Abussive Employer - Security Professional Allied Universal Employee Review

1.0
Jul 14, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

They will pay you, relatively low volume of work depending on patrol or post.

Cons

The company will lie to and abuse you. They will will work you 60+ hours a week and threaten to fire you if you complain. Management will engage in quid pro quo relations, turn a blind eye to sexual harassment, theft, drug use, compromising site security and officer safety. Pretty much anything goes so long as they meet the bare minimum requirements for the contract. Employees will tamper with signed logs, show up late, do whatever they want and there will be no consequences. They routinely tell you "you have no guarantee to anything and will stand whatever post whenever for however long they tell you, and it will change without notice", they discourage you from seeking employment elsewhere and it really just goes on and on. Suggesting that they are breaking the law will get them to threaten to fire you, writing HR does nothing as they just forward the complaint to the contract account manager seeking to silence the complainer rather than fix the problem. I've seen it happen three times and they were all fired. They tell you you can't email HR (not that it does any good), to lie to law enforcement, really I cannot stress enough how awful working for this company is. Honestly, this has been the single most demeaning and embarrassing experience of my life. I'm looking for work elsewhere, but for the love of god do not work for this abusive dishonest company. This companies operations go beyond unethical and immoral and are in many cases explicitly criminal.

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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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