Allied Universal reviews

Your experience here will rest entirely on your direct line of managers. Have managers that have never worked in a uniform in their life but expect officers to leave their children at home alone in the snow in order to show up for their shift? Interview your managers during the interview. The salary is insultingly low for the amount of responsibility. My book of business operated $8mm a year. Increasing profit a week by yearly salary only to be told it's not good enough is extremely bad faith. Bonus structure has diminishing returns and doesn't even compensate for the starting salary should be anyway. Schedule is "8-5" but there was never a day where I was done at 5, EVER. The reality is you are on call 24/7. Calls at 3 am are extremely normal due to the 4 hour call out rule and first shift starts at 7am. Expect calls when all shifts start, 7am, 3pm, 11pm and 4 hours before when all shifts start, 3am, 7pm, 11 am. 100 hour weeks are common. Management has a rule where you must return a superior's phone call within 2 hours. I've received calls at 2 am from managers, when do you sleep? The question to ask on the job is not what you are making here but what are you becoming here. Not many AOP like their answer to that question. Some jobs don't pay enough and cost too much.

This is for my current account (others may vary): MANAGEMENT. Excluding my first. While my immediate shift supervisor is great, management above him sucks. They go through 2nd shift sups like Harry Potter Defense Against the Dark Arts professors. > They ignore requests for simple things (new floor mat, a locker in the isolated gatehouse, filing cabinet instead of plastic wall mounts that are too small) or do the parental 'I'll see what I can do.' > Instead of trying to work with everyone or consolidate information, upper management prefers to send out 'nasty-gram' emails that bomb the entire workforce with useless information. > They are so hands-off that most officers at my location don't bother with issues until you literally can't ignore it anymore (usually because something broke). > Second shift and overnight are practically ignored- if you're not working in a cube next to them they don't care. > No upward growth (stingy policy on new supervisors and all have been hired outside of the account no matter that we have people here on site longer) and you may as well quit instead of trying to transfer accounts.