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Posted: 11/19/2018 11:19:47 AM EDT

News of QuikTrip looking to hire armed clerks — a hybrid position between a protective services agent and a store clerk — appears to have generated a lot of inquiries, though some may be confused about what specific experience the position requires.

QuikTrip has been testing the hybrid employee program for six months at a few locations in Wichita. There are visual cues that make it easy to differentiate between regular QT workers and the hybrid employees, who are armed, according to a previous story.

According to a job description, the purpose of the hybrid employee’s role is to “deter illegal activity, theft and vandalism,” as well as protect employees, customers, visitors and the company’s property. All that will be in addition to the regular, day-to-day activities comprising a clerk’s duties.

The hybrid employee job requires relevant certifications as armed security officer or a peace officer. The requirements for those certifications vary by state. QuikTrip wants protective agents certified in electronic stun devices, pepper spray, first aid, baton use and hand irons, according to the job posting. The level of experience QuikTrip requires for protective agents working as clerks — at least three years as a peace officer or five as a reserve officer, armed security officer or honorable military service — may preclude many less-experienced applicants from being considered.

QuikTrip began advertising early this month for the new position, with starting pay around $32 per hour. Thornbrugh said it was a challenge recruiting in Wichita for the job. The most challenging requirement, Thornbrugh said, was finding a fit for the QuikTrip corporate culture.

He said few people with the required experience may be interested in doing the daily work of a convenience store, but “there’s the right person for this job, and we’re patient.”

https://www.tulsaworld.com/news/local/want-to-work-for-quiktrip-as-an-armed-clerk-bring/article_a6d9f837-b42d-5cb5-a9bd-f45da8bd227f.html

Posted: 11/19/2018 11:22:37 AM EDT

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Deployed to the most hazardous stores in the highest crime rate areas no doubt. Maybe stores with a record of armed robberies already. Worth getting into a shootout (and fired) for $32/hr?

Posted: 11/19/2018 11:23:53 AM EDT

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$32 an hour? Wow!

Posted: 11/19/2018 11:25:02 AM EDT

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Unless you're a cop taking security gigs as secondary jobs/overtime/special duty it isn't worth it to take a job like this.

As a non-LEO you're not allowed to do much and can get into all sorts of legal and civil trouble.

Posted: 11/19/2018 11:25:22 AM EDT

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I live in the Tulsa area.

Most off-duty cops here want $35/hr just to sit on their ass and play computer Solitaire or surf the internet while waiting for something to happen. They don't want to WORK for it. You should be happy they graced you with their mere presence.

I'll be surprised if they get anyone with a commission card to run a cash register and empty trash cans while having to deal with snotty panhandlers begging in front of the stores.

ETA: And you're an idiot if you work security without a full LEO commission in Tulsa. They will throw you UNDER the bus the first time you have to defend your life against any "protected classes" (...read: Rich and Vibrant ) even if they're trying to run you down and kill you with their hoopty-car.

Tulsa, the libtard capitol of Oklahoma

Posted: 11/19/2018 11:25:22 AM EDT

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Don't some backwoods police departments pay less than that?

ETA: Everyone can stop pointing out how little other departments make

Posted: 11/19/2018 11:26:14 AM EDT

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I'm in for the awesome security cam videos of would be thieves getting ventilated.

Posted: 11/19/2018 11:28:41 AM EDT

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I work in a fairly decent sized department for this area....and I make half that as a 15 year guy.

Posted: 11/19/2018 11:29:32 AM EDT

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Guy out of the .mil with not much but combat arms, the proper training, etc, seems like a decent gig, 50hrs per week would gross 90+ k

Posted: 11/19/2018 11:29:44 AM EDT

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Deployed to the most hazardous stores in the highest crime rate areas no doubt. Maybe stores with a record of armed robberies already. Worth getting into a shootout (and fired) for $32/hr?

Don't some backwoods police departments pay less than that?

Most cops make much less than 32 dollars an hour to start.

Posted: 11/19/2018 11:30:49 AM EDT

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... fuck no

Posted: 11/19/2018 11:31:37 AM EDT

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Interesting. QT has tended to look the other way when employees carried on duty. They have also always done a lot to encourage police to come and hang out in their stores.

Good on them.

Used to know one of the dudes that helped found QT. He was a cool old dude.

Posted: 11/19/2018 11:32:34 AM EDT

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Deployed to the most hazardous stores in the highest crime rate areas no doubt. Maybe stores with a record of armed robberies already. Worth getting into a shootout (and fired) for $32/hr?

Don't some backwoods police departments pay less than that?

There are a lot of police and sheriff departments that pay less that $15 an hour.

Posted: 11/19/2018 11:32:37 AM EDT

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I work in a fairly decent sized department for this area....and I make half that as a 15 year guy.

Posted: 11/19/2018 11:32:43 AM EDT

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Unless you're a cop taking security gigs as secondary jobs/overtime/special duty it isn't worth it to take a job like this.

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Deployed to the most hazardous stores in the highest crime rate areas no doubt. Maybe stores with a record of armed robberies already. Worth getting into a shootout (and fired) for $32/hr?

Unless you're a cop taking security gigs as secondary jobs/overtime/special duty it isn't worth it to take a job like this.

As a non-LEO you're not allowed to do much and can get into all sorts of legal and civil trouble.

I wouldn't take a job like this that expects me to stock the candy bar section, work a register and carry a gun.

Posted: 11/19/2018 11:33:59 AM EDT

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Neither will any other commissioned officer in this state.

Posted: 11/19/2018 11:34:05 AM EDT

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$32 an hour is more than some full time cops get here in Souhern Colorado.

Posted: 11/19/2018 11:34:05 AM EDT

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Deployed to the most hazardous stores in the highest crime rate areas no doubt. Maybe stores with a record of armed robberies already. Worth getting into a shootout (and fired) for $32/hr?

Unless you're a cop taking security gigs as secondary jobs/overtime/special duty it isn't worth it to take a job like this.

As a non-LEO you're not allowed to do much and can get into all sorts of legal and civil trouble.

I wouldn't take a job like this that expects me to stock the candy bar section, work a register and carry a gun.

On the contrary, I think being able to do it armed would make those menial tasks much more interesting

Posted: 11/19/2018 11:36:13 AM EDT

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That's a base pay of $66,560. Considering US household median income is ~62k/yr and this employment is in Kansas. They ought to find a few takers.

I would do it if I was out of work.

Posted: 11/19/2018 11:36:37 AM EDT

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Such is life.

I have the best job on earth, a good schedule, and most of my bills are paid on time. My kids aren't hungry, and I have enough extra to play every now and then. In a few years I can draw a pension check for enough to hopefully invest while I start my next career.

Posted: 11/19/2018 11:37:28 AM EDT

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What, exactly, is their "corporate culture"?

That would be my first question.

Posted: 11/19/2018 11:37:36 AM EDT

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Oddly enough, I happen to know a number of guys in that area who are commissioned, and who have interviewed.

$32/hr is crazy money in Oklahoma, especially in this field.

Posted: 11/19/2018 11:41:14 AM EDT

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QT has always had the highest pay scales for cashier jobs at a gas station. 20 years ago they were paying regular cashiers $12-$14 per hour. I love QT as their stations are always clean and their cashiers are fast. No long waits in line there. Unfortunately they have been selling their stores in my area to Circle K which is one of the nastiest chains with employees that all look like they might rob you instead of you robbing them.

Posted: 11/19/2018 11:42:28 AM EDT

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QT has always had the highest pay scales for cashier jobs at a gas station. 20 years ago they were paying regular cashiers $12-$14 per hour. I love QT as their stations are always clean and their cashiers are fast. No long waits in line there. Unfortunately they have been selling their stores in my area to Circle K which is one of the nastiest chains with employees that all look like they might rob you instead of you robbing them.

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$32 an hour? Wow!

QT has always had the highest pay scales for cashier jobs at a gas station. 20 years ago they were paying regular cashiers $12-$14 per hour. I love QT as their stations are always clean and their cashiers are fast. No long waits in line there. Unfortunately they have been selling their stores in my area to Circle K which is one of the nastiest chains with employees that all look like they might rob you instead of you robbing them.

The threat of being robbed is a small price to pay for delicious Polar Pop

Posted: 11/19/2018 11:45:11 AM EDT

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Interesting. QT has tended to look the other way when employees carried on duty. They have also always done a lot to encourage police to come and hang out in their stores.

Good on them.

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Lots of them around me have little offices set up in back for cops to use as sub stations. You usually see a marked unit or two in the parking lot at any given time. It's a smart strategy as the closest QT by me has never been robbed but the Caseys a few blocks down the road from it gets robbed once or twice a month it seems.

Posted: 11/19/2018 11:45:49 AM EDT

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I work in a fairly decent sized department for this area....and I make half that as a 15 year guy.

Damn.

Posted: 11/19/2018 11:47:04 AM EDT

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And I will just say it.

QT > Buc-ee's.

Posted: 11/19/2018 11:47:12 AM EDT

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Deployed to the most hazardous stores in the highest crime rate areas no doubt. Maybe stores with a record of armed robberies already. Worth getting into a shootout (and fired) for $32/hr?

Unless you're a cop taking security gigs as secondary jobs/overtime/special duty it isn't worth it to take a job like this.

As a non-LEO you're not allowed to do much and can get into all sorts of legal and civil trouble.

I wouldn't take a job like this that expects me to stock the candy bar section, work a register and carry a gun.

I imagine it's better than wrestling with some lice infested bum who just shit his pants for $12/hr less which is standard non OT rates for cops around here.

Posted: 11/19/2018 11:48:04 AM EDT

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I had to break out a classic for this.

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QT > Buc-ee's.

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Posted: 11/19/2018 11:48:11 AM EDT

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Lots of them around me have little offices set up in back for cops to use as sub stations. You usually see a marked unit or two in the parking lot at any given time. It's a smart strategy as the closest QT by me has never been robbed but the Caseys a few blocks down the road from it gets robbed once or twice a month it seems.

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Interesting. QT has tended to look the other way when employees carried on duty. They have also always done a lot to encourage police to come and hang out in their stores.

Good on them.

Used to know one of the dudes that helped found QT. He was a cool old dude.

Lots of them around me have little offices set up in back for cops to use as sub stations. You usually see a marked unit or two in the parking lot at any given time. It's a smart strategy as the closest QT by me has never been robbed but the Caseys a few blocks down the road from it gets robbed once or twice a month it seems.

Free drinks and food.

Posted: 11/19/2018 11:48:33 AM EDT

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Yeah..I used to worry about it....but at this point, its not a big deal. If I want to keep doing this, and live anywhere close to here, this is what it pays. Luckily, cost of living is cheap, and the wife has a pretty decent gig....so life goes on.

Posted: 11/19/2018 11:50:28 AM EDT

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As a guy looking for a retirement job this has my interest.

Posted: 11/19/2018 11:51:08 AM EDT

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This will be a cop only gig in Georgia. Although QT here rarely gets robbed.

Posted: 11/19/2018 11:51:15 AM EDT

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I am sure it is working nights and most people hate working nights

Posted: 11/19/2018 11:51:18 AM EDT

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$32 an hour? Wow!

QT has always had the highest pay scales for cashier jobs at a gas station. 20 years ago they were paying regular cashiers $12-$14 per hour. I love QT as their stations are always clean and their cashiers are fast. No long waits in line there. Unfortunately they have been selling their stores in my area to Circle K which is one of the nastiest chains with employees that all look like they might rob you instead of you robbing them.

The threat of being robbed is a small price to pay for delicious Polar Pop

QuikTrip has cheap fountain soda too and you don't have to wade through a sticky puddle or face Sh'donnarehhea and her 6" press on fingernails of doom to get it.

Posted: 11/19/2018 11:51:31 AM EDT

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to guard a store and possibly take a bullet for a packet of smokes and 50 in the till

works out perfect

Posted: 11/19/2018 11:52:50 AM EDT

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Why in Gods name are they making the armed clerks "identifiable"?

I might work for that much, but not if I have to wear a sign that says "shoot me first ".

Posted: 11/19/2018 11:53:23 AM EDT

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I like their chocolate-cholcolate donuts. I could watch them for $32/hr.

Posted: 11/19/2018 11:54:26 AM EDT

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God help the area if some kid gets popped with skittles and tea in his pocket

I'd need some significant bonefides before taking that one. Legal and liability concerns out the ass, what the SOP/ROE is gonna be, and QI would be nice

Posted: 11/19/2018 11:59:24 AM EDT

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Such is life.

I have the best job on earth, a good schedule, and most of my bills are paid on time. My kids aren't hungry, and I have enough extra to play every now and then. In a few years I can draw a pension check for enough to hopefully invest while I start my next career.

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Such is life.

I have the best job on earth, a good schedule, and most of my bills are paid on time. My kids aren't hungry, and I have enough extra to play every now and then. In a few years I can draw a pension check for enough to hopefully invest while I start my next career.

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Bless you and your family sir. A small token from a fat bald overweight guy with barely enough balls to post on here, much less to wear the uniform.

Posted: 11/19/2018 12:00:02 PM EDT

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Looks like I’m moving to Kansas. There really ain’t anything around these parts that calls for an 11B’s background. I tried to do the PMC thing years ago, (2010ish) but I wasn’t HSLD enough.

Posted: 11/19/2018 12:00:27 PM EDT

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I am in Caddo county and none of the LEO's here make anywhere close to $32 an hour. I am sure any of them would jump on something like this if we had a QT close enough. I have only seem them in OKC.
There is one local LEO working night security at a nearby cotton gin, I can only imagine they are paying maybe 9 or 10 an hour, he would jump a over $32 an hour.

Posted: 11/19/2018 12:00:29 PM EDT

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All the ones around here (Rural area) pay much less, unless you have some rank, even then...

Posted: 11/19/2018 12:01:44 PM EDT

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Because a visibly armed guard constantly on site reduces the chance someone robs them.

They don't want anyone to get shot. At the same time they don't want to get robbed.

Posted: 11/19/2018 12:02:13 PM EDT

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Bet this works better than putting up some stupid "No guns allowed" sign.

Posted: 11/19/2018 12:02:25 PM EDT

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I missed where it said they were.

They are using the same rational logic that being in an armed society is. Who has a gun? Could be anyone.
Furthermore, with using LE/MIL only, they are rolling the dice in their favor of having people with a little bit of steel in their backbone (notice I did not say guarantee).

Posted: 11/19/2018 12:02:38 PM EDT

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For those of you saying "no way", realize that the QT police will be making more than many real police officers. Hell, a 20 year sergeant around here makes less than that.

Posted: 11/19/2018 12:03:07 PM EDT

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$32 an hour? Wow!

QT has always had the highest pay scales for cashier jobs at a gas station. 20 years ago they were paying regular cashiers $12-$14 per hour. I love QT as their stations are always clean and their cashiers are fast. No long waits in line there. Unfortunately they have been selling their stores in my area to Circle K which is one of the nastiest chains with employees that all look like they might rob you instead of you robbing them.

The threat of being robbed is a small price to pay for delicious Polar Pop

QuikTrip has cheap fountain soda too and you don't have to wade through a sticky puddle or face Sh'donnarehhea and her 6" press on fingernails of doom to get it.

Not the same without that extra thiccc styrofoam cup

Posted: 11/19/2018 12:06:07 PM EDT

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This probably deserves its own thread.

Posted: 11/19/2018 12:06:42 PM EDT

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A lot of cops make half or less than half of that and the majority of their transactions are with criminals.

Posted: 11/19/2018 12:08:41 PM EDT

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My daughter worked at several QTs in St. Louis over the last few years. She worked her way up to management and put her in charge of her own store.

From talking to her, It all went down hill for when they moved her to a hood store and she worked the overnight shift.
She said most of the time she worked 10-12 hour shifts and was mostly alone. Hardly any overlap, so she could hardly ever could take a break, even to go to the bathroom as the register and store would be unattended and the place would get emptied out.

She said it sucked as they could not do anything to prevent theft and the "Shrinkage" caused her to loose pay/bonuses...

She left and ended up taking a management spot at some craft store closer to where she lives...

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