Posted on 01/04/2008 7:42:02 AM PST by DFG
Kerry Beal was taken aback when he discovered last March that many of his fellow security guards at the Peach Bottom nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania were taking regular naps in what they called "the ready room."
When he spoke to supervisors at his company, Wackenhut Corp., they told Beal to be a team player. When he alerted the regional office of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, regulators let the matter drop after the plant's owner, Exelon, said it found no evidence of guards asleep on the job.
So Beal videotaped the sleeping guards. The tape, eventually given to WCBS, a CBS television affiliate in New York City, showed the armed workers snoozing against walls, slumped on tabletops or with eyes closed and heads bobbing.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Maybe these guys need to hire Blackwater...
The amusing thing about this in-general-not-very-amusing article is that the sleeping on the job by SEIU workers employed by Wackenhut is being blamed on Wackenhut - by the SEIU!
Back when I worked for GPU 10 years ago, a boat lost power in the Susquehanna River and the guy grounded it on the island. The boat’s owner was surprised to find a bunch of shotguns pointed at his face in a matter of seconds.
Those dudes did not fool around. That was pre-Exelon days, though.
Nice .... give them the same punishment Marines get when they sleep on guard duty.
“I’m about to lose my job just because I’m dangerously unqualified!”
was that a "strong" talking to and maybe a time out with your nose in the corner?
When I worked for Motorola,we employed “Whack-a-nut” security.It was very common to have to wake them up in the morning when we came in.They’d take bubble-wrap and make beds on the stock shelves.Of course,most were retiree’s,older than 65 and this was supplement income for them.
“I’m not a supervising technician, I’m a technical supervisor!”
“In 2006, the NRC dispatched inspection teams to the Turkey Point nuclear plant in Florida to follow up on complaints of security problems. The Union of Concerned Scientists said that unhappy Wackenhut security guards at the plant had sabotaged their own equipment.”
That “sabotage” here at Turkey Point was nothing more than bored guards peeling the window tinting in the corners of their bullet-resistant enclosures and using marking pens to color on telephone keypads. At least they stayed awake defacing company property.
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"Lisa, if you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way." |
Spider-pig. Spider-pig. Does whatever a Spider-pig does.
Can he swing, from a web? No he can’t, he’s a pig.
Look out, here come’s the spider pig.....
LOL
Same for sky-cops (USAF) back in the hollow-force days.
Take a sky-cop and weld him into a vault with two bowling balls for a 12 hr shift.
After the door is cut open, one bowling ball will be gone, the other broken in half. When questioned, the guard will claim to have seen nothing.
Nowadays they use contractors for ‘routine’ security.
Bored is bored.
This is how this game works...you want security...you want cheap security or expensive security? Once you understand that question...the situation becomes very complicated.
Most CEO’s simply won’t accept a situation where you have any security working for your company....making more than $25k per year. By the time you take out taxes and social security...the guy is taking home barely $1600 a month...then you consider health insurance...and it goes down to $1100. So who do you hire? Old dudes who want the job for supplemental incomes or young punks who have been fired from the last three jobs. Thats your choice.
Having worked evening shifts for the Air Force in my career...I can tell you...I simply am not of night-duty character. There is no way I can stay completely up from 10PM until 6AM completely. I can remember numerous occasions when I got a one-hour lunch break at 1AM, and I simply went to my car and slept for an hour. Ninety percent of the public are probably of the same type of sleeper.
Then the CEOs will cut down to the last billet possible...which means that you need to put in an entire shift....by yourself....with no back-up. If you did a survey....I’d bet the vast majority of night-guards in America....sleep at least two hours during every shift.
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