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Global K9 Protection Group

The company preaches family when in training but once you leave, you aren’t family at all. You’re over worked and go against all regulations. HQ only cares about profits and not about their employees that are in the field making the money for them. They continuously go out getting more and more contracts when there aren’t enough handlers to cover the shifts, therefore forcing handlers to become overworked and burnt out. Handlers are forced to commute long distances to work and stay in their personal vehicles for hours waiting for their next shifts and aren’t compensated for it. Handlers work 12-16 hours but are only paid for half of that. Management at higher and lower levels do not care about their employees, it’s all about just working and covering shifts. If you aren’t “senior” or in their clique you’re put on the worst and busiest shifts. There are people in management that shouldn’t be there. If you contact HR do not expect them to respond, address, or take care of the issue. Pay is the same across the company so handlers that do 5x the work in a location than handlers in another location get paid the same and even when their cost of living is 3-4x higher. Overall the company does not care about their employees, just about pocketing money for theirselves. Very poorly managed and ran and very money hungry and out of touch with what it means to run a company in different states across the country.

I’d like to start off with this… I am not a disgruntled employee. My review is without bias and based off of my personal experiences. 

This company is NOT what they make themselves out to be. They constantly make empty promises, lack communication, and refuse to provide the help teams may need. Handlers are constantly receiving their schedules last minute because site leads want to take their time instead of being a good leader and giving employees the ability to plan their lives around work. Site leads constantly cater to the client leaving working conditions worse for the employees and K9’s. If you speak up or speak out against any issues that you’re facing or have witnessed, standby because you’re likely the one that will be disciplined for it. This company only cares about one thing.. Money.. They don’t care about work/life balance. They’re constantly raising the price on their K9 handler school without providing a quality education or teaching you anything valuable about the industry. First company I have ever worked for where you have to “pay to play” 

I cannot in good faith recommend anybody working for this company. You’re K9 is the best part about the job and they WILL use that relationship against you. Work for this company at your own risk.

In pains me to say I’d rather work fast food than work for Global again, when things are good they are great but when your not kissing there you know what you are their worst enemy, the instructors there are awesome people and I still stay in touch with them today but it’s pretty bad when they will even tell you the company sucks the owner is very nice but very disconnected they claim they will give you everything you need to be a handler but in some cases that just is not true if someone has k9 experience already you will notice the flaws early if not you will think it’s a great company, IT IS NOT!  The upper management has a money scheme going that no one will admit get you in the class get your money then fire you. The dogs there are not up to standards they will barely pass certs and after you get out of class if you don’t keep up on your training and make the dogs better you will eventually fail an evaluation. DONT FALL FOR THE TRICKS FIND SOMEWHERE ELSE TO WORK

This is not a company you want to work for. Their pay might sound good and the fact that they’ll hire anyone off the street might sound good but the company treats its handlers horribly. No one at headquarters communicates and that causes things to constantly go wrong in the field at the expense of the handlers. You, as handlers, are given mediocre training at headquarters and then pushed into the field without a backward glance. No support, poorly trained dogs (and handlers), and poorly run sites. Please consider another company.

There is great leadership at the airport level but once it gets to headquarters it's absolutely terrible.  The company preaches having a family atmosphere but they don't care about their employees only profit margins.  They'll gladly throw you under the bus and put all the blame on you instead of owning up to their own mistakes.   They take on more clients then they can handle and because of this the handlers are overworked.  These positive reviews are obviously Globals way of improving their rating because it does not represent how the handlers in the field actually feel.

I've worked at Global K9 protection group since 2018. Although sometimes have been tough, for the most part this is a very supportive company. More so than any other job I've had in the past. I feel that I can go to my supervisor and their supervisor and ask questions and not be shunned or not be looked down upon. I'm met with respect and I am offered a leadership development program in this company that I have never had anywhere else. I believe in what we do and would recommend working for this company.

I had fun working here. I wish I would’ve done more research because the program is not worth $8,000 but overall not a bad job to kickstart your career in K9 if you have no prior experience. Just be sure this is the career you want. Your direct site lead will be great and coworkers are awesome but upper management is incompetent and childish at times as they take everything personal and don’t understand this is a business transaction for your time. 

Being a “Commercial handler” is pretty much a joke at Global K9. Barely any training (once or twice a year if lucky), the company dogs are subpar. Most of the dogs don’t know odor, handlers don’t know their dogs. The company will have your back but only by stabbing it. It’s a real shame what the K9 industry has turned into. Hopefully someone higher up sees this review and understands how bad it’s getting. There is time to fix it before it’s too late. 

What is the best part of working at the company?
Employees are under paid. Higher ups lookout for themselves not employees.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Maintaining the high standards set for by TSA. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Great work environment. Awesome to be partnered with a dog.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
12 hour shift screening cargo.

Not a good company to work for at all. There was absolutely no work life balance. You could slave for weeks, but when you need a day off for one of your childs birthdays, you become unreliable whenever you dont come in on your planned and scheduled day off.

There are no benefits as they like to hire for parttime. 

No job security whatsoever.

the management was trash. Very manipulating. Everyone is out for themselves.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Cargo handler 45 salaries reported	$30.46 per hour
Canine handler 8 salaries reported	$34.35 per hour
Manager 3 salaries reported	$67,482 per year
Handler 5 salaries reported	$31.35 per hour
Detective 3 salaries reported	$35.00 per hour

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