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Metro One LPSG

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Metro One LPSG reviews

3.0

54% would recommend to a friend

(288 total reviews)

Vince Carrabba

44% approve of CEO

41% positive business outlook

Metro One LPSG has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 288 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Metro One LPSG employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Management & Consulting industry (3.7 stars).

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288 reviews
1.0
Oct 21, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

I will start off by saying: very little. This is a job and that's where it ends. If you are homeless or bordering poverty this job will put a little money in your pocket. The interview process is a joke which at first glance probably sounds great to someone in desperate need of a job but bear in mind your fellow employees whom you often rely upon skate through as well.

Cons

Where to begin? Starting from the top, the people in Staten Island who think they are running a respectable company have undoubtedly brainwashed themselves into believing that the prevailing corporate culture (along with its' many ills) in America is the way to go. They are so disconnected from reality it's unbelievable. I would go so far as to say they are likely beyond salvage both as managerial material and human beings in general. Moving on, the regional managers are a joke. Most of them are not management material. They are 20+ year guards who simply promoted their way up because they had been there the longest behind whatever manager above them who likely quit to avoid drowning in the sea of ineptitude. It is unlikely you will ever meet your regional manager and if you do it will be so he/she can punish you for his/her failings such as losing another site under him/her (which you have no involvement in or control over) which can again be attributed to his/her lack of real experience and also his/her lack of presence in the operation. However, in keeping with fairness, the regional managers job is complicated by the fact that Corporate won't let them pay a decent wage or reward hard workers who keep sites running. Their business model is ~10 people/site at 32 hours to fall under the PART TIME flag (regardless of what you were hired for) so that not only is there no overtime but when one of the "gifted underachievers" they hire doesn't show up they have a large pool of people to goad into covering the shift. It's generally acceptable to them to have an entirely new group of 10 every 2 months or so. Congratulations, Jr. Company, just eeking your way through the business world. This is a very condensed relay of an experience analyzing key points, don't take my word for it. If you fell upon this review while researching employment go ahead and give it a shot. In closing, the company ills are plain to anyone involved at the site level but almost paradoxical to management. Metro One is a sinking ship, don't forget your life jacket.

1.0
Aug 25, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Easy Job for most part. My job is to simply check bills at Home Depot. People I work with are very nice.

Cons

Where do I start? Let's start with the pay. The pay is very very low for the title you have as a "security guard". Minimum wage start. Don't expect any raises unless you've been with the company for 3 years (I have not). Next, the management. Wow, I can't even describe fully how unorganized and unprofessional the management is. When it comes to scheduling, your lucky if you go the week without them calling you at least 6 times A DAY! They constantly call. If they need someone to work at 6am, they'll call you at 4:50am, if you don't answer, they'll call 4 more times at least and then try your house phone. Sometimes they schedule too many people for a post. That's where favoritism plays out. If they like you, they'll let you stay and get payed, if they don't, they'll tell you to just go home. And of course, if they mess up, ITS YOUR FAULT! If they mess up the scheduling (which happens extremely frequently) they'll blame it on you. Once they scheduled me on a day I was off, they called me an hour and a half AFTER I was supposed to be there and told me that I wasn't at my post. I simply replied that I wasn't scheduled for that day, nor was I at all notified that they might need me to work that day. They just put my name in there and never once mentioned it. I then speak to the boss who screamed at me and then transferred me to another employee who heard me out and "understood". After that, didn't hear from them in about 3 weeks. Then I call and finally get back on schedule. This is what you'll deal with if you take this job. Another thing, good luck calling out. A very close friend of mine past away and the wake arrangements were made only for a single day, in which I was working, so I called out and explained my situation. They reply "well its not a close family member so we need you to work.". WHAT? I blew my top. Your telling me I can't pay my respects to my close friend who died because I need to "stand guard" at a door in a Home Depot?? Are you serious?? This is what you'll deal with if you take this job. BEWARE

1.0
Aug 16, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Steady income, most of the truck drivers that I interact with on a daily basis are nice and friendly. Good job for those who just got there security license

Cons

The pay sucks. Management is horrible and they treat there "employees" like carp. No life and work balance they will work you to death. Home depot sees how we get treated and so they want to get rid of Metro-One and just hire us to work directly for them. You get no benefits and you work with a lot of two face people and if somebody submits a complaint to the company and it happened on one of the days that you worked they'll just tell you that there's a investigation going on but won't tell you why until it's over and they won't tell you there's a investigation going on until you show up for work and management will have one of your co-workers tell you to go home instead of them which is not your co-workers job to do

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