Ism Security

I hated the 6 months I worked there! I was makeing $10.00 an hour as an EMT at Beta Steel in Portage. I was supposed to escort a guy making death threats against his supervisors to his car, in the dark. Seriously? Like the other guy said, no benefits...Wait! 5,000 in FREE life insurance. I'm sure somehow it would make its way back to ISM and your buried in a cardboard box. I loathed everyday I worked there right up untill I stopped doing my patrols and started just wearing jeans and my uniform shirt to work.\r \r If your thinking about working there, first, go to Menards in Gary, Merrillville, etc and see how happy they look working there. Go work att Burger King. At least there you make more and less chance of assult. more

First off, no Benefits, witch wouldn?t be so horrible if there pay rate was decent.\r There average rate is 6.50-7.00! Who does security for that low??? Of course with the minimum wage increase the might of raised it to 7.50?.. But then again, why risk your life for minimum wage.\r Secondly, as soon as I went armed and started making a whopping $10.00!! They cut my hours in half, oh, but its ok because they do this thing where you can volunteer to work 7 days a week and on your day off work all night and the next day (like 20 hours) to make it up ?. Does this make sense to anyone??? And if you refuse to work on your day off then they call you constantly wanting you to cover for other guards who wer smart enough to quit.\r And they say you have to wait a year before you can take any vacation days, but when you work non-stop all year and you want to take a vacation, they refuse you any time off, because ?we have more accounts than guards?? and if you go anyway they?ll try to write you up. No wonder they have one of the highest turnover rates.\r Needless to say working here is not a positive experience.\r \r And for those thinking about hiring ISM, well all I have to say is the guards are either all extremely old and usually retired from somewhere else or young guys who don?t take the job seriously. I don?t know how many times I?ve come onto post and found the guard passed out asleep, young and old alike. Pros: Thumbs down Cons: bad customer service, guards dont do their jobs. more