As some might know, at the moment I am working at a major global consulting company with around 140,000 employees worldwide. As far as I know the Finland office though consists of less than one percent of that global manpower :)
Some might think that working at such a company is interesting (or some might think the opposite), and that there must be some good stories to tell. I don't deny that, but still those stories are kind of shallow in comparison (in a certain sense) to some of the experiences I had when working as a summer security guard summer 2006.
Overall considering the time I worked as a guard, 99% of the time
nothing happened, but the one percent when something happened was interesting to say the least.
I won't tell the name of the company I worked for, but it's probably the world's largest company in the security business and has even more employess than the consulting company I work for. This company is also Swedish :)
One rememberable thing was my first day at work. The job was a 16 hour night shift (4PM to 8AM) at a local art museum. The first day at the job we work with someone who is used to work at the particular place, for showing us the routines and how to use the surveillance devices, who to call during each situation and for telling the special circumstances at the work place.
(All that was really needed to done was doing a check at night, that all the doors are locked).
The person who taught me was a usual Finnish older guy, who had apparently done odd jobs for his whole life. Kind of a normal kinda guy. He told me how his daughter had gone married and recenly got a child and so on. Everything seemed like I would have a normal night working with him. It was then however around 2AM maybe, that he started surfing the internet. First he surfed some normal message boards, although he seemed to like topics that had something to do with sex. Then around 3AM the sites he surfed started to change, there started to be some pretty graphic pictures, naked women in strange positions and the like. I was wondering if it's really ok to do that at the work, while at the same time trying to ignore him doing it. He didn't seem at all bothered I was there though.
Then around 4AM he switched to downloading porn movies from the internet and watching them on the work computer. I was trying my best to not look at his direction and kept reading my magazine to stay discreet of course :) Didnt want to get in the middle of him and his enjoyment. Around 4:30AM though he seemed to start having some technical problem with the computer. Anti-virus software reported multiple infections (that's what you get for downloading free porn off the internet...). I couldn't ignore him anymore, and as an elderly guy he wasn't too good with computers, so I had to help him. Luckily the anti-virus software took care of everything, and forced a reboot (which probably wasn't very good for security reasons).
Now you'd think this man would learn and not watch porn anymore, but alas, no.
After the reboot, he went on back to downloading more porn. And he wasn't downloading any soft-core stuff either, oh no, it was the toughest hard core and some of the craziest stuff I've seen, was right then, during my first day at work there.
Around 5AM he couldn't hide his habit from me, although I did my best ignoring him and reading the same magazine for hours. No he just couldn't keep himself from telling me about the porn he just got his hands on. It was a clip of
machine-porn. Machine-porn you ask? Yeah it's apparently a type of entertaiment where you show the most imaginative machines, doing the most imaginative things you could imagine to a poor (yet, enthusiastically screaming) woman.
The old man was so happy by this new discovery, that he felt the urge to ask for my opinion.
With my most talented poker face i said, "Yeah....that's...
interesting".
Yeah, that was a long night.
