Security Officer of the Year 2013
Security Officer of the Year for 2013, Abdul Basher, on the front lines of the war against terror in New York City’s One World Trade Center at about 2:45 AM last Saturday as captured on a Port Authority worker’s camera. One World Trade Center – the same place a high schooler sneaked past a sleeping guard to reach the roof a few days ago.
“The security division is so poorly managed .?.?. Every security guard that works for them is mentally stressed,” he said.
The Bangladeshi immigrant with some missing teeth also claimed he hadn’t been dozing.
“To my knowledge, actually I was not sleeping. I was mistaken to be sleeping. I was exercising my eyes,” he insisted.
Yeah, his eyes look a little fat. Lucky for him it’s 2014 now and he doesn’t have to be worried about this year’s award. the whole story at the New York Post.
Category: Shitbags
That’s the kind of security you get for minimum wage.
I’ll bet there’s a union involved and he doesn’t make minimum wage.
Hmm, toothless Bangladeshi security guard not doing a great job covering his security detail….
Never would have imagined that someone who has no skin in the game wouldn’t give a shit to the point of napping….who hires these companies and who the hell oversees them once they are on task? At the moment it looks like no one.
His name’s Abdul, I’m guessing he does have skin in the game … For the other side.
Former 11B…Roger that!
Also, remember it’s NYC …
“To my knowledge, actually I was not sleeping. I was mistaken to be sleeping. I was exercising my eyes,” he insisted.
Should have been a lawyer!
Perhaps English isn’t his first language, MCPO. I think he actually meant “I was checking my eyelids for pinholes” vice “I was exercising my eyes”.
“I was exercising my eyes,” he insisted.”
Well isn’t that special. Think he’ll get canned? I doubt it. His seniority probably keeps him on night shift and he’s probably a member of a strong union. So no, I think he’ll get a talking to about, “hey, Abdul, if you’re going to cop some Zs on the job, find a janitor’s closet where there’s no cameras, okay?” “Now get back to work and keep a sharp eye out!”
Yeah, I’ve heard that before … and it was probably ME saying it:
Me: “Honest Ranger Instructor, I wasn’t sleeping!”
RI: “Then why, Ranger, am I holding your patrol cap in my hands?”
……
Me: “Honest Ranger Instructor, I wasn’t sleeping!”
RI: “Then why has YOUR patrol moved out of the ORP and you are still here, Ranger?”
…..
Me: “Honest Ranger Instructor, I wasn’t sleeping!”
RI: “Ranger, I’ve been on my belly for five minutes staring into your eyelids.”
….
(-__-) zzzzzzzzz
–ghp
I heard that.
LOL!! 😛
I *love* those Ranger stories.
Back in the day on active duty when we were fighting the Cold War in Colorado Springs, we used to have to do these base exercises in MOPP 4 in the old M-17 masks. I got smart and took black paper from a document protector in the office and cut out pieces to fit *inside the mask* against the eye pieces. Then shortly my buddies joined in.
We all eventually got busted when someone started *SNORING*….LOUDLY.
😀
I never ever thought about going “black out” while in MOPP 4.
Ranger (School) story:
In Phase I it was common, while taking notes in class, to momentarily fall asleep while actively engaged in the act of writing.
Also saw a few almost fall down while standing in formation; fortunately, they woke up after the “shudder”.
–ghp
It was funny to see the pencil line trailing at a 45º angle down the full length of your paper.
[I must have fallen asleep and inserted a thought incorrectly]
In Phase I it was common, while taking notes in class, to momentarily fall asleep while actively engaged in the act of writing. It was funny to see the pencil line trailing at a 45º angle down the full length of your paper.
–ghp
Droning man, droning!
Oh, man! I haven’t heard that in YEARS!
Thanks for the wake-up call.
“Morale officer! Get up here and tell a joke! Wake up these logs.”
“If you start to fall asleep, stand up and to to the back of the classroom.”
Now, I only need to clean up this “pool of wisdom” that collected upon my keyboard.
–ghp
I HATED THE SKITS.
“It was funny to see the pencil line trailing at a 45º angle down the full length of your paper.”
I still have my notes from my RADAR school. On many pages you can see my notes getting less coherent and starting that angle down and to the right. *spent ALOT of time on my feet during that school.
I’ve always been bad in classroom environments, during DC training in bootcamp I fell asleep at my desk. The instructor was one big ass HT1, it seems like I was his “example” AS TO why falling asleep in his class was a bad idea.
He picked me and the desk up off the ground, (the guys said it was about three feet) and let go. I woke up on impact.
Nope… Did not fall asleep in that class again.
Sheesh! That sounds a lot like SSG Swackhammer. I swear that is his real name and he must have been 6’6″ tall and build like Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Fortunately I never felt his wrath.
–ghp
Sounds like my college classes. Windows wouldn’t open, no fresh air. I’m sitting in the front row in Criminology class, staring straight ahead and sleeping with my eyes wide open. I zoned out for 40 seconds while my pen trailed off the paper onto the floor.
Hey, glad to hear that I wasn’t the only one to perfect sleeping with my eyes wide open.
In AIT, I was still so intimidated, I couldn’t fall asleep, if I had tried.
When I was a wet-behind-the-ears “Joe” in OSUT Basic/AIT, I had a DS that I swear wanted to see me wash out. One way he messed with me was to make sure I did two hours of Fire Watch each night and promised me an Article 15 if I ever fell asleep, fire watch or during training. Yeah, I fell asleep standing in the chow line holding my tray, but another DS took me into the office and gave me a “smoking” as a punishment instead. That was an experience, being woke up by some contractor cook yelling at me asking what I wanted! The DS was playing some other games, and he got busted for violating Regulation 350-10, Abuses in Training, and I graduated. But Basic & AIT taught me how to take a nap while standing, a talent that came in handy during long field problems!!
Wasn’t Bullethead Dennis Chevy (LtCol-Doc) a security guard too?
For the USAF, if I recall correctly. As a civilian or contractor (definitely non-military).
I wonder if the security was provided by All-Points Logistics or Ambassador Worldwide Protection Agency (another company run by a fake SEAL)?
I knew it! I f@cking knew it! I had a bet with myself Green Thumb, on how long before you referenced the security company being All-Points Logistics. I WON! I just earned myself a day off, well the rest of the day. I’m closing up the work computer and dedicating the rest of my day as “Green Thumb Day”. In honor of you my man! Thanks for the day off! By the way, you never let me down GT!
And they want to hire Dennis’s cheese impacted bowel’s to replace our napper up top.
According to the Post, Abdul is blind in one eye and has hazy vision in the other. The guards are furnished by Durst Corp, a high-end real estate company. Lord knows how Durst gets these guys. Abdul isn’t armed so I have no idea what he’s supposed to do in the event trouble walks in on two feet. Chances are very good that the security is to detect fire and theft, not terrorism.
Well so far they’ve managed to detect their guards ain’t worth a shit….
Bwa-hahahahahaha!
–ghp
Observe and Report… it’s not just the name of a stupid movie. It is the actual phrase I was taught when getting my Security Officer credentials…
Ya gets what ya pays for. Abdul is a living example of that.
You get what you pay for in security guards.
One thing to address is that a site’s security needs to entail the procedures in place and facilities fo the guards.
If you don’t want someone to fall asleep, dont give him a place to sit down constantly.
Then should contract through Ambassador Worldwide Protection Agency. That right folks! AWPA provides both security for national and international clients.
Turds.
Read their reviews if you wants good laugh.
Check out this website and company. Fake SEALS (CEO)and former security “experts”.
http://www.awpa1.com/
You owe me a new phone, man.
Oh hell… I’ve seen these knobs before. They have contracts in some of the upscale neighborhoods my former company had customers in.
Check out their website and check out some of their staff, to indluide their fake SEAL CEO.
Yikes.
These folks could not secure a warm bottle of piss. And I have yet to see a positive review.
When you call you get hung up on when inquiring about his SEAL status and former criminal record, racial slurs (which is interesting considering the CEO is an African-American) and some maggot telling you he has an IQ of 163. Yeah, I know, it sounds weird because its just that bizarre.
Just read the bios.
Old Dog, I should have scrolled down, didn’t mean to borrow your opening.
Sigh!!!!
1.) Make sitting on the job an offense you can be fired for.
2.) Remove chairs and places to sit from the work area.
3.) Set up detex rounds (not sure if any old salts here remember or had to do those.) If the keys or check points aren’t found to have been done in a regular hourly or half-hourly fashion, or done at all… well then fire them!
If you find photos of security guards taken 50, 60 or 70 years ago, they wore sharp uniforms that demonstrated their role and authority. Today they dress like bums or buy work uniforms a few sizes too big to look like hoodlums even on the job. They need to whoop some ass and make these jobs APPEAR as respectable and demanding as they once did.
We used to refer to it as checking the eyelids for light leaks. Definitely not sleeping.
You mean Eyelid PMCS?
If I found a man sleeping like this bloke is on my watch, he would have the next few months to sleep all he wanted to. He would be out the gate faster then a speeding Gazel.
His ass would be like an afterburner, red hot and smoking.
I bet if NRRO (Naval Reactors Representative Office) paid a visit to a boat at 0300 and found any of the watchstanders (especially the Shutdown Reactor Operator) in that position, the SRO could TRY to make that claim.
Right up to the point he got disqualified, busted, restricted, and possibly/probably de-nuked.
When I was Commander of an AIT Company, I gave a Summary Article 15 to a trainee who kept falling asleep on fire guard. To impress upon him how serious the matter was, I opened up the Manual for Courts Martial and showed him that the maximum punishment for dereliction of duty as a sentry in time of war was the death penalty. He opted to take 48 hours to consider what he would do. The next day, I got a call from a Chaplain wanting to know why we were going to kill this kid. The DIs got a good laugh out of that. I think I ended up giving him a week of restriction and extra duty.