Security

[Num_1_Dad]

Anybody out there work for or have worked for the Securitas Security Services compnay? Kinda curious if you have or do what kind of "problems" you may experience with the company? I work for them and usually any problems where their "special" people are involved get swept under a rug or sugar-coated to no end. It goes deeper than that but this is enough to maybe get a discussion going.

[Dawei]

Anybody out there work for or have worked for the Securitas Security Services compnay? Kinda curious if you have or do what kind of "problems" you may experience with the company? I work for them and usually any problems where their "special" people are involved get swept under a rug or sugar-coated to no end. It goes deeper than that but this is enough to maybe get a discussion going.

Here is a place where you can discuss the issue with other security professionals: http://forums.securityinfowatch.com/index.php

[Num_1_Dad]

Anybody out there work for or have worked for the Securitas Security Services compnay? Kinda curious if you have or do what kind of "problems" you may experience with the company? I work for them and usually any problems where their "special" people are involved get swept under a rug or sugar-coated to no end. It goes deeper than that but this is enough to maybe get a discussion going.

Here is a place where you can discuss the issue with other security professionals: http://forums.securityinfowatch.com/index.php

Thanks for the link. Took a quick look and I'm not the only one who has problems. Will check it out better later, but am also looking for comments from here as well.

[VTDW]

In my experience, it happens in most any line of work. Education was the worst for me.

[Dawei]

Anybody out there work for or have worked for the Securitas Security Services compnay? Kinda curious if you have or do what kind of "problems" you may experience with the company? I work for them and usually any problems where their "special" people are involved get swept under a rug or sugar-coated to no end. It goes deeper than that but this is enough to maybe get a discussion going.

Could you give me an example? Also by "special" people are you referring to clients, fellow guards, or supervisors?

[Num_1_Dad]

Anybody out there work for or have worked for the Securitas Security Services compnay? Kinda curious if you have or do what kind of "problems" you may experience with the company? I work for them and usually any problems where their "special" people are involved get swept under a rug or sugar-coated to no end. It goes deeper than that but this is enough to maybe get a discussion going.

Could you give me an example? Also by "special" people are you referring to clients, fellow guards, or supervisors?

One case is a supervisor. They have certain patrols that are post orders. One of the supervisors missed a patrol one month, then twice the next month and made the comment that he is going to skip at least one patrol a month. At the time, he was also spending the whole shift playing video games on his personal laptop. When he got busted for the insubordination, he gave a ignorant excuse that he was working on his resume. He got a couple days off with instructions to come up with a plan to "better himself as a supervisor". His plan that was implemented: make the officers on his shift do more work! Didn't do anything to improve himself, just made more work for the officers on his shift. More complaints were filed for retaliation, and they were ignored (went all the way to the vice president of human resources). Next, he was caught falling asleep. The 2 officers that wrote an incident report on it were made to rewrite it and remove the word "sleeping" and replace it with "doze". He received a couple days off and the final report from management showed "perceived" inattentive while a few months prior an officer was written up as being inattentive even though nobody actually witnessed it. The supervisor is well protected and one of the "special" ones who can do no wrong (he has a long list of screwups, but he lies so well and can get the heat placed on others). He also pulled a no call no show, and the on shift supervisor called to find out where he was. Didn't answer his phone, so the on shift supervisor called the manager, who called the supervisor. He answered this time, gave the excuse that he was to tired. When he got back to work (had 3 days off), they had a meeting with him and his excuse was he thought he had the day off. We know better as the schedule had been posted for 9 days, and he had made comments earlier about just not coming in. Management took him for his word, not ours.

Another is a relief officer who only works there for the insurance. The client covers 75% of the premium leaving us with 25%, which for the family plan is approx. $360.00 a month, the client covering approx. $1,100.00. When it comes time to do the schedules, she is asked which day she wants to work (and it's only once every 2 weeks or so), and it is usually day shift plus 2 days of cleaning. The cleaning should take 1.5 hours each day, but she milks it for 3.5 for 7 hours of cleaning (she needs approx. 12 hours per paycheck to cover insurance and union dues.) When it comes time to call someone in, the union contract and securitas policies are usualy violated as she never gets called and someone else who already has 40 hours is called in for overtime. If anybody says anything about it, they get berated and told "she has no daycare". If she comes in late, she is not penalized and if she leaves early they usualy don't change the schedule to reflect it.

None of the females are made to adhere to the grooming policy, while the males are.

Another full time supervisor can't make a decision on her own. Even for a simple call-off, she has to call management to find out what to do. Makes alot of mistakes, panics alot, but yet is highly praised as being top notch. Has an incident a few months ago where we lost power and the back-up system failed, she was running shift, paniced, and the only thing that saved her was on oncoming officer came in early, went on shift and got things rolling, but she was the one who received the high praise, not the officer. She has made more mistakes than any body else combined, yet she is treated like a queen. They also hired her husband, which is a big policy violation, but they did it anyway.

It is hard to relay what all happens there as alot of it is safeguard material (being that we are still deemed nuclear), and what I have put here just scrapes the surface, but hopefully you get the idea that there are a few who are untouchable, while others are set up to fail. Any complaints to the vice president of human resources has proved to be nothing more than a cover-up for management. Had serious workplace violence issues that were swept under the rug, the insubordination that was sugar coated as well as the sleeping supervisor.

[44-40 Willy]

Sounds like the command climate on my last ship before I retired from the Navy.

[Dawei]

While I don't work for Securitas™ I've been around a lot of their Officers to quickly decern I would NEVER want to work for them. The Securitas™ Officers I know all complainl about the SAME, EXACT issues you outlined.

I have worked for Pierce Couty Security Inc®, which is the largest security company in Washington state for the last 12 years. Out side of Pierce County & in the rest of the state, they dba Pacific Coast Security Inc®. See here: http://www.pcswa.com/

[Num_1_Dad]

While I don't work for Securitas™ I've been around a lot of their Officers to quickly decern I would NEVER want to work for them. The Securitas™ Officers I know all complainly about the SAME, EXACT issues you outlined.

I have worked for Pierce Couty Security Inc®, which is the largest security company in Washington state for the last 12 years. Out side of Pierce County & in the rest of the state, they dba Pacific Coast Security Inc®. See here: http://www.pcswa.com/

That's what I figured. The contract for securitas is up this spring and with any luck maybe Wackenhut will finally get the contract. The place I work at is owned by Entergy and we are controlled by the Palisades plant. Palisades uses Wackenhut so a few of us are hoping for the change, though securitas has been at Big Rock for 40 years (the securitas name has underwent several changes, some of which were Borg-Warner, Burns International, Pinkerton and finally securitas, it's all the same). Maybe if we start complaining to Entergy, something will happen

[Joe in Fl]

Securitas also holds a couple unarmed contracts where I work. They are constantly having problems with their employees. I work for a partnership of Wackenhut, Grumman and Kiaser. We work on the Kennedy Space Center/ CCAFS. Our contract will be up on October 1st. All in all Wackenhut has not been a bad company. We will either get Coastal Security (AKAL owned) or a company called SECTEK. Should be interesting. We work on a 10 year contract. This will be my second major contract change. I have worked for some of the SecTek people in the past and they were great people.
Joe