‘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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Etai Eshet • Editor
May 11, 2026 7:15 AM EDT

Working a 45-hour security week on overnight shifts is already a commitment that most people would not volunteer for twice. Add an unpaid hour before the shift to pick up the vehicle, an unpaid 35-minute drive home after, and now an additional detour to drop off a coworker who does not own a car, and the job description has quietly expanded by about two hours a day without the compensation moving an inch.

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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?

    So basically I'm 4 months into my new security job full-time tactical guard. I do mobile patrol in a company vehicle every shift, I work 45 hours a week getting paid $18.00 an hour.
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  • I work 5-6 days a week from 7pm 4am. Regular hours for me, I come into work 1 hour early to pick up vehicle since I live 35mins away. After doing pre-trip and post-trip
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  • inspections on the company vehicle I then drive back home which is 35mins, by the time I'm home it's already 5:15am. (Sleep and repeat)
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  • Today a new guard started and now I'm required to drive him home after every shift since he doesn't own a car.
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  • Reminder I don't get paid to come in early and pick up the company vehicle and I don't get paid dropping the new employee off at home.
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  • Now I come home around 5:50am 6:00am since I had to drop him off and go back to the office and drop off the vehicle.
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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.

  • I'm upset that I have to do this and my manager told me it's required. My manager has a hard time finding drivers for this assigned area which is a remote town located 40mims out of the city.
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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.

  • I don't get paid enough for this, I feel like putting in my 2 weeks if my manager doesn't approve my request of not being required to drop the new guy off.
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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.

  • jdo5000 If you're not getting paid for it then you need to stop doing it, that includes coming in an hour early.
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  • HawXProductions If you drop him off in the company car, it should be paid for on the clock. If it's your own car, just say no. What will they do? Fire you? lol
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  • Either way both s k, and should be compensated if it's required. If not - leave. He will figure it out
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  • yikesyowzandsheesh I think you should post this in one of the legal communities here on Reddit as I have a feeling you are being robbed of
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  • your wages. Please get written evidence of what your boss is telling you and document this before quitting.
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  • You may also be able to file for those unpaid wages as well.
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  • To add, you are never wrong for quitting a job in any case for any reason, let alone one that doesn't value you or pay you properly. Best of luck!
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  • Chaos-Wayfarer Never done security, but at every job I've worked they ask if you have a reliable form of transportation. Like your own car. Or a bus. Forcing another employee to take you home is odd and definitely sus.
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