What's the company culture at Allied Barton Security Services?

Every business has it's own style. What is the office environment and culture like at Allied Barton Security Services?

Are people dressed in business casual, jeans and t-shirts, or full-on suits? Do folks get together for Friday happy hours and friendly get-togethers?

What is a typical day in the life of an employee at Allied Barton Security Services?

Be careful when look at this company as a place of employment. They have ALOT of rules as to what they want you to do but there is not much they will do for you. For instance, they have a position that specifically states "prevent chronic lateness and taridiness". However they will have you work 10-12 hour days. After you work this long, you would thing if you came in the next day an hour after your stating time that would be understandable. The management is a "revolving door" and thus your directives will follow the same pattern. There may be better offices than in the Southeastern region. THINK ABOUT JOB OFFERS CAREFULLY!

Jan Q. Public in Knightdale, North Carolina said: Be careful when look at this company as a place of employment. They have ALOT of rules as to what they want you to do but there is not much they will do for you. For instance, they have a position that specifically states "prevent chronic lateness and taridiness". However they will have you work 10-12 hour days. After you work this long, you would thing if you came in the next day an hour after your stating time that would be understandable. The management is a "revolving door" and thus your directives will follow the same pattern. There may be better offices than in the Southeastern region. THINK ABOUT JOB OFFERS CAREFULLY!

THAT IS SO NOT TRUE. I WORK THERE AND I NEVER HAD A PROBLEM WITH ANYTHING YET. THEY ARE VERY UNDERSTANDING ABOUT CERTAIN SITUATIONS AS LONG AS YOU DO YOUR JOB THAN THERE WOULD BE NO REASON FOR THEM TO ACT LIKE THAT.

I was an account mgr in Salina Kansas and I have to say Allied Barton for the most part was a great company accept my direct sup.
The Dist. Mgr Brad was a great guy but the person under him would not help me with out an attiude plus he never did train me the way I should have been traind, and when I had problems with the account I was manager at my sup really would not help and I had to go to Brad, at least he did support me. I really did like working for them and wish I could go back an work in wichita but because of things that happened at my account and the harresment from th client I had to quit and Brad was not to happy with me.

The atmosphere is watching your back all the time. Things may appear to be going great until someone decides that they don't like you, the way you dress, or the position you may take, or if you get in their way when they want something. If you are in the "OFFICE" you are ok, but if you work in the field you are constantly at risk of someone you don't know, never wronged, in short being blind sided without being able to spaek for yourself or bringing proof to the table about what is going on. Be careful it could cost you plenty in the long run.
Current employee and Supervisor

Host said: Every business has it's own style. What is the office environment and culture like at Allied Barton Security Services?

Are people dressed in business casual, jeans and t-shirts, or full-on suits? Do folks get together for Friday happy hours and friendly get-togethers?

What is a typical day in the life of an employee at Allied Barton Security Services?

PART 1

While this review is concentrated on this particular field of Human Resources endeavors, the first part is intended to be a reproach on: WILLIAM (BILL) WHITMORE JR. (PRESIDENT AND CEO OF ALLIED BARTON SECURITY) AND ALLIED BARTON SECURITY COMPANY itself, a subsidiary of Blackstone Financial Group. I am going to exemplify Mr. Whitmore and Allied Barton as examples of the wrong things to do, using the accumulative hard evidence (proof) I have to back it up.
This is the first of a 6 part article. I wish to thank the employees on the ground, of the many Security Companies (including three that claim to be the largest in the USA), their clients and client employees for their contribution to the majority of this article. Further, I wish to express my thanks and best wishes to the support staff of all of these fine organizations; district managers, operations managers, schedulers, site supervisors and last but not least the members of the Human Resources Department. Most of these persons are well above the norm. This does have a negative side effect however, and that is when the exceptional becomes the norm; the abnormal is spotlighted.
With Respect, I will not be using names of other companies, personnel, especially clients. Nor will I use settings that may be known on a public level which might be used to identify any such identities.
This first part is intended to illustrate the basis of a growing problem within the Corporate World of Private Security. To illustrate the abuse of terminology, promises, and guarantees delivered to clients, employees and the public in ge

public in general. The extent of these actions, in this case, specifically; William Whitmore Jr., President and CEO of Allied Barton Security, resulted in a federal criminal complaint being filed with the F.B.I and the District attorney’s offices in three different states against Bill and the two attorneys of Martenson law in Atlanta Georgia. And through direct actions of William Whitmore Jr. ~ the Allied Barton Security Company itself has now been included in the Criminal allegations for defamation and issuing threats to slander and to file false police reports to leverage confidential information out of my control (see attached letter), that are to be used in the upcoming litigation. Allied Barton IS one of the finest Security Companies in the World; it is a shame that its reputation had to be tarnished by the likes of William Whitmore Jr. and his illustrated lack of training on HR matters, and his fear of the truth. Is this how he got his award from the “ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE in 2004?
When Bill Whitmore sent inter-company correspondence, marked as “Confidential” to third parties for use in the alleged extortion attempt, he DID BREACH his and the Companies written code of ethics and the trust of all the employees and clients, by showing that his promises and written word means nothing. What about the confidences of all the other personnel, clients, and companies that have been put into his hands? Can they trust him to keep these confidences as promised? In my opinion, it would be ludicrous to think Bill would not do the same with all secrets and confidences if it suited his purposes. How did Responsibility and Ethics figure into his actions? What is he so afraid of?
Even scarier is the fact that Bill is on the Homeland defense’s “Private Sector Advisory Board.” What about the secrets he has learned there? Who is he telling them too and for what considerations or motivations? I ask this question as an American and a member of the private security in

Closing note: Law suits are slow moving activities, but they do move toward the inevitable conclusion; the public trial and total disclosure of all evidence available.

End of part one…..

It is an entirely different company in the East than it is out West of say, Chicago. Once you get to Colorado, Washington, etc, Allied Barton is an orphan. That's where I worked with AB for almost five years.

The Company Newsletter (which no line employees get access to read, at least out here) speaks in glowing terms of the great job performance of employees in D.C., in Ohio, in Tennessee.
There is virtually no mention of any activities or achievements in the Western states. It's as if the USA ended in a line going from North Dakota to Texas!
So the job situation you experience in Washington DC is likely to be vastly different from the one you may have in California.

The culture varies a lot from site to site within the geographic region, too. One site may have a good account manager who looks out for his people, and clients and another site a few miles away has a do-nothing blowhard, mostly interested in making a big impression at the office while his sites are chronically understaffed.

Out West I saw that poor Account Management performance tolerated for years and years. It's really a CYA/Good Ole Boys club situation in the regional offices out here. Most of the hourly employees have no idea of any of this, naturally.

Most sites have uniform requirements which are crafted in conjunction with the client's input, so you may see blazers on one site, white shirts and ties at another, or maybe Polo shirts and a third site.

In my experience Allied has let the site supervisors and assistant site supervisors take up the slack in staffing shortfalls, forcing them to work 16-hour days for weeks at a time with no days off. Knowledge of this stopped at the Account Manager level; the Regional Managers had no idea (or seemingly any desire to find out) that it was going on.

So I'd say if you're in Baltimore or DC or Florida, yes, check out AB. Out west? Be careful and keep your options open.

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