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Very Postive environment to work in
Security Supervisor (Former Employee) - Scarborough, ON - 21 April 2018
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The most useful review selected by IndeedI really enjoyed working with the company. The best part of the job was night patrols as I like to check guards doing their job properly at night but at the same time it was the hardest part of job as sometime it was very challenging to find the missing guard at site. The overall working culture was very healthy and I have learnt good management skills from the job.
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Bad management from the start until I left
Security Supervisor (Former Employee) - Brantford, ON - 20 September 2021
Getting hired was very simple, and I understand now that they will literally hire anybody with a security license even if they've never done similar work before. We had people working that would work for one day and quit because they weren't able to sit on their phones all shift or sit at a desk and do nothing, so the vetting process wasn't very good We had massive pay issues when the company started working this job, every single person from the head supervisor down had their pay wrong, overtime hours missing, it didn't get resolved for over a month. The actual pay itself is fine, but some people may not find that for the stress of the job is worth it. My direct supervisor, the day shift supervisor was a good guy who really looked out for us, the person above him was not good at their role, and didn't seem to have people's best interest in mind. The person in that role actually changed in the 6 months I worked there, and the newer person didn't seem to care either. The work-life balance was fine until they wanted to switch everybody to be on rotating schedules, which for some positions is fine but for security when you really have to know the same people it doesn't really make a whole lot of sense. The job got increasingly difficult because the police did not want to assist anymore or would not bother doing anything upon arrival or following up afterwards, if they showed up at all. Job changed very dynamically, when we started it was all Mobile patrol and some foot patrol, eventually the job changed to being a split of both including walking inside of buildings and not just -
Pros
Co-workers were fine, driving was straight forward work
Cons
Bad management, bad communication
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Never work for them
Security Supervisor (Current Employee) - Everywhere - 11 August 2021
Never work for this company. They don’t pay their staff and they pay them less than minimum wage. They expect you to be on call for them and drop everything just to go to work. Whether it be 4 hours and a 2 hour commute or 8 hours and 2 hours commute. They expect you drop everything for them.
Pros
Nothing
Cons
Everything g
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Buenos puestos de trabajo
Agente de seguridad (Former Employee) - Guayaquil, Provincia del Guayas - 3 February 2021
Una gran empresa de seguridad con personal de buena calidad
Pros
Seguro de vida
Cons
Ninguno
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work
Door Supervisor (Current Employee) - Newcastle-under-Lyme - 4 March 2020
strong company, well established. helpful and help to train new staff, great pay rates, lots of different venues to work on, with different styles of securty requirements
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sans
Agent de sécurité (Current Employee) - mouscron - 24 October 2019
je n'ai rien à dire de plus sur cette entreprise ce sont des personnes honnêtes et professionnel.
Pros
disponibilité
Cons
rien
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learning and very knowladgeable experience working with this company.
Security Guard (Current Employee) - Brampton, ON - 8 June 2018
I started me security career with this company. learned a lot of thing from there. worked on different sites like construction, condos, parties, mobile patrolling, parking enforcement etc. Every single time i learned new things. the company staff and supervisor is also very helpful and friendly.
Pros
extra benifits for working well.
Cons
long hours and schedule change frequently.
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Poor communication
Door Supervisor (Current Employee) - Birmingham, West Midlands - 2 December 2017
Poor communication from management appalling other than that not too bad , don’t supply uniform they make you pay for a tie even shocking! Need better area managers to keep an eye on things and reliable managers
Pros
None
Cons
Poor communication
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workplace
Postman sorting (Current Employee) - Active North East Scarborough - 17 July 2017
Been with Active for at least 8 weeks, the guys who run this company are honest and if your reliable and flexible, they look after you,not like some other companies could mention
Pros
Great Staff, everyone gets on
Cons
They is no cons if your flexible
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El aerea de trabajo es en un luga donde no es muy peligroso
Guardia de Segurida (Former Employee) - Guayaquil, Provincia del Guayas - 21 June 2017
Es una empresa en la cual hay un buen a!biente de trabajo, paga y todo de acuerdo a la ley y sobre todo son puntuales en el pago y muy eficientes en evaluar al personal
Pros
no
Cons
no
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Undignified Workspace
Security guard (Former Employee) - Durban,KwaZulu Natal - 2 March 2017
It's really not an occupation because people are paid so little. Also the environment and conditions under which the services are rendered, are not entirely safe.There are no benefits or any medical allowance
Pros
Payment on time
Cons
Long hours
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Is a good place to start a security carreer
Security Guard (Former Employee) - Security, CO - 5 February 2017
Working for Active Security was a good experience for me. I learned pretty valuable things such as; radio communication skills, write reports and oral reports.
Pros
good place to learn security tasks
Cons
shifts could be tough and compenation could be better
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poor management and poor attitudes in general
Door Supervisor (Former Employee) - various - 21 October 2016
overall my experience of this company was intolerable.
the Management made constant mistakes and used personal preferences to influence their decisions and the CEO was never informed of any staff complaints not to mention the wages were never correct
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Great hours and company
Security Guard (Former Employee) - Hawthorne, CA - 9 August 2016
Whenever I needed extra hours they could always find me a position for the hours I needed. They were even able to find me positions close to home.
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productive and good working
stewrad (Former Employee) - Anglesey - 3 July 2016
great place to work good company great management and a good team of people. easy going management that look after you and ensure you know what and how to do your job.
Pros
free lunches
Cons
long hours
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professional Security comapny
Volenteer (Former Employee) - Brampton, ON - 27 April 2016
Enjoyable workplace, Quick and helpful management and friendly co-workers. I applied here with a reference of a friend and enjoyed working with this company.
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Position with ability to grow
Security Guard (Former Employee) - Hawthorne, CA - 14 April 2016
walk around contracted properties and make sure everything is safe and sound. I have learned to stay busy at all time, the management I was very professional. The hardest part about this job was to keep a polite tongue.
Pros
Easy work
Cons
No health care
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Active day on the job
Security Guard (Current Employee) - Brampton, On - 27 July 2015
Arrive at parking lot.
Stand at post.
Watch where people park and where they enter.
If illegal parking, approach them and ask them to move.
Pros
Outdoors
Cons
Sun
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work experince is good
Security concerige (Current Employee) - Toronto, ON - 31 January 2015
work day is usually busy, have to attend lot of residents at the front desk
work with property managemnt people
buliding patrol
parking area mangement
fire alarm action
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i learn too much experience from Active security
Security Guard (Former Employee) - Mississauga, ON - 10 January 2015
I work in condo with Active security
dealing with main fire panel alarm system
coordinate with the superintendent if there is any problem in the facility , water leaking or electricity problem
respond to emergency alarm
deliver the parcel or any delivery pickup to the tenant until 6 pm
issuing visitor parking pass permit and call the parking enforcement at 2 00 am decide with the parking enforcement the system of post a fine or ticket to unauthorised viechle
checking the parking lot and the storage locker to make sure that every locker is in agood condition and record any break in or water leaking or any upnormal condition to any of the locker
using the cell phone in scanning the checking point mark in every location by sequence and submit the patrol report at the end mark after scanning every cheque mark during the patrol and to make sure that the signal of the wifi is strong so ican submit the report
doing the security daily log sheet report manualy and by security soft ware
closing the garbage shooter at 12 pm and open it at 6 am in every floor from the top to the bottom of the condo
close the laundry room and the exercise and the swimming pool and the billiard and recreation room by 10 pm and open at 6 am
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relaxed and proffessional
Door Supervisor (Current Employee) - Wolverhampton, ENG - 26 February 2014
good company to start off with, good events and good doormen
Pros
free petrol andb iniform equipment
Cons
pa insurance covering everything
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