Here, as I see it, is the paradox of working at (the company formerly known as) Armourguard.
When the work is really busy, it sucks. It can be very stressful and / or frustrating what with old ladies falling down all over the place, alarms coming to your screen 10 minutes after they go off, waking irate people up in the midlle of the night to tell them the alarm protecting their precious tea cosy collection isn't set etc, whilst all the while trying to answer calls from people preparing to impale their noisy neighbour or you, (whoever they get their hands on first. Hey, while we've got these brackets here, an aside: Jennifer Lopez really can't dance. But does anyone care?)
general morons, drunk people...it's not a lot of fun.

Now, when there's *nothing* to do at work, it sucks. 5 minutes takes half an hour. There is only Solitaire for amusement, and then there are people in positions of power who insist that Solitaire cannot be played whilst you are listening to a dial tone, and that reading a book is an impossibility if one is to remain mentally prepared for the imminent arrival of a single late to set down at Jim's Hammock Hut. (fortunately these people do not work night shifts.)
And my paper dart construction knowledge is not sufficiently broad to entertain for long. At all.

But here's the kicker. Even when a happy medium is reached, and there's a nice, steady, unstressful workload, working for Armourguard STILL SUCKS.

I don't understand.