Do not trust this company - Security Officer/Security Guard Allied Universal Employee Review

1.0
14 Mar 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

willing to work with you on time off, as long as you find coverage. base salary is ok for the area. but at times McDonalds was hiring at a higher salary so competitive for the area as there is not much in front royal but not the best either.

Cons

absolutely everything involving corporate. they will lie and change your contract without informing you; the management positions (with a lot of added responsibilities) only pays $1 more than the base salary; the anual inflation raise didint cover the inflation rate in 2022 or 2023, so I ended up Making less in monetary value by the time I left the company from when I started with the company. and anything else you can think of is awful. I left due to managments refusal to control the indoor smoking and the fact that other coworkers where deficating all over the office, Granted he was disabled, but they should be responsable for making sure its cleaned up, not just leave the us (the night shift) with it as there is no one other than security personnel on site by the time we get there, I complained in daily emails and in person for nearly 1.5 years till I quit, Then they refused to pay unemployment. so yeah save yourself the trouble of working for such a misguided company

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We are sorry you had this experience, the situation you described does not reflect the expectations we have of our teams or Allied Universal’s values. We will be sharing this feedback with our management teams in order to improve.

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