A joke - Security Professional Allied Universal Employee Review

1.0
Dec 1, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Close to home. You can come to work and sleep, watch movies on your phone, do absolutely NOTHING the entire time you are there and management does not care. But don't get caught actually doing your job; they may move you to another post and completely change your schedule.

Cons

Living paycheck to paycheck (barely) because they don't pay a livable wage. Management lets certain people do what they want to prevent people from complaining about the management. Adults acting like preschoolers because they did not get their way or they got in trouble. Extremely frustrating when you are an employee who comes to work and does their job and anything asked of you and you do it without problems, but you get moved because you complained that someone doesn't do their job. I only started with the company because I needed the money. Its not much money but I need it. I really wish I would have never accepted employment.

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Cons

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Pros

Once you've networked with the right people it becomes all success and excellence. Through my years of experience with Allied Universal, I was fortunate enough to work with the right accommodations and site placements. I even had a chance to demonstrate supervisor status that I never did before in private security. I think Allied Universal gives chances to anyone eager enough to try gainful employment with opportunities to prove it. One quality pro factor that Allied Universal offers is through your journey of work placements at client sites, one client site will eventually become your primary site by choice to stay permanently as a career.

Cons

Career growth is slow because Allied Universal is humongous as both a company and private corporation. Opportunities don't exist often after getting your Guard Card but if you take the opportunities as an opportunistic, you'll do fine and reach the next stages in bottom management.

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