1st Security Preparation And Placement Broken promises and excessive tuition Ripoff New York New York
This organization is a Security school and Security company. It advises on Craig's List as an unnamed employer that pays unexperienced and experienced security guards starting at $12 at schools, office buildings and hospitals. It said that call this number. I call that particular number and left a message.
One day later she called me back and said the same thing on Craig's List. She told me to come to 248 West 35th Street, 4th Fl and to bring $80 as a deposit and to be interview ready. I came there and talk to the Director of Human, Lt. Crawford. He said this was a Security school and a job placement center. I need a 16 hour class and fireguard preparation. He said that I would need an additional $169. Before I paid it I asked if this money would pay for the fingerprints. In order to become a Security Guard you need to pay New York State $135. I will pay it and get it done in one shot.
After I finished the class, I went to Lt. Crawford to get fingerprinted. I got fingerprint them he said I need to pay the State $135. I said that I thought that the $169 was for the Fireguard and for the State. He said that the 3 hour Fireguard class cost $169. I learned that other security schools charges only $25 to $40. The material comes directly from the FDNY website. To actually take the NYFD Fireguard exam cost only $25.
This company placed me at security firm that does not pay anywhere close what it promised on it Craig's List. This company is a ripoff because of its broken promises and its excessive tuition.
Randy
Bronx, New York
U.S.A.
1 Updates & Rebuttals
Helene
Elgin,Illinois,
U.S.A.
By filing with the Rip Off Report, other will know and learn...hopefully!
#2Consumer Suggestion
Fri, December 29, 2006
You can file a complaint on them to the state licensing board. But I wouldn't expect it to go very far.
These guys sound slick!
Filing a complaint with the Rip Off Report is an excellent start though so that others will know that what they might be led to EXPECT will NOT necessarily be what REALLY happens with these people!
You should have ASKED someone with ACTUAL private security JOB experience about these people-- or -- MORE IMPORTANTLY, what would be required to get a REAL security job.
OUR MAIN JOB IS TO OBSERVE AND REPORT!
And to NOT get killed for the lousy wages that they pay us.
If you want good money in prvate security, you have to go with the mercenaries like Dyn Corp in Iraq and Afghaistan and take the big risks for the big money!
I learned the hard way that these cheap security contractors will NOT be there when you get hurt and need them!
YOU HAVE TO LOOK OUT FOR NUMBER ONE!
ESPECIALLY YOUR PAY AND YOUR MONEY!
CRAIG'S LIST IS JUST AN INTERNET BULLETIN BOARD. You read it and you take your chance that the posting is true and factual but YOU SHOULD BEWARE OF ANYTHING ON THE INTERNET THAT WANTS YOUR MONEY.
The application fee of $80 would have activated my possible "FRAUD" alarm. Deposit? For what? refundable?
I WOULD HAVE PAID THEM NOTHING
You had to PAY MONEY to take a FIRE WATCH class?
File a complaint with the state agency that licenses private security officers in your state and don't believe about 3/4 of the stuff you see advertised FOR MONEY on the Internet!
When you see an advertisement for a security company that promises that they will pay up to $15 an hour it does NOT mean that ANYBODY will make the $15 an hour --it just means they COULD but in the meantime,. they have a post that you can work for $5.15 an hour until the better paying post comes open. They probably don't have any post that pays $15 an hour (but they COULD GET ONE SOMEDAY, get it?) and they are counting on you NOT being around long enough to ask about it. If you DO manage to get a raise, it is the beginning of the end and they will figure out a reason to FIRE you. Why should they give you $5.50 an hour when they can get a guy off the street for $5.15 an hour?
So much I could tell you about private security companies and so little time or space.
I don't think they necessarily cheated you any more than one of these tutor places that teaches people how to pass the Graduate Record Exam cheats their clients.
They will probably claim that you paid them for tutoring to pass the NY security officer exam. And THAT IS legal.
They say they are a PREPARATION place after all...
You just didn't get what you thought you were going to get!
You apply DIRECT to security companies. IN PERSON. It doesn't cost anything. If it does, don't walk out of there but RUN!
I am sorry that they did this to you.
I sure hope other people will look these folks up before they consider attending " classes " there.