Pros
You'll get to work alongside some knowledgeable security guards. Looks good on your CV. Good for experiance. Networking outside your own department. The odd decent benefit or perk here and there.
Cons
Long hours You'll be working 6 days/night regularly despite the job being advertised as 4 on 4 off. Very poor work life balance, especially for the night workers. No anti social hours pay. Not payed for lunch. Removed a lot benefits. Witnessed good loyal people being made redundant during covid for managers to then hire close family and friends for temp matchday roles. Recruitment levels are poor and slow. High turnover of guards which is a major red flag. Security supervisors leaving what is meant to be a great job, another red flag. Quality of some guards is way below the standard required to be even doing this line of work. PDR is outdated and not even applicable to the actual role. Security Managers are out of there depth and fail to keep on top of very basic responsibilities i.e, H&S, duty of care, providing adequate training. Witnessed multiple H&S and ICO breaches. Some of which still continue no doubt. One rule for one, one rule for another is a common theme. Security managers have there favourites. Cliquey mentalities amongst some guards. Security managers have lost there grip with authority and has been the case for years now. Security managers have lied to the entirety of there workforce in the past and as a result guards don't believe what comes from them anymore. Poor working enviroments or equipment. You'll regularly see the club spend money everywhere else improving things but never improvements for the security teams. HR department seemingly have no interest in what goes on or they are simply no told the full extend of the problems.
