Recent purchases end up with conflicting cultures - Security Officer Allied Universal Employee Review

2.0
Nov 4, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Some good managers, some good employees, many sites in the bay area.

Cons

The purchase of Guardsmark and thr merger of universal and Allied have ended up with a hideously muddled culture. Some offices are mostly employees from one company or another and seeming grudges abound. So that and the problems found in most of the security industry, namely seeing officers as disposable.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

Some of the people you meet are cool and you make real good connections with the professional guards (not a lot, but i got lucky)

Cons

*Management doesn't answer their phones *Management don't want to help you address the issues onsite unless the manager of that site has an issue. *Rude and non responsive office. *Operations managers and client managers are useless. (Their assistants do a better job than they do) *The guards are not the priority to management and the company. Very childish and hostile environment. *A lack of structure, communication and support.

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