Pros
You'll be highly motivated to quit working as a security officer and find new meaning in your life as someone with value, because Allied sees you as a disposable (and stupid) worker who should be grateful to eat their pay scraps. The people I work with at my level are often good people. So are most site supervisors, but their requests to increase pay, or change uncool site rules are always and instantly shut down by senior allied management.
Cons
Where do I even begin. Allied refused to give pay raises for guards who have to deal with threats in the form of crazy transients on a daily basis. After 3 years of working here my pay increased by 25 cents! Here are some of the cons: - Extremely low wage for a job that requires constant attention, 8 hours of movement, and interacting with crazies and homeless that threaten you while committing crimes. - No lunch breaks - 60 hours of PTO per year. But when you request it, it never shows up on a paycheck, ever! - No reimbursement for over $300 in parking fees REQUIRED to work the site. - Always understaffed because good people understand the mental burden this job brings and lack of financial security with it. No seriously, I've never seen a day where we had full staff in 3 years of working for allied. - will make you drive to lakewood to do some simple b.s. at their office, when it could be handled electronically. - CEO is making millions, while employees have to work 60 hour weeks to survive. - writes you up for using your phone to escape the hell that is sitting in one spot all day when you're not allowed to leave a stationary post. - got transferred sites for verbally defending myself against an abusive Amazon employee at wbu-11 pearl Street Boulder site. Stay away from the female ginger grinch there. Also goodbye my good wbu-11 coworker friends.. - there isn't even an HR number on the site because they KNOW there would be too many complaints, instead you have to email HR and well, you'll wait weeks to get a response. - health insurance with the company will cost you $90 a week taken from your paycheck, and it doesn't cover anything. - if you raise complaints like I'm doing now they threaten you (I'm sure this post will soon let me follow up on that point)