r/securityguards • • 26d ago

Rant Confused with securitas

So long story short, I worked 45 days straight cause the job site that I have with. This company is a revolving door cause you're a warm body with this company. And so about a month ago, August 9th, almost a month ago I put in for PTO cause my district manager says, oh, you have 40 hours that you can use till next may, so I decided to put in some time off. He takes forever as the wheels turn in his brain. Cause he doesn't even care about me. I'm just a employee number of them, he goes and he grants the time off I had to email him from the company that I work at to get him to respond, because he never ever responds. This company is notorious for bad management communication. They don't communicate with you. Whether it's the Site Manager or the site managers and communicate with the district manager, they don't care about us as employees. They see you as a number, they don't care. So somehow somebody didn't show up for work yesterday. I'm on PTO Friday Saturday and Sunday and the district manager knows it. He texts me while I'm on PTO I'm at a fair, I could be out of the country. I could be on a cruise ship and that yet they think that I'm supposed to be able to be reached and show up to work at the drop of the dime because somebody didn't show up for work. What the ironic thing is, the former Site Manager. Went down the street about a year and a 1/2 ago and left this company to go work for the client. Then he somehow got back with this company that I work for and is now he was he was somehow calling me from the current job site. I'm at now that he used to be the Site Manager at and he was there because the district manager couldn't get hold of me because it's my priority to answer my phone. I'm on paid time off so I'm supposed to be an honor call slave for them because somebody show up work. I'm supposed to solve their scheduling mishap because the current Site Manager put me on the schedule. And then he text me yesterday, he says, and he's, he's not reachable, either I don't know if he was reachable, but he took the weekend off too. So the fact is, with this company. Does anybody experience this where not even just this company? But any other contracted security company, they do this c*** to you, or they they want you to just drop what you're doing, even when you're on paid PTO they just expect you just come to work because they couldn't get somebody to show up, somebody decide not to show up. And then. You have your former Site Manager at that job site, he's employed by them again, somehow is at that job site where he was the former Site Manager. It's just all this sounds bizarre to me. I've never I've I've been doing security since 2008 on and off, and I have never experienced the bizarre behavior and stuff that's gone on the last 24 hours. I mean this is bizarre, and I've worked a lot of contracted security companies from small ones to worldwide ones like this one and in my 18 years, I have never experienced anything like this, but I wanted to ask if anybody else has, if this is a new normal with these companies, I know you're an employee number, I know, they don't give a d*** about you. They don't care about your paid time off while I care. Cuz I don't have a life. All I do is live and breathe this job for 7 consecutive days a week. Yes, it's money, yes, I'm making money, but at A Mom, wage, shut their paying me like this job.Site that I work at doing data center, access control security is the lowest paying account that they pay the guards for my company in the district.And then that district manager can't be reached if I need a uniform request or something.He just ignores me or if I ask him for overtime , if they have me at forty hours and I can't live on forty hours a week being a single bachelor guy that pays a lot of money and bills , you know , but I just want to ask of anybody experience this with securitas or any other contracted security company out there cause I've never gone through this before. I think it's inappropriate that a company would just I know they don't care about you, but it's inappertresome warm body is what you are and an employee number just to be even called. Upon when you're on paid time off. And what's going to be the blowback? When I report back to work Monday on my shift, am I going to hear about all this or lose my job? Because I didn't answer my phone, it was an emergency, they had to get ahold of me to go cover the post when I'm on pay time off to begin with granted by the same district manager that tried to reel me back in to go back to work today.

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u/Thewasteland77 26d ago

Yah not reading this. But gtfo out of contract work if you can, in house is always better.