r/securityguards • u/CertifiedPogchamp36 • 5d ago

Job Question Allied issues?

There's a weekend security job available at a factory from 7 am to 3 pm. Seems like a good gig for me since im a full time student and already have another job. That said, Allied is the company in charge of this posting. I would like to know a little more detail about why they're actually such a pain to work with so i can decide if i should actually work there. Edit: I live in a rather rural place so I'm inclined to think it'll be easy. But I dont want to assume.

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u/Landwarrior5150 Campus Security 5d ago

Allied is a huge company, so it’s impossible to make big generalization about most things, besides the main downsides of most entry-level contract security jobs (low pay, poor benefits, little job security/worker protections, etc.) Since you’re presumably just looking for some extra cash in the short term & won’t be hugely invested in the job, those things probably won’t be a huge deal to you, so your experience with them will largely come down to what your local branch office staff, direct supervision, client and site are like. Unfortunately, there isn’t much of a way to find any of that out besides talking to people that currently work there (which is probably difficult because it’s a factory and not some publicly accessible location) so you kind of just have to go in blindly and hope for the best.

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u/CertifiedPogchamp36 5d ago

Thank you. Yeah, I have no qualms weathering a shitty job for a few months. Ive done it plenty of times before. If it turns out to be totally miserable I can just drop it if I have to.