First day on the job...

Ok, I have a feeling that I am going to see a lot of very interesting things while working for Metro Security, and wanted to have a place to keep all them together. So here it is.

Anyway, Finished my 8 hours of Basic training with Metro on Thursday, Sept 9th. Passed all the tests with flying colors. Went down to D.O.P.L. (Department of Occupational and Professional Licensing) and paid the $100.00 to get my Security License. Friday, Sept 10th I returned to Metro for orientation and to get my uniforms... Orientation went fine, but the uniforms are another matter. Seems big guys like me are the "average" in the security industry. They didnt have any uniforms in my size. I had the choice of one 2 sizes smaller or 4 sizes bigger. Neither was going to work, and I can't go on the jobsite unless I have a proper uniform.

Fast forward thru many calls and txts to Wednesday, Sept 15th. Finally I get a txt back that they have a used shirt that once belonged to an EMT. They have removed the EMT patch, so now there was a huge dried glue spot about 6 inches across on the right breast area. he said if I worked a grave that it wouldn't matter. So I called the Site Supervisor at the Utah State Fair, my first post, to let him know that I could start working on Thursday, Sept 16th, and his response was," I have a shift that needs filled right now, can you be here in 30 minutes?" I still had not been downtown to get the single uniform they had. I informed him about the glue spot, and he didn't care, so I told him it would be an hour.

My brother-in-law Emer was kind enough to run me downtown to get the uniform, wait for me to change into it, and then run me out to the fairgrounds.

Now FINALLY on the jobsite, I have to try and find one guy in the thousands that were there, he was not picking up his phone, and I have never seen this guy before. It took twenty minutes to find out where out CP(Command Post) was set up at and to find the site supervisor Josh. He put me on a golf cart and took me straight to Gate 6 at the fairgrounds. My instructions boiled down to, you are not the employee of the Fairgrounds, but you are there to back them up. Do what security they ask of you.

I relieved the guard they had been staying late until I could get there. Having been my first day, I didnt know that I was supposed to get the radio from him, or that I was supposed to even have a radio. I was stationed at gate 6, the animal exit gate which aslo was a ticketing gate as well. One of my favorite parts was when people were leaving with the animals, I took their release form, which told me how many animals and of what kind they were taking out. I then got to count every animal in all the trailers. That was pretty fun. Later on when they realized I was not answering my radio, they sent someone by. only to find that I didn't have a radio, so they brought me a radio.

The rest of the night was pretty eventful, from what I heard on the radio. We had a guy with his 3 children in the Bunny Barn, throwing fireworks at the bunnies just hours before the judging was to take place. Scorching some of the fur on a few of the bunnies. We had a man walking around with a small blue cooler on wheels selling illegal firearms out of it. When we detained him waiting for the police, we found 17 handguns in the cooler, plus 2 on his waistband. The two on his waist he was legally carrying, the others were definitely illegal. We had a drunk lady passed out in the horse pen in a pool of her own vomit. All in all an interesting night. At 10pm all gates except mine were closed, and I was flooded with trailers full of animals to count. Finally was relieved from my position at 11:45pm and headed to the CP to sign out. What an interesting first day on the job!