Security Officer - Anonymous employee Allied Universal Employee Review

2.0
16 Aug 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Workload is easy. Requires very little thinking. Flexible depending on your life situation

Cons

Management is awful. Pay isn't great. Full time employees cannot make use of their "generous benefits package" no paid time off within the 1st year. Uniform allowance is taken out of your pay at a rate of $20 a check. Same goes for your guard license. Pretty anything you need to perform your job, you pay for it. Pretty dumb considering they NEED YOU to perform the job.

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Cons

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