I miss all the fun. :(

I just got off the phone with my S/S. He was responding to my message about the promotion from the other day. Sure, it was a bit late, but I got to find out why.

On my days off, this workaholic guy that works the site with me covers my graveyard shifts. And yesterday someone broke in and stole a laptop. Apparently this guard is pissed, but I'll bet it's more that he's embarrassed.

All the more so because it was another security company that does bike patrol in the area that phoned and alerted him to it. ;)

Ah well, he was apparently doing his rounds in a distant part of the building at the time and didn't hear anything. It happens. But me, with my bionic ears...

Nevermind that fantasy. But now I get to be on alert (as opposed to just being alert) for a while in case they decide the building's an easy plum to pick. We get to make security suggestions in our reports, and I've got a few:

Close the fucking blinds! I'd want them up a few centimeters so that as I'm going by on patrol I can see if there is glass on the sill, but they should still obstruct anybody's view into the room. Why show what's available for the taking?

Lock up your laptops! They've had problems with them in the past (but not middle of the night smash and grabs) and introduced some procedures for the employees to follow. But apparently that's too much bother for some people, as rarely a week goes by that I don't find a laptop or three that I could walk out with. So I secure them.

I know it looks pretty, and is very soothing to people... but the foliage that's up against the building has to go. It makes that side dark, and that's not a friend of security, is it?

For that matter, landscaping that involves rocks next to a building made of glass (even if it is armoured glass) is just dumb. Those ought to go too.

Oh, and one last thing - there's music that plays in some of the common areas on the first level. But all the controls for them are locked off due to employees having problems with volume, apparently. That crap needs to be shut off when work is over. I certainly don't need to listen to it (and it sucks), and isn't it more important that I hear breaking glass or footsteps than Celine Dion? (The answer is yes)

Well, we'll see if they come back when I'm on shift. I'll throw my frickin' SHOE at them!

Oh, and during the course of this conversation, my S/S asked what I'd originally called about. After I told him, but before I told him if I accepted it or not, he said "You'd have to be a fucking idiot to go mobile. They work those poor sons of bitches like dogs."

How nice to know I made the right choice, eh? :) I might go that way later, but who knows?