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.
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.