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r/talesfromsecurity • … • u/NightSkulker

My personal contact numbers aren't *YOUR* business numbers

I do contract security at a warehouse. About nine years back some rectal millinery wearer went into the security booth while security wasn't on duty and gave out *everyone's phone number*. Not just security but site management as well. So I started to receive emergency product calls on my cellphone and home phone. I informed the callers of the fact that these numbers were my personal numbers for home and cellphone and they didn't belong to the site management, nor were they for emergency product calls. The callers would repeatedly complain and try to get me to take information I could do nothing with while at home, so I reminded them of the proper procedure to follow. Insert tantrum here. Then the alarm company called me for a trouble alarm. I'm not on duty, nothing I can do about it at the moment. They were miffed, I told them to remove my home numbers from the call list. Site employee then calls me and leaves a voicemail to call off from work.

Meanwhile, those emergency product calls? Yeah, the callers were given the personal numbers of site management who were getting a bit upset about being called at home nonstop. I ended up blocking a ton of phone numbers. Had told site management to reign in their people and they probably should block some numbers as well. That went over well. "Can't you just take the calls?" Yeah...at home...on my days off...not paid to deal with it...yeah gonna pass on that.

But we never did find out who gave out the numbers, site management tried to string us up for what one of their managers did but that didn't work since it was obvious that a manager accessed the information and not us. (I will leave it to your imagination to think of how this was figured out.) Yeah, nine years later the guard booth still isn't manned during certain hours and we're not allowed to lock up our paperwork despite proving that site employees enter said booth between shifts.

Any stupid prizes like the above happen at your sites? Share the misery!

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