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The company does not care about you. They will choose their client over you. They rather lose you than their client. American Security does not have your back what so ever. You are like their pawn, what ever their client say then they go with it. This is a good part time contractor job but will not be good for primary income. You can lose all of your raise you earned through out years of employment when American Security lose your account to a different contractor security company. These are the things that they will not tell you. No place for advancement. Managers does not know roles and duties at your post and lacks answers when you ask questions. All the managers at corprate has pot lucks and celebrate during holidays while security officers works hard at their posts uninvited. Security Officer position is not a value to them because they know that the position can easily be replaced. Its all about business to them and you as a security officer does not matter to them and you are not considered a great asset to them. They will easily use you if you do not know your employee rights and take advantage of you. Read your union contract book. There are no company picnic during the summer and no employee appreciation day when they know that majority of their employees are hard workers and are dedicated. They do not go by their company rules. For example, each security officer is required to get a well rest and atleast 8 hours before they start their shift so the security officer can be at 100 percent the next day for work. Security officers who barely get any sleep and are doing double shifts still get yelled at and get threaten of getting written up when they clearly know that they over worked their officers and violated their own company rules. They expect you to follow company rules while they don't.

The job itself is fairly easy and laid back depending on what site or job role you end up getting. Lots of downtime during the shift. If you end up working at a Dean Clinic be prepared to play *a lot* of kiss butt to the staff there or they'll purposely have you removed and leaving you with no recourse to explain or defend yourself. Pay is a joke unless you come to this job with law enforcement or military experience. It starts out and stays at 12 dollars an hour, (more if you have previous LEO or Military exp) with a very convoluted pay rate change depending where you get posted, lots of former and current employees complain about not getting paid correctly. You will have to pay for your security guard license/DAAT  and yearly renewals out of your paycheck, if you end up as a level 3 guard you will have to firearm qualify 4 times a year and have to provide your own approved gun, holster and bullet proof vest which is extremely cost prohibitive unless you already own them. During qualifications you will have to provide your own bullets. All in all, it's a job and management are fairly OK people. If you are a college student looking for a flexible job that affords time to study and work at the same time this job is *absolutely* for you. If you are looking for a career maybe work this short time as a resume builder on the way to work for an actual law enforcement agency. I've definitely had much worse jobs.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Company culture. ...
Great expectations. ...
Goal-oriented leadership. ...
Fair pay. ...
Quality benefits. ...
Open-door policy. ...
Room to grow. Nobody loves hitting a glass ceiling. ...
Challenging work. Finding work that interests and challenges you is an important part of loving your job.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The most stressful part , when you were working under pressure for a 12 hours shift during the holiday and your reliever call off.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
My ideal work environment is one where I have the opportunity to support a team with the services and abilities that meet the needs of the group with little supervision. I also enjoy a collaborative environment that allows for flexibility in how we get our work done.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
There is no such thing for a typical day because every day is a routine, but I usually start with my priority task for the day like when I first started I check the calendar to verify the events that had been scheduled for the day . I check the computer to see if I have any warnings from the residents, and after that focus on the daily routine.

My work day started clocking in and then find out the previous shift log and anything that my role over to my shift.
After the brief then I will sea where I will be posted in the 40floor tower and adjacent shopping mall. May be the dispatch center or front desk or may be roving the shopping, the tower  or the parking lot.
Most of my coworkers where Veterans or ex-soldier, or in law enforcement school at least had aspirations to study criminal justice like me.
The management were very involved with our day to day tasks and we kept them informed verbally and also documented all activities well.
The hardest part of the job was dealing with protesters if there are any such as occupy Minneapolis and others, the sheer number was overwhelming at times but we handled it professionally.
The job gave me practice with my responsibilities and the parts of the scope of job because I want to become a police officer.

Management is disorganized and uncaring. Lack of communication between guards and managers. Stay away from Mobile Patrol in St. Paul. Pay is low for work done. While contract security is what you make of it, the managers don't do the bare minimum they needed to do in giving me or other guards information we needed to do our jobs and dinged us for relatively minor mistakes without giving good, intelligent employees time to learn. There are people here who injured or killed people by messing up as public sworn cops and still have their jobs despite messing up severely here too (Do your homework and ask people you know who work here what it's like first). Get your education and training and find somewhere better to work. Typical day at work includes doing patrols of the building(s) I was assigned to with a vehicle or on foot, checking doors and windows for break ins, making ID cards, escorting contractors and visitors, getting the briefing about what happened the previous shift, writing reports, and reporting safety hazards or emergencies.

The vacation policy is written in such a way that ANYONE who is not hired EXACTLY on January 1st loses seniority/works time that will not count towards vacation...
Let me explain... on January 1st of each year, the system counts how many years have been COMPLETED (NOT including months). So, if you are hired on December 31st and you work 1 year and 1 day, then you only "lose" a day (which is fine)... BUT, if you are hired on January 2nd and you work 364 days (up to Jan 1st the next year) the system shows that you have not "completed" a full year (so you essentially LOSE those 364 days).
Unfortunately for me, I was hired in the beginning of February, so I lost out on 11 months (which for my site amounts to 2 weeks of vacation pay). They refused to pay it, so I quit.

My recommendation is to get hired as close as possible to January 1st as you can, WITHOUT starting after the 1st. So apply in November or December so you start BEFORE the 1st. Or... JUST APPLY FOR A DIFFERENT SECURITY COMPANY AND STAY FAR AWAY FROM AMERICAN SECURITY!!!

I worked for American Security for a coupleish years, and jumped around a few positions. The pros of the jobs are that management usually works with you on things, especially if you actually do your job (many employees don't). They are usually pretty flexible with schedules too, unless you're in one of the positions that requires you to be on-call, then they work you to death. However, even with this you get to go to a lot of cool places, meet lots of people, and learn things about a lot of other industries that you work with. The biggest negatives are advancement and pay in the on-call positions. Higher-ups constantly told me that they wanted me in management but would never promote me. I ended up leaving for a different job because they took too long. Pay is competitive in the industry but some accounts require far more work than others, even though they pay the same. So, it becomes a roll of the dice on whether you're more fairly compensated for your work or not

Job should be titled, Glorified Walmart Greeter. That is what you are. The pay is low, the leadership lies, and the job is boring. You will get hired on the spot because everyone leaves and they are desperate for anyone and anything. Because of this, they get the worst people who call out all the time. I heard from others that they call you at midnight when they know you have another engagement to come in and cover. You are going to sweat in the summer and freeze in the winter. You work at Menards where the people don't care. 90% of the job is playing on your phone or reading a book to pass the time. Check people in and tell them where to go. That's the job. They won't tell you this during hire. Ad is super misleading. It's great for an 18 yr old just starting out or a secondary job you don't care for because you don't have to do anything to get paid otherwise stay as far away from the Omaha station as possible.

The job is easy going and Quick to pick up, but the management or lack thereof  is out the window at the Beloit Locations, supervisors sleeping with employees and showing favoritism, They never paid me out for my Referral bonus. $600 And almost every paycheck was short one way or another, you're expected to show up if called or else you're a bad Worker, You can't call District management or HR at all for anything or else you get in trouble and they pretty much laugh in your face in terms of getting it done. They'll say what you want to hear and At the end of it all you'll get the short end of the stick. If you are located anywhere other than beloit Wisconsin , this company is probably incredible to work for. Unfortunately the Beloit location (abc supply co) is garbage. 

American Security and Investigations, LLC uses a 3rd party company  (known as Merchants Information Systems) to provide testing to applicants. Most people PASS the assessment but the company sends a failure notice to you. I looked over the research methodology and as long as your honest, you SHOULD pass. The reason you would ever get a failure notice by American Security and Investigations, LLC is to give plausible deniability in court to justify not hiring applicants for unlawful reasons (i.e gender, minority-status, foreign born etc...). If you receive such a notice, contact the nearest office to report it immediately. If the company is reading this, you need to STOP using this assessment asap to avoid creating further liability.

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