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!”
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.
“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.
‘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.” ‘
Lets define ‘ready room’.
The facility has multiple security shifts working. Half of the assigned security force are manning posts, the other half are in a ‘ready room’. This is a holding area, more or less. It keeps a group of security officers ‘ready’ to respond en masse to a reported security breech, anywhere within the facility.
I’d be upset if they found the security officers asleep at the GATE, or at an ACCESS CONTROL POINT, or in the console room (armoured room where all video and alarm feeds terminate).
This is no big deal, folks. A ‘ready room’ may have a television, a micro wave, and what we called a ‘gee dunk’ in the Navy (candybars, potato chip vending machine).
As another poster noted above, company’s won’t hire internal security, seeing it as a waste of profit. So they ‘outsource’ which gets Wackenhut, or Allied Barton, or Securitas involved - contract security in other words.
The contracts call for low pay, even at a nuclear facility.
You get what you pay for, in short. But this is a simple ‘media hit job’ by a disgruntled former employee, thats all.