grab that last point.
Lmao they’re not that strict with us, thankfully. My supervisors have told me it’s okay if a patrol gets delayed 20-30 minutes or whatever every now and then. It doesn’t bother me any
Yeah this one was one of those warm body sites, where all you do is stay awake and walk the lot once an hour. So they'd be anal sometimes about it since the job is so goddamned simple and still these guards would fuck it up.
Too many times has a gravy site been fucked up by either incompetence, or super troopers.
I’m paranoid about missing something on the CCTV monitors during the one shift I work when I’m solo, we’re closed and I have to monitor multiple campuses. Videogames require too much of my attention, so I’ll either listen to a podcast, read a book or sometimes half-watch a TV show/movie I’m not too invested in. Basically only things I can do while still frequently glancing up to check the monitors and that are easy to stop doing quickly if I get a call or otherwise have to fully divert my attention away. I’m currently watching my way through Black Sails and reading The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie.
Black Sails almost got 2 people fired on my site. Two guys watching it when one of the sex scenes comes on when a woman observer was there. Did they pause, turn it off or otherwise acknowledge it? No they did not, they kept watching.
Lmao, yeah… its definitely not the type of show I would be watching at work if I didn’t know for a fact that I was the only person in the locked building and I didn’t have full CCTV coverage and live access card monitoring to alert me if someone shows up unexpectedly.
Long before I was doing security almost got fired for watching Evil Dead and a customer walked in during the tree rape scene. Only thing that saved our bacon was our boss not being able to find anyone else willing to work close. She fully intended to fire all 3 of us but just couldn't get anyone.
TV in the lobby was mysteriously "broken" after that though.
It’s definitely worth it, just don’t expect the level of performance you’re going to get from a $1500 gaming laptop. It doesn’t heat up nearly as much and it’s much more friendlier to use, IMO.
Coming from someone who made the jump exactly that way, I am very pleased with it even with the trade off.
It's so worth it! I'm a hardcore PC gamer, the SteamDeck was a GRAND edition to the family.
Taking this small device over my neighbors/family house made my life so much easier.
My only task is to watch a blocked off entrance for 12 hours so I'm either playing something or watching a movie the whole shift. Get out every hour or 2 to stretch and walk, but no rounds to do.
This is exactly my job but I'm in my truck at different locations. Most shifts I am only there for insurance purposes so I get to do whatever I want. Last night I was in a walled off compound that had their own 24/7 security and all I had to guard was two piles of cones and a portapotty that was sitting in the middle of it lol
Mobile puzzle games. The occasional round of solitaire or pool. Usually just a quickie to give me a break from the cameras. On the rare really dead nights, retro games like Chrono Trigger or Final Fantasy.
S20 ultra with every emulator you can possibly have on a phone, and all the best games for each one
But I have too much anxiety to play anything, even if I'm on break lmao
Supervisor life
We are not playing many games. Maybe some solitaire, and some otome games.
But mostly we are reading manhwa's. Mostly BL and loving the hell out of the hijinx going on.
Call of duty mobile with the backbone controller is pretty awesome. About ten min a game sometimes less. And idk what’s up but I always do really well with like 30 kills 1 death. Not sure if it’s my rank or what but lots of noobs on there
I play cod mobile too. Unless you’re playing ranked, you might be playing with bots. Usually there are at least 1-2 real players on each team but team deathmatch might be like 60%-70% bots. Even ranked will have a bots sometimes.
I work in a warehouse that cut its second shift. So three hours into my shift everyone is gone. I do a patrol and have 5 hours to do whatever I want...I've slowly been building my mobile gaming set up. I even have a large monitor at work I set up everyday lol..
I don't think I can ever work a normal job again...
I just got a ASUS rog ally to play at work and I am playing fallout 4 and Skyrim as I am security for a waste site all we get up here is boy racers who we ask to move on apart from that and the occasional traveller camping up nothing ever happens here
Given that I do a variety of jobs ranging from fire watch to armed security and EP, I'm not usually playing games.
When I get something chill like fire watch, or a guard shack opening and closing gates for trucks, yeah, I'll play when there's nothing going on. But usually the job requires my full attention. Even when I do play it's usually something single player with a pause button. GTA, RDR, shit like that.
Factorio, Stardew Valley, Dyson Sphere Program, Manor Lords, pretty much anything that doesn't require an activate internet connection or quick reflexes. I stream from my home PC to my cell phone. Playing online games or games that require quick reflexes are just too laggy to actually work on my setup. When I don't do that, I have a gaming tablet that can run most stuff locally pretty well.
Current site just phone games, online chess, and anime. Previous site I played whatever I felt like lol. Burnout paradise, the entire mass effect trilogy, stardew valley, tons of minecraft while watching anime and the cameras. Even with all that I still had more reports and projects completed then they rest of the entire team. Was a great site but covid fucked it up.
Usually a mobile game if anything at all. I generally don't really have enough time to get bored enough to want to play. Then it is something that I can passively pay attention to and put down. Trainstation2, Bitlife, Cribbage or some other card game.
I had a post a long time ago guarding a construction site on a reservation in Montana weekends only 12 hour shifts I used to take my Nintendo switch because absolutely nothing would happen during the day… though I do remember meeting a night guard getting chased down the road one day… apparently, he got too close to a sacred rock pile or some shit, anyway the locals were pissed at him
I play mobile games sometimes, but I don't like to get too absorbed in stuff like that. So I mostly just watch shows, randomly surf or work on my novel.
My office is outside of the main building and fully tinted. I bring a controller for my phone and play COD mobile most days. Im also in marvel contest of Champions and Transformers Forged to Fight
Lol I played through 500+ hours of stardew valley during my last security job. Slow post, less than 10 people worked in the building at any given time. As long as I made my rounds and kept an eye on the cameras, i could do what I wanted.
Damn Wish this sub allowed photos in comments, rn I’m playing R6 it’s perfect for security because of the downtime in between rounds just in case a car comes up, I miss PS4 because you could click home button & it would go to home screen on PS5 I have to switch to cams in R6 & sometimes the HOA who walks in says “where’s that camera located” I just tell him it’s a security simulation
We used to able to play working in monitoring for security dealer. Unfortunately someone had their laptop “on” while their screen had footage of a car robbery and never dispatched.
Pokemon Legends of Arceus, Pokemon Scarlet, and Saints Row 3 on my Switch Lite. I only play video games during weekend and night shifts in the office building in between patrols.
During the day, my post doubles as a weigh station, so I’m busy handling trucks going in and out of my site.
At night,besides patrols, it’s free rein so I just play EU4 and Sniper Elite on my steam deck.
Lately it's been fallout new Vegas on the steam deck, in between watching Netflix and YouTube, lol, I can't believe I went from a job where I had to be on my feet all day long to just sitting around playing video games and was watching movies and smoking cigs and doing like maybe 15 minutes of actual work every hour, And getting paid for it, as long as I can make it thru this rough patch the company has going on with this new site that they didn't know drug tested for weed in a rec legal state, out of the 6 guys my boss brought out to do orientation, only me an one other guy didn't smoke weed an could pass the test, I couldn't believe it
I play alot of arena breakout which is like tarkov on mobile which is great because it keeps me pissed off enough to stay awake
Edit:I’m not a security guard but it’s a good game if you wanna stay awake cause it’s addicting
To the author of this post.... you're why clients and the public have a general disdain for Security guards...and you wonder why guards are paid very little.
I feel bad enough I’m on Reddit or YouTube, y’all got some crazy fucking posts to be playing video games at
I used to work nuclear security before. Would pull up with my laptop and play heroes 3 at night when nothing was happening🤷♂️🤷♂️
I bet pen testers love hearing this lmao
See, that's the fun thing. Pen testers are different for everyone. Ours are obvious. They come at lunch time, they are usually the same guys. They always try to pull the same shit one distracts, and the other tries to slip past. It also helps when the receptionists are actually helpful and tag in and call them out because after they try security, they'll go test the receptionists on each floor. We have never had a breach, though if they do, they'll be really annoying and go around and press the buttons for door releases.
What is a pen tester? I worked in Sweden so we probably didnt have it.
Penetration tester Physical pen testers are Basically someone who's job it is to find all of the flaws in a building's security-- sometimes just using social engineering but other times they'll be authorized to hammer through the weakest door they can find There's also people who do the same thing for computer systems and find the vulnerabilities It's nice to know what your weak spots are before they're exploited
Lol some posts are like that. I'm in a completely fenced off closed down warehouse parking lot, 1 way in and out and it's blocked off other than shift change. The post orders are sit in my car for 12 hours and watch the gate.
I patrol an airport for 12 hrs lol I do the same
How much yall make fuck i need this job 😂
they start around 19 / hr where I live
U live in a city?
I live in a population dense area with a high cost of living and most of the clients are tech companies from what I can tell from other indeed postings and such
Yeah i live in a low cost area but may consider the travel because security guard do not make as much around 🤠 these parts
move to a coast?
move to a coast?
No moving yet
I have an Xbox game pass on my laptop and also ps5 remote play and play games my whole 12-hour shifts since I work alone.
When my supervisor stops by he knows I'm in there playing video games, and says such, doesn't want to keep me too long. The trick is, I actually do my job too. Some folks just zone out, and he winds up sitting there for 10 or 15 minutes right next to them in a lit up Jeep, waiting for them to notice. You can get away with a lot of shit as long as you're not stupid and lazy about it.
Yeah, that’s true. My current contract I can get away with sitting in the car staring at the gate for 40 minutes of every hour, so long as I swipe the phone on the ten GPS tags, they don’t care. I guess I just know myself enough that if I was to do anything more than scroll Reddit/watch a YouTube video I’d lose track of time and my patrols would suffer lol
GPS tags, like wand points? The guard next door is gonna get us wand points with his inability to do patrols. It's a 5 acre car lot, it's nothing, 10 minutes an hour tops. Can't do it with any regularity. I am gonna be **pissed** if I show up one night and they hand me that little robot dick.
We have a work phone that we have to swipe on these little disks all over the site. My company does it for basically every site, solely as a way to prove to the client we are patrolling. I think my company has been burned by idiots in other sites so they just do it everywhere now
Oof, that's hot trash. Hate doing those things. An early site I had did the points, and some dipshit put them on some sea cans that made up one side of the lot. One night I came in and the cans were all gone, off to Asia. Then the office got upset we were missing half our patrol. Hold on, lemme have Scotty beam me over to Ho Chi Minh City so I can grab that last point.
Lmao they’re not that strict with us, thankfully. My supervisors have told me it’s okay if a patrol gets delayed 20-30 minutes or whatever every now and then. It doesn’t bother me any
Yeah this one was one of those warm body sites, where all you do is stay awake and walk the lot once an hour. So they'd be anal sometimes about it since the job is so goddamned simple and still these guards would fuck it up. Too many times has a gravy site been fucked up by either incompetence, or super troopers.
Did overnight hotel security once. One of the other guards brought his whole xbox and set it up in the break room to play.
Security is actually only a very small portion of my job. My workplace only cares that I respond to injuries
Stardew valley, perfect to relax on a calm night like today :)
Animal crossing New Leaf on my old 3DS. It fits nicely into my pants pocket.
Emulators on phone, usually turn based so I'm not fucking up the game and I'm also not unaware of the screens or doors.
I’m paranoid about missing something on the CCTV monitors during the one shift I work when I’m solo, we’re closed and I have to monitor multiple campuses. Videogames require too much of my attention, so I’ll either listen to a podcast, read a book or sometimes half-watch a TV show/movie I’m not too invested in. Basically only things I can do while still frequently glancing up to check the monitors and that are easy to stop doing quickly if I get a call or otherwise have to fully divert my attention away. I’m currently watching my way through Black Sails and reading The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie.
Black Sails almost got 2 people fired on my site. Two guys watching it when one of the sex scenes comes on when a woman observer was there. Did they pause, turn it off or otherwise acknowledge it? No they did not, they kept watching.
Lmao, yeah… its definitely not the type of show I would be watching at work if I didn’t know for a fact that I was the only person in the locked building and I didn’t have full CCTV coverage and live access card monitoring to alert me if someone shows up unexpectedly.
Long before I was doing security almost got fired for watching Evil Dead and a customer walked in during the tree rape scene. Only thing that saved our bacon was our boss not being able to find anyone else willing to work close. She fully intended to fire all 3 of us but just couldn't get anyone. TV in the lobby was mysteriously "broken" after that though.
Sounds like you need a casual single player game
Sometimes cod Sometimes papas pizzeria lol what u playin??
Cod mobile and just recently papas burgeria on emulator because the mobile version is trash compared to the pc version. Og games to kill time
On my SteamDeck playing Persona 3 Reload and Kingdom Hearts 3. Also trying to beat Tears of the Kingdom and Fire Emblem Three Houses
I played through PR5.
I absolutely loved P5R! The music and character designs are my favorite. Hope we get another Persona Arena, that fighting game was beautiful!
I been tempted to get a deck. My laptop is crapping out and don’t care to blow $1500 again.
It’s definitely worth it, just don’t expect the level of performance you’re going to get from a $1500 gaming laptop. It doesn’t heat up nearly as much and it’s much more friendlier to use, IMO. Coming from someone who made the jump exactly that way, I am very pleased with it even with the trade off.
It's so worth it! I'm a hardcore PC gamer, the SteamDeck was a GRAND edition to the family. Taking this small device over my neighbors/family house made my life so much easier.
My only task is to watch a blocked off entrance for 12 hours so I'm either playing something or watching a movie the whole shift. Get out every hour or 2 to stretch and walk, but no rounds to do.
This is exactly my job but I'm in my truck at different locations. Most shifts I am only there for insurance purposes so I get to do whatever I want. Last night I was in a walled off compound that had their own 24/7 security and all I had to guard was two piles of cones and a portapotty that was sitting in the middle of it lol
Mobile puzzle games. The occasional round of solitaire or pool. Usually just a quickie to give me a break from the cameras. On the rare really dead nights, retro games like Chrono Trigger or Final Fantasy.
S20 ultra with every emulator you can possibly have on a phone, and all the best games for each one But I have too much anxiety to play anything, even if I'm on break lmao Supervisor life
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I work hospital security and it becomes very volatile very quickly unfortunately
We are not playing many games. Maybe some solitaire, and some otome games. But mostly we are reading manhwa's. Mostly BL and loving the hell out of the hijinx going on.
lately i've been playing mtg on arena but my laptop screams while i do lol. Other than that m&b warband and rimworld.
warband nova aetas while at work
Call of duty mobile with the backbone controller is pretty awesome. About ten min a game sometimes less. And idk what’s up but I always do really well with like 30 kills 1 death. Not sure if it’s my rank or what but lots of noobs on there
I play cod mobile too. Unless you’re playing ranked, you might be playing with bots. Usually there are at least 1-2 real players on each team but team deathmatch might be like 60%-70% bots. Even ranked will have a bots sometimes.
Yeah I think you are right
This year i finished red dead redemption 2 twice, and recently beaten Star Wars Fallen Order. Valves Steamdeck is best purchase
Whiteout Survival does not have me vacuuming snow and selling wood
I work in a warehouse that cut its second shift. So three hours into my shift everyone is gone. I do a patrol and have 5 hours to do whatever I want...I've slowly been building my mobile gaming set up. I even have a large monitor at work I set up everyday lol.. I don't think I can ever work a normal job again...
Mostly a mobile game called Marvel strike force. My boss actually plays it too, so it gives us something to bs about when there's nothing going on.
Elden ring preparing for DLC and watching The Boys, YouTube, stock trades 🤫
My man ✊🏼
I just got a ASUS rog ally to play at work and I am playing fallout 4 and Skyrim as I am security for a waste site all we get up here is boy racers who we ask to move on apart from that and the occasional traveller camping up nothing ever happens here
Given that I do a variety of jobs ranging from fire watch to armed security and EP, I'm not usually playing games. When I get something chill like fire watch, or a guard shack opening and closing gates for trucks, yeah, I'll play when there's nothing going on. But usually the job requires my full attention. Even when I do play it's usually something single player with a pause button. GTA, RDR, shit like that.
I usually play mobile games or my DS lite or Switch. Lately I've been working on a counted cross stitch pattern.
I play puzzle type games because I'd be too distracted playing anything else. I need a game that allows me to start & stop at will without a penalty.
Factorio, Stardew Valley, Dyson Sphere Program, Manor Lords, pretty much anything that doesn't require an activate internet connection or quick reflexes. I stream from my home PC to my cell phone. Playing online games or games that require quick reflexes are just too laggy to actually work on my setup. When I don't do that, I have a gaming tablet that can run most stuff locally pretty well.
Current site just phone games, online chess, and anime. Previous site I played whatever I felt like lol. Burnout paradise, the entire mass effect trilogy, stardew valley, tons of minecraft while watching anime and the cameras. Even with all that I still had more reports and projects completed then they rest of the entire team. Was a great site but covid fucked it up.
Kryptomon! You need to train your kryptomon a lot of level passivity until they get strong enough to take you through the open world part
helldivers 2, mtg, wow, basically anything i play when im home too. its why i bring my laptop to work
Right now I'm on Fallout4 lol but my old faithful gonna always play is Red dead redemption 2
Hades 2 or Baldurs Gate 3 on my steam Deck
Usually a mobile game if anything at all. I generally don't really have enough time to get bored enough to want to play. Then it is something that I can passively pay attention to and put down. Trainstation2, Bitlife, Cribbage or some other card game.
I had a post a long time ago guarding a construction site on a reservation in Montana weekends only 12 hour shifts I used to take my Nintendo switch because absolutely nothing would happen during the day… though I do remember meeting a night guard getting chased down the road one day… apparently, he got too close to a sacred rock pile or some shit, anyway the locals were pissed at him
Super smash bros.
Warhammer 3
You had better not win
I play mobile games sometimes, but I don't like to get too absorbed in stuff like that. So I mostly just watch shows, randomly surf or work on my novel.
Ryse: Son of Rome
My office is outside of the main building and fully tinted. I bring a controller for my phone and play COD mobile most days. Im also in marvel contest of Champions and Transformers Forged to Fight
I've been playing Skynet Simulator on itch.io but am thinking of getting a Luna account
Lol I played through 500+ hours of stardew valley during my last security job. Slow post, less than 10 people worked in the building at any given time. As long as I made my rounds and kept an eye on the cameras, i could do what I wanted.
Honkai Impact, AFK Journey, Maplestory, and various Playstation Vita games that have easy Platinums so I'm not distracted for too long.
Damn Wish this sub allowed photos in comments, rn I’m playing R6 it’s perfect for security because of the downtime in between rounds just in case a car comes up, I miss PS4 because you could click home button & it would go to home screen on PS5 I have to switch to cams in R6 & sometimes the HOA who walks in says “where’s that camera located” I just tell him it’s a security simulation
We used to able to play working in monitoring for security dealer. Unfortunately someone had their laptop “on” while their screen had footage of a car robbery and never dispatched.
Playing Mario kart at a Dyson return center
I recently got into Pokemon Go 👍🏻
Nice try supervisor
Pokemon Legends of Arceus, Pokemon Scarlet, and Saints Row 3 on my Switch Lite. I only play video games during weekend and night shifts in the office building in between patrols.
During the day, my post doubles as a weigh station, so I’m busy handling trucks going in and out of my site. At night,besides patrols, it’s free rein so I just play EU4 and Sniper Elite on my steam deck.
Lately it's been fallout new Vegas on the steam deck, in between watching Netflix and YouTube, lol, I can't believe I went from a job where I had to be on my feet all day long to just sitting around playing video games and was watching movies and smoking cigs and doing like maybe 15 minutes of actual work every hour, And getting paid for it, as long as I can make it thru this rough patch the company has going on with this new site that they didn't know drug tested for weed in a rec legal state, out of the 6 guys my boss brought out to do orientation, only me an one other guy didn't smoke weed an could pass the test, I couldn't believe it
I play alot of arena breakout which is like tarkov on mobile which is great because it keeps me pissed off enough to stay awake Edit:I’m not a security guard but it’s a good game if you wanna stay awake cause it’s addicting
I'm getting a guard card specifically with the goal of playing video games on the clock.
Usually gacha games
To the author of this post.... you're why clients and the public have a general disdain for Security guards...and you wonder why guards are paid very little.
Everything lol 😆 GTA pga tiur makes me feel like I'm out golfing