Low Pay, dead-end job. Stay away - Armored Driver/Guard Loomis Employee Review

1.0
May 15, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

1. A SMALL piece of a bonus that you get every now and then (nothing to write home about) 2. Networking with bank managers, business owners, and other clients who you pick up and deliver to daily. This gives you the possibility to find a better career with a company who appreciates their employees. 3. Some of the other driver/messengers are pretty cool to work with.

Cons

Where do I start?! Low pay, no promotions, no decent benefits. This is a truly dead-end job. You're better off at Walmart. 1. VERY low pay for the type of work you are doing. It doesn't help that this branch is located in a city with a high crime rate. The raises are a slap in the face. 2. Management is out of touch with the rest of the team. They provide no type of leadership or guidance. This is a very figure it out on your own culture. There are a few driver/messengers who will help you with any problems. The managers don't know how to do the job, most of them have never been a driver/messenger or even worked in the vault, so they have no idea what to do if something goes wrong. 3. Favoritism runs rampant here! Management has a habit of making decisions that benefit their favorites rather than whats best for the whole team. Management also makes decisions about other employees and issues punishment based on gossip and hear-say that the favorites tell them. This frustrates the rest of the team and creates an environment with very low morale. 4. No work/life balance. You work 50+ hours a week at times. For some this is not a problem, but for those who have a spouse and kids this can create issues at home. 5. The Equipment is outdated and barely works. The phones/walkies they give you are a piece of crap, so you have to use your own cellphone to place calls to customers and to GPS the location of your stops. The trucks break down regularly; in the summer there's no a/c and in the winter there's no heat. 6. The cameras in the truck are no big deal, but when they're used to spy on employees it's a problem.

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

There are more cons than pros, during my time in loomis milwaukee (branch #5920) everyone in management and leadership seems to get away with unprofessional behavior, it seems as if all they care about is whether or not routes are being finished or if your stealing and they want to catch you. On multiple occasions I have told my former manager at loomis who still is employed there that I had problems with some of the leads and staff, she "addressed" it by throwing my name out and the gave them more ammo to keep behaving such ways, it happened with another former employee as well, let me not get started on the workplace relationships, the Milwaukee branch is called the brothel branch for a reason by their sister branches. When I first started there was a lead fired for having inappropriate relations with the tellers, then the new manager for the CMS vault department that got hired was my former lead from the CIT/AST department, no vault experience, only because he worked alot of hours and had some close relationship with the manager, he also had a history with having relations with the CMS employees and talking about it to everyone in the facility, thus leading to the women quitting their jobs. Hes no longer the CMS manager now but he became the operations manager now, he was also talked to by the branch manager about a picture that was circulating through the vault of his body parts and the branch manager still hired him to be the cms manager knowing it. There is no point in even going to HR with this company as well, they wont do much, they'll "address" things but the problems keep going on. Nobody deserves to be treated the way new hires get treated without knowing whats going to happen once they've been there for a couple of months. Im glad I quit this company because corporate only seems to care about how many contracts they can acquire and which branches make the most money.

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