G4S doesn't care
If I could give 0 I would.
I have worked for G4S for the past 5 years. In that time I have been on serveral sites majorly understaffed & unequipped to perform their duties effectively and safely.
There's also a uniform issue which at this rate, I have given up even trying to get uniforms, and have started to wear my normal clothes on site because I live paycheck to paycheck every month so can't afford to go out and buy the required colour they want me to wear. Just incase management reads this, yes I know you can make a claim for anything under £30 to be paid back, but that never gets reimbursed straight away, so how do you expect me to pay for food, rent & electricity, you know things I actually need in life?
Talking about management, not once in my 5 years have I seen a single manager come on site when they are supposed to make frequent visits to actually see how everyone is. They can't even manage cover gaurds and was forced to work 24hrs, and then they were expecting me work and extra 12 because they couldn't find anyone to cover my second 12hr shift. Really? Thats how much you care for your employees? I also remember a time when working in retail, a man came in with a knife and tried to stab someone but got arrested before any harm was done. I, naturally fearing a future incident like this would end up with me getting stabbed requested a stab vest to put under my uniform, was told "oh no one has been physically stabbed yet, so we see no need for anyone to have one". Do you call that good management? Putting your own employees lives at risk from an attacker?
G4S claims to make frequent welfare checks, which management claims to be have been completed every month, and that I'm supposedly lying to them when I say I haven't gotten 1 in months... Dude I have been suffering of depression the past 2 months to the point I was going to end my own life. When I needed G4S's welfare support system it was nowhere to be found. Yes I get you have all these bright coloured pages on the My Learning portal, but it doesn't take away from the fact I just need someone to talk to instead of feeling so alone in the black empty void.
Not once have I even been appreciated for the work I do, even the time there was a house fire and I saved a mans life from the burning building. Oh no all G4S cared about was the fact I abandoned my post, because letting a human burn to death would have been the more sensible option isn't that right G4S.








