What is overtime like at Allied Universal?

You get to work at a variety of places, and the daily routine is easy to memorize

Management is woefully incompetent, if not outright criminal. They alternate between leaving employees still technically employed but without any work for months on end [a form of wrongful termination in most states] due to over hiring and scammy attempts at coercing employees into illegally working unpaid overtime due to their own scheduling mistakes.

Simple & Effective Working Environment Opportunities to pick up shifts from high turnover or call offs

Company is incentivized to avoid paying out overtime. Given the high turnover rate of low level security the company created "flex officers" in which officers of various work sites can cover a gap for only one shift and cycle out multiple officers to cover the shift for the week until they can shove someone else in the hole and avoid having a sole officer reap the benefits of overtime; The system will avoid selecting you for a flex shift if your already in the system for "40 hours" that week. The website job training is repetitive and not indicative of the actual site operations. Leadership has drama and has changed hands multiple times since hiring date. Do not bring unwanted attention to yourself as a negative environment leads to gossip and lost opportunities (results may vary) For example leadership assumed I was going to resign a couple months ago without directly asking me & already trained my replacement without telling me. Thanks to gossip I lost the chance of moving to a full time shift at the site that I was slotted for; Instead it was given to someone else. When I brought this to leadership's attention I was the one to blame as I didn't "let them know" about me not quitting. As if that was a decision I made to spread that idea. Ridiculous. On top of that, given the high turnover rate of officers, the company often shoves random folks into a uniform, with some not even showing up to work or quitting within a couple days. Some incidents also occurred with "officers" that were not behaving professionally, putting a poor reputation with the client and the rest of the officers that remain. This boiled into a "rewards" program from the client dictating that any employee that found anything wrong with an officer will be rewarded with a $100 gift card. Obviously judgement will get diluted when money gets involved, causing even more resentment between the client and the company. All of these incidents have potentially caused the contract not to be renewed, costing the company million of dollars due to incompetence. Finally the most senior of all the officers on site was caught watching XXX rated content on his phone and proceeded to blame it on an "email he was trying to delete". What more can be said? As long as you commit to your responsibilities security can help you make ends meet, but again, results may vary.

great flexible hours and overtime pay

no cons at all. very positive workplace

Fellow team members were competent and willing to give 100%

Wickedly incompetent management. I'm talking ignored calls and emails, lack of replies from their central management office until BoLI was involved, constant paycheck "mistakes" wherein the bosses would "forget" to add peoples overtime hours, often several times in as many months.

Plenty of overtime but poor work life balance.

Disconnect from management to on duty officers

Consistent work, never without a shift

non-flexible hours, stuck until relief arrives, no overtime

Benefits, flexible schedules, holiday pay and overtime

I was set up with a interview recently and interviewer was a No-Call. Email seems to be unreachable. This is the 4th time. Rude staff during initial orientation. Failure to pay OT/Holiday wages in professional timely manner. Poor interpersonal communicational skills between staff and management. Incompetent managing staff. Office is completely out of sync most times.

You get paid vacation, holiday pay and overtime pay.

You work with incompetent leaders or coworkers, if you want to work nights they keep you on dayshift.

Maybe a workable schedule, some guards are easy going, connections to other jobs at the post, weekly pay.

Extremely cheap company, managers are clueless and uneducated, CEO takes all the money from your post, dangerous job at times and under appreciated for what we do, cheap cheap cheap cheap. Contract pays Allied $50-$100 hourly then allied pays guard 15 hourly. Clients pay a lot to have us allied sucks it all away and doesn't care about you. Allied has billions of dollars but will cry when you work overtime and won't pay livable wages.

Simple work- life balance, overtime is plentiful.

Constant overtime pay and vacation pay issues, and staffing is horrible