A starbucks barista is expected to gatekeep who’s allowed in their place of business too. Basically everyone in retail is working security as part of their job. They’re all cops, right?
I’m not being a fucking debate bro, I’m making a serious point that you should be more mindful of who you’re calling cops. The definition of cop you’re using is completely pointless and paints TONS of our comrades as cops. It’s fucking shitty behavior to just go around calling people cops for having a normal goddamn job in this capitalist hellscape. When I worked the front desk at a gym, my primary job was keeping out people who weren’t supposed to be there. Does that make me a cop? Does it make you feel good to call your comrades cops for trying to make fucking money so we can fucking eat food?
When I worked the front desk at a gym, my primary job was keeping out people who weren’t supposed to be there. Does that make me a cop?
Unless your company didn’t care about liability and had you physically barring people, your job was to call the cops lol.
Security guards are the ones responding to your call if they’re on site, and many are required to be physical if anything happens, although a lot of places will also have them just call cops if they’re unarmed. So being a security guard proper is closer to being a cop than you threatening to call the cops if some disruptive guy trespasses.
But to call anyone remotely involved with security or reporting a cop is pretty funny. The teenage cashier at Walmart is a cop because his manager tells him to check people’s receipts and report any theft lol.
I’m not going to debate the role “security” play in upholding racist and classist systems of oppression, no matter how much you want to excuse it. Find somewhere else
