Great hours and support, but low pay and raises - Security Guard Gemstar Security Employee Review

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- Sites are relatively easy, alarm response, concierge, gatehouse work. Very easy security work. - People are usually nice, you sometimes get snakes and people who hate you. But the people are usually good and chill, trying to get by. - It's a easy way to get experience in security. - Sites are close to you if you live in GTA or Aurora, Vaughan, King City. Also some northern work. -They do alarm response for the schools in Peel, always looking for guys and the shift work is easy. You will do 8 schools or so in a shift in 8 hours, very easy money alot of driving though (only bad if you suck or hate driving). - Dave the operations manager is a great guy he will always help you out, also Chris in supervising and GT. - Handcuff and baton training twice (?) a year for people past probation

- They have a history of messing up pay cheques. - They have trouble dealing with complaints on guards, usually ignore because if they ice the guy you are having a problem about they have to find a replacement. Better to switch sites. - HR and scheduling administers are relatively new and have no experience in the security industry. - No room for growth, you can be a mobile supervisor or Alarm response and you will still make 12$ Canadian. - They will always call you trying to fill sites, the scheduling manager will wait to the last minute to ask for help. - You won't make over time they schedule so you work under over time (88 hrs every 2 weeks) - Probation is 6 months rather than 3. - No union. - Generally corporate is unorganized.