Helene
Elgin,#2Consumer Comment
Mon, July 07, 2008
The fact that you have apparently been with these rip-off artists without a raise since 2000 says a lot for your integrity and not theirs. I used to work for these people and I am surprised that they havent' figured out a reason to fire you so they could hire someone else to work cheaper and then pocket the change. You must be a young white male? A military retiree? You should have read about them in the Rip Off Report before going to work for the cheap scumbag outfit. THEY DO NOT GIVE A d**n ABOUT YOU OR YOUR CONCERNS! YOU ARE JUST AN EXPENSE TO THEM. A USEFUL TOOL AND A COMMODITY.PERIOD. If the contract at the hospital is lost, your job will be gone and YOU will be blamed. You can bet they have NOT kept the price they are charging the hospital the same like your wages. They probably have raised it a bunch BUT are paying you guys the same thing as when you started. If you agitate for a raise, they will just fire you, get some idiot in there and just keep on going business as usual only YOU wil be out of a job, blackballed with job references from the depths of hell and they will make it so that you not only will never work again but you will not be able to get an apartment, buy a car, or any of the innumereable ways they have to F*** you up! And they will ENJOY doing it. They do NOT appreciate your work. They do NOT give a d**n about you or your personal welfare. YOU are an expendible, interchangeable body in a cheap polyesther uniform. And with this bad economy, a steady paycheck coming in beats having NO paycheck at all. TAKE IT FROM ME! I KNOW WHAT KIND OF HELL THESE PEOPLE CAN BRING DOWN ON YOU BECAUSE THEY DID IT TO ME! And it is getting harder and harder to get ANY kind of job... IF you want to get out, make SURE you have another job to go to that will give you a steady paycheck and whatever you do, DO NOT EXPRESS YOUR JOB DISSATISFACTION TO ANYONE AT YOUR JOB SITE and I do mean NOBODY! The other guards you think may be your friends will backstab you in a heartbeat bevause of a few minutes overtime until your replacement can be found. You sound like you would be better off working for the police or sheriff's department than a stupid, minimum wage, deadend, nowhere security job. If I were you, I would seriously consider it. All private security guard contracting companies are the SAME -- no benefits, no retirement except social security and they are trying to fgure out now how to get out of paying that! It's like being pimped out on the street corners and after all of those years of constant abuse, what do you end up with? I am having to FIGHT for my social security disability benefits --after I was hurt saving lives on a sorry PRIVATE SECURITY CONTRACTING JOB and I got nothing for it...they didn't even have the decency to take me to the ER like OSHA mandates supervisors to do. But try getting an answering machine to take you anywhere and that was the only way to communicate with "the office" even though they had high-risk posts and should have had a guy in the field.THEY WENT BANKRUPT! One of the owners of that company fled to Mississippi apparently to ditch the creditors but a lawsuit brough her back and she is presently an operations manager for another cheap security company back in Austin,Texas. I thought about sueing her but she will get hers sooner or later... And it will NOT be from me. If you ever leave Security Hell, you will probably be OUT for good. Do not rely on them for a reference and try to find a cover story for the wasted years being treated like a cotton patch peon. It's your choice.