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No Better Than a Sweat Shop - Security Officer Alert Protective Services Employee Review

1.0
9 Feb 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Lots of free time to do homework, read, watch TV, etc.

Cons

Pay sucks, No sick time, No paid vacation, No room for advancement, Management are inconsiderate jerks. Here is how time off works... You submit a form 2 weeks in advance with the days you want off written on it. Management then attempts to call other guards and ask if theyre able to work those days. If no one is willing to work those days, you're screwed. This means you'll be missing birthdays, weddings, Christmas, Thanksgiving, etc all for $9.50/hour. It's a joke. For instance (and this is what drove me to quit the next day) I was working at a site called Sandhill Preserve. The gatehouse is very small, and has no source of water besides the bathroom sink and toilet. I worked 12 hour shifts from 7am to 7pm. One day I had my girlfriend bring me by some water to drink and some food for lunch, as you are not permitted to leave. Well as luck would have it, the Owner of the company Jeff Haidet, out for a Sunday morning cruise, drove by in his Black Lexus SUV. He saw my girlfriends card parked in front of the gatehouse and decided to come ask me who it was. I told him she was bringing me some food and water and she had been here for 5 minutes. He found this to be unacceptable and demanded that she leave. There were many MANY other instances of this kind of stuff happening that I just ignored for along time. If you work for this company, expect that kind of behavior from the management. They're awful.

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5.0
30 Jun 2017
Recommend
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Pros

The best company I have worked for security wise. Alot of over time. The Managers are always there for any problems.

Cons

It was bought by Alled Universal.

1.0
26 May 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Nice main office. Training programs were pretty good. Management is always well dressed. There was a decent chance for advancement if you knew your stuff and took some initiative.

Cons

Management won't be straight with their employees. Even if you confront them with an issue, and ask them directly if there is something going on. I marked my employment as current because they never fired me, they took me off a site, started to cross train me at a number of sites, and then just stopped calling. I confronted the management about this for a few weeks and was told they simply did not have any work for me, but would call me when something opened up... That was 8 years ago. The reason I was black balled? A client complained that I was enforcing the policies they had laid out and delayed a visitor entry until cleared by the resident. That was it. Management at Alert is more than willing to throw an employee under the bus if the client balks too much. Even if the employee is in the right and the client is in the wrong, they won't even ask any questions.

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