Well Let me first start off by saying that I am 22 years old and living in Sacramento California where i was born and raised. I got Good Grades in High school, graduated 2004 with a 4.0 Gpa. And was Heading For College..in 2005 I had two jobs for awhile, just trying to work my way through college and One of those Jobs I had just Gotten was Securitas Security Services Usa as a Security Gaurd..
I had heard a little bit of Gossip that this company was Basically a Joke and that their constant short cuts and mismanagement were losing Them Business accounts Faster than any other company... Plus it seemed as if they hired a lot of "incompetant" and unreliable gaurds and sent them out to a jobsite with out much training and preparation..
Well The office happened to be really close to my House so I went in and applied anyway... I figured that since I am Smart and Reliable, Polite, Hard Working, and Ambitious, I should start working There and possible be able to Move up Fairly quickly in the Company. Maybe get Raises or Move up in position... I was very very wrong... This company bends rules, laws, labor codes, and contracts all the time. They treat their employees like expendable garbage and act invincible when it comes to improving their violations or even admitting fault at all..
i started out with a positive out look. Went to training, learned everything I was supposed to, passed all the tests, and got sent out to my First Jobsite. It was great for me. People Call off all the time so there was no shortage of overtime. I became their "Yes" Guy... Any extra shift that was needed, I would cover with no problems... My Site Supervisor was happy with my performance and I loved all my Co Workers for the most Part. I almost never called in or got written up but I still failed to get a raise after my first year of employment..
THERE WAS ALWAYS EXTRA HOURS AVAILABLE AT MY JOBSITE, THAT IS PROBABLY WHY I STAYED SO LONG, BUT IT GOT TO BE TOO MUCH... The schedulers always made "scheduling errors" to where 2 gaurds might be told to show up at the same post accidently or no one was told to show up and we would have to "hold over" on our shift to cover it... It was ok the first few times but if you had Court or Jury Duty or College to go to, or picking up your children at a certain time, It would be frustrating to Be "Forced" to stay on Post or Threatened with Termination or Write ups...
Several times Me or the other officers were threatened by a scheduler, my site supervisor, or Branch Management To stay later on a shift, come in early, and other things like that... I just kept my mouth shut and focused on work, I still loved my job at that point... When I hit my two year mark, things were already a lot worse...
My site supervisor was fired sudedenly, "supposedly management found out she was living a secret "gay" lifestyle. "but i don't know for sure myself".. We were left with out a supervisor for a long time and when securitas finally sent someone... They were basically an idiot... Very in experienced and in effective... Securitas actually ended up losing that account right before christmas and all 12-14 gaurds were taken off that site without christmas bonus...
We were all in limbo for awhile with no jobsite. Told to call in everyday until work was available. Around that time, our branch office had informed us of some type of accounting error and that our checks might be a little "off" and that they were working on the problem... Well he hand delivered the checks to all of us and as soon as we all opened them we realized that most of our "2 week full time cheks were only" $47 or $112... We were all shocked and brought out copies of our schedules and time sheets to try and correct this..
I asked our Sacramento Branch Manager, Lennie Evans for help in correcting this problem... (I really Looked up to him because I think he said he was an ex Marine, and Cause he is the Only other Black male that I had seen In a management position in the company so I always showed him respect... Well when I asked when is the soonest i can come to the office, bring in my copies of the schedule, and sit down with accounting to go over this, He got an attitude with me, Basically said "*K You""you are nothing to me"Refused to answer my questions, And left the site... I couldn't believe it... I was always quiet and just did my Job, He never had any complaints about me or from me... I looked up to this guy and This entire company just so happened to Let me Down...
I mean we have had a guy removed from the site for trying to get the current site supervisor fired just so he could be the next supervisor, and he was never terminated just moved... One security gaurd who worked specifically at this private school program called vapac, on the depot park jobsite... He was brought up on charges of sexual harrasment of one of the female grade school girls, which was observed and backed up by the girl's mother, who aparently saw it happen... He denied, got pissed off, and threatened to come back and shoot up all of us other gaurds at the site...
I notified securitas because he was calling the gaurd phone with threats, texting our personal cell phones, and showed up at the gates once or twice... But we were told not to let him back on the property ever!!! Well i told securitas... Cause this guy was seriously wacked, and i feared for my life... Securitas did nothing, and i heard that this guy was only transfered, nothing else...
Almost every paycheck had some mistake or hours missing or ot pay was not counted or double time pay wasnt counted right... The mistakes never seemed to end...
Ever since branch manager lennie evans ignored me when i asked for his help, turned his back and walked out on me, it seemed as if he suddenly didn't like me and treated me accordingly... All of us gaurds were displaced after securitas lost the depot park contract, and so were sent home and told to call in everyday till they found us another site... I had heard that lennie was trash talking me and saying negative things about me but i never confronted him about that. I was intimidated by him and kinda scared...
So i just avoided him anytime that i was in the office... I found work at another site which was kind of a far drive from my house but it was all they had available at the time so i began working that site and i loved it, and my site supervisor loved me, and i liked my co workers. Well a site became available, and securitas tried to remove me from my site and make me commute all the way to dixon ca, my site super supervisor told me that i was welcomed to say where i was, but lennie evans had me removed from the site for refusing to take the dixon site, i was put on supension for a few months...
I did return to work at one more site for a few moths after that but after i had to call in..."one time" after i was having car trouble i was told that if i didn't find a way to come in i was fired... I was angry that i had to work with many many gaurds who left the jobsite when they wern't supposed to, called off several times a week, broke rules and policies several times but were never discharged as a result...
I had been working there for 2 and 12 years just to be discharged after one call off with not that many violations in my records... I believe that this was because lennie evans, for whatever reason didn't like me, and had not liked me ever since the day i asked him about our check mistakes and he got angry at me... I didn't even argue with the dispatcher when he said i was fired because i figured that i could probably find a better job then them anyway...
Well it was hard out there in the unemployment market and when i applied for unemployment, a securitas representative showed up to block it... I have been through so much pain and suffering with this company that i am just trying to foget the experience now...
Andrew
Sacramento, California
U.S.A.
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