‘I don’t get paid enough for this, I feel like putting in my 2 weeks’: Security guard pushed to quit after boss demands he drive a new coworker home after every shift, adding an unpaid hour to his commute

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• Am I wrong for putting in my 2weeks for my security job since I’m required to drive a new employee from work to home after every shift?

  
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• You see, the unpaid bookends are the part that gets glossed over in this situation. Plenty of jobs have some version of setup and wrap-up time that falls outside the official clock, and most people absorb it because it is minor. This is not minor. This is a person working nights until four in the morning, adding a full extra hour of driving around a remote area before finally getting home at six in the morning, and being told it is just part of the job. The paycheck does not reflect any of that.

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• Hiring someone without a car for a role in a remote town forty minutes outside the city and then solving the transportation problem by assigning it to an existing employee is a creative management solution in the same way that asking a guest to cook dinner is a creative hosting solution. It technically addresses the problem while completely missing the point.

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• The manager's candid admission that the area is hard to staff is doing a lot of unintentional work in this story. It explains why the new hire got the job without a vehicle, why the transportation problem got handed downstream instead of solved at the hiring level, and why the existing employee's objection is probably being treated as an inconvenience rather than a reasonable response to an unreasonable ask.

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• Putting in two weeks over this is NOT an overreaction. Getting paid 18 dollars an hour for mobile patrol is one agreement. Getting paid eighteen dollars an hour to do mobile patrol plus serve as an unpaid rideshare driver through a remote area until six in the morning is a different agreement entirely, and nobody asked before making the switch.

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