Over my many years there, this company slowly went down the drain to become your typical multinational co. I started as a driver and worked my way up to a Route Logistics Supervisor. You drive 100 miles to replenish 4 or 5 ATMs at $80 a pop, you can see how some of these messengers made some good money. Now, that doesn't sound like much but consider holidays where ATM's were always needing emergency refills. If it was close to the branch it wouldn't be much, but if it was 100 miles or so then it could be over $80. They'd pay you a flat rate depending on which 'zone' the atm was located in. Brinks cut that too.īrinks had a program for being on-call for ATM services after hours and weekends. For the longest time, the only motivation you could use to get employees to work together was because of OT, once that was cut nobody wanted to volunteer to help with anything.īrinks had a policy for a guaranteed 40 hours a week, so even if the company didn't have a route for you to earn all your hours, you'd be guaranteed to get a minimum 40 hours on your paycheck. Brinks ended up using a DOT loophole to cut all OT to only 5 hours max, after that, it's all straight time. It wasn't uncommon for guys to work 70+ hours a week because the overtime is where you made your actual money. When I started back in 06', we had virtually unlimited overtime, and it was all time and a half. I worked for Brinks for roughly a decade, and the good days are in the past. It was at this time that the manager leading the meeting laughed and said "Yeah, that is not going to happen". A coworker brought up how other companies are providing hazard pay to the employees that are still out working, and he asked if Brinks would be doing the same thing. Side note, but this gives you an idea where the company places value for the employees: during a meeting about the COVID situation that was just to tell us they'd give us some hand sanitizer and demand the vehicles be thoroughly cleaned and sanitized by us in the same 15 minute expectation that had been expected prior to a national pandemic that required thorough sanitizing, meaning no additional time to ensure our safety from the virus while in the vehicles was provided. ![]() My experience could have been drastically different from what others went through, but I am going to provide every issue I witnessed and allow you to assess if this is really something you want to put yourself into. Beyond having decent coworkers, the pay was not worth the risk by any stretch of the imagination. Unfortunately, the positives were purely the coworkers, therefore, the company had no part in these positives beyond having hired decent people to work with. ![]() I will forewarn the reader that this review is very heavy in regard to the negatives, but there are a few positives. My time at Brinks was short, but long enough to become fully aware of the company's shortcomings.
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