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Posted by Robert King on Sat May 31 13:29:39 2008, in response to Re: Union Station Photographers Rights Issue Gets Press Attention, posted by SelkirkTMO on Fri May 30 21:39:12 2008. I know - I had to walk that line many, many times to put myself through school (I almost started a blog titled "What do I have to do to pay my tuition fees?" about it). Believe me, I'd hate to be that security guard on Monday morning.To go from the threat of being fired for not shaking down everybody in site with a camera on Friday to the threat of being fired for having done that and gotten the place negative TV coverage is a nasty row to hoe. All for some $8 to $10 an hour pittance where you never know if you'll have a job the next day over causing the property managers the slightest amount of discomfort over anything - including negative public reaction to the enforcement of policies they created and demanded that you enforce. Let's face it, security isn't about security. It's about having inexpensive gophers you can give menial tasks, reduces your insurance costs, and act as your bad guy so you don't have to take any flack about your own unpopular decisions and - most conveniently of all - it gets you off the hook. If something goes wrong, you don't accept responsibility for it, you blame security and throw the poor bastard out of work and show everybody that you've dealt with the situation by disciplining someone. Then you go hire yourself another gopher and run the guy into the ground until he gets caught between both sides of a policy dispute and it's convenient to have him taken out back and shot and the cycle repeats itself again. -Robert King |
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