Helene
Elgin,#2UPDATE EX-employee responds
Fri, May 11, 2007
Welcome to the backstabbing, highly political world of private contract security where you had better stay only long enough to work your way through school and NOT make a career out of it! And now I find that ALLIED SECURITY is being merged AGAIN! Don't think that you and your security crew will be at that post much longer, dude. The warning signs are all there. START LOOKING FOR ANOTHER JOB. NOW! Everybody is set to go, one way or the other. If Allied loses that account you will NOT be asked to stay with the new company-- based on my experience with Allied. The new security company will bring in its own people and you, my friend, will be out on the street looking for work because Allied will NOT have a place to keep you. (If a client is getting ready to dump your security company, you won't be hiring anybody else on.) When I worked for Allied and posts went down --usually due to internal intrigue, security person malfeasance APPARENTLY deliberately tolerated to faciliate another security company's takeover --- nothing that the ordinary security personnel did --certain security persons who are not "connected" will find themselves OUT of work, not recommended for rehire with Allied (because they probably really won't have anyplace else to put you!) and having to go to another company and on and on and on. THESE PEOPLE WILL TRY TO RUIN YOUR LIFE AND BLACKBALL YOU PERMANENTLY FROM EVERY PROFESSION THEY CAN THINK OF AND LIE ABOUT YOU BECAUSE THEY THINK IT IS FUN! I HAVE ONLY KNOWN ONE RETIRED MILITARY GUY WHO HAD THE GUTS AND THE MONEY TO RETAIN AN ATTORNEY AND HE WON BIG WHEN HE SUED ONE OF THESE SECURITY COMPANIES! NOBODY SEEMS TO WANTS TO WORK FOR SECURITY COMPANIES ANYMORE! AND I DO MEAN NOBODY! After the Hell that you are going through, CAN YOU BLAME THEM? If we had had the Internet and Rip-Off Report back when I was looking for a job, I WOULD NOT HAVE WORKED FOR PRIVATE SECURITY CONTRACTING COMPANIES! THERE WOULD BE NO PIMPS IF THERE WERE NO PEOPLE WILLING TO SELL THEMSELVES ON THE CORNER! Not only do you have to worry about co-workers on your security post assignments backstabbing you and trying to make you look bad so they can get you fired and take the overtime pay but you have to worry about YOUR OWN SECURITY COMPANY EMPLOYER doing bad things to you. ( Read about other contract private security companies in The Rip Off Report!) Security companies make money from the clients AND their already underinsured, underpaid flunkey employees. GET OUT NOW! Go to work for the Texas Department of Crimina Justice at the prison system! You will get to wear uniforms there, get benefits and have a lot better life than in PRIVATE CONTRACT SECURITY! IF that's what you want to do. Go be a REAL cop or a deputy sheriff or constable! Go get a Level IV Bodyguard training certificate from the State and work with celebrities if you like. Go be a bouncer for clubs. GO JOIN THE MILITARY IF YOU WANT TO WEAR A UNIFORM! If you can survive the partisan politics and not get killed, you might retire after 15-20 years with pay and benefits. GO IN-HOUSE IF YOU WANT TO DO PRIVATE SECURITY AND WORK FOR THE CLIENT DIRECTLY INSTEAD OF THROUGH A MIDDLEMAN LIKE A PRIVATE SECURITY COMPANY! DO NOT WASTE ANOTHER MINUTE OF YOUR LIFE IN PRIVATE SECURITY OR YOU WILL SO LIVE TO REGRET IT! Because you will spend the best and most productive years or your life living from paycheck to paycheck and jumping from sorry security company to sorry security company with no health insurance or retirement or ANYTHING to show for it! ( Don't even think about investing in one of their 401K plans because you won't be around long enough and they will figure out a way to scam you out of it!) When I got hurt on the job through no fault on my own, there was NOBODY there for me. If it hasn't been for a State program, I would have been HOMELESS! GET OUT NOW! THERE IS NO FUTURE IN PRIVATE SECURITY FOR ANYBODY EXCEPT A FEW PEOPLE AT THE TOP AND THE STOCKHOLDERS! EVERYBODY ELSE IS DISPOSABLE CANNON FODDER! RUN, DON'T WALK AND DON'T LOOK BACK! BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!