US Security Associates

[craig333]

Anyone know anything about them? Almost forgot I'd ever apped them and today I get a phone call. Thought I'd ask before I call them.

[N. A. Corbier]

There's a national security firm that you may remember as:

Metro Security
Advance Security
Employer's Security Company
Advance Metro Security
ESCO Metro Security
ESCO Advance Security
Metro Advance Sec...

You get the point.

They're all just names of U. S. Security Associates Corporation. Typically they do the O&R gimmick.

[BadBoynMD]

They have a few Walmart's here in Baltimore. That's about all that I know about them.

[trickshot11]

RE: US Security Associates

Anyone know anything about them? Almost forgot I'd ever apped them and today I get a phone call. Thought I'd ask before I call them.

I work for USSA in new york...I've been with them a year this month and dont have many complaints, they dont do stuff like direct deposit and it can be hard to get stuff like new uniforms , coats, ect...they also have a habbit of not informing officers of certian things like a partner of mine showed up at a site and was there for 3 1/2 hours before someone who worked there finally came and told him USSA had been fired from the site....basically, you are just a number there....nothin else

[Hank1]

If I am not mistaken, US Security Associates has contracts with Wal-marts here in Tampa Bay. Basically, they have amber strobes and drive around the parking lot continously. However, from what I have seen, not at all much of a deterent.

Be Safe,

Hank

[Curtis Baillie]

They advertise heavily here in the Philadelphia area for retail loss prevention people.

[Chucky]

Not a bad looking patch.

[mh892]

I work for USSA in new york...I've been with them a year this month and dont have many complaints, they dont do stuff like direct deposit and it can be hard to get stuff like new uniforms , coats, ect...they also have a habbit of not informing officers of certian things like a partner of mine showed up at a site and was there for 3 1/2 hours before someone who worked there finally came and told him USSA had been fired from the site....basically, you are just a number there....nothin else

I stopped by one of their sites in Destin, FL with a freind so he could get an application. I was handed an application so I took it. Read it later and see they require the employee to pay $42.00 for their background check and they charge the employee $11.00 for cleaning and prep. of the uniform they receive. $53.00 out of pocket. Kinda like buying your job? Is this common with security companies?

[trickshot11]

I stopped by one of their sites in Destin, FL with a freind so he could get an application. I was handed an application so I took it. Read it later and see they require the employee to pay $42.00 for their background check and they charge the employee $11.00 for cleaning and prep. of the uniform they receive. $53.00 out of pocket. Kinda like buying your job? Is this common with security companies?

I didn't have the uniform charge but they did charge me for my backround check and fingerprinting...took small amounts out of three checks...but both charges are normal of companies....most charge for extra shirts pants coats ect...I guess it just depends on the USSA branch in this case

[Curtis Baillie]

Your light colored posts are very hard to read. Please post in a darker color.

[trickshot11]

Your light colored posts are very hard to read. Please post in a darker color.

sorry...thats why i use the dark orange...thought it was dark enough for everyone

[hemi444]

They advertise heavily here in the Philadelphia area for retail loss prevention people.

Curtis is rihgt, I have seen them at lancaster awal mart as well. it took me a minute when I saw area code 215 in a 717 area code. I once applied for them but the application is very time consuming. I think the app was 10/12 pages long.

[Lawson]

Around my parts, USSA seems to primarily put in bids for Warehouses. They dont pay that great, they dont have very good benefits from what I hear.

I interviewed with them once upon a time, I ended up not taking the job because they looked so unprofessional. The supervisors that interviewed me had wrinkly white shirts and unkempt unfitted pants, and really laid down the rap that "We dont do much. Just check the trucks in and out. That's all."

At the current moment I give them 2 thumbs down

[Chucky]

I knew I had seen these folks before. They have the local UPS distribution center. Mostly sit in a Sally Port type BP glass enclosure and check IDs of coming and going. Apparently age is not an issue as the ones I saw call me kid. and their uniforms are as stated white shirts and blue pants. They are big on the rank system. Full colonel, Major etc. From a short distance they had me wondering if they were military or Feds or Govt cops.

On a side note the Sally port entrance is a great tool. You can come in out of the weather yet if you can't get someone to vouch for you or don't have the proper credentials then only one way you will go. Back out. Fire a shot in that enclosure and I would assume that it would ricochet off all the BP Glass and eventually shoot your eye out.

[hrdickinson]

US Security Associates

A little history: US Security was actually formed in New York, circa 1993 by Chuck Schneider and Ken Oringer. Chuck was the former CEO of Baker Industries, a subsidiary of Borg Warner and the holding company for Wells Fargo Security, Wells Fargo Armored Car, etc. and eventually Burns International. Ken was the former CFO at Baker.

After forming the company, they looked for a "platform" acquisition and found one in Advance Security, headquartered in Atlanta. Chuck and Ken moved to Atlanta, began an aggressive acquisition plan and by now, they have to be about the second largest US owned security company (Allied Barton would be number 1, I believe). Ken retired a couple of years ago. His son Keith runs the Northeast region, last I heard.

Unfortunately, like all large companies, their service quality and treatment of the officers varies from location to location depending on the competentcy of the local manager.