Sultry: "I did not find anybody who had a positive experience working for Allied" Sultry says she was told to disarm people coming into the hospital with weapons on her first day. She'd have to escort corpses to the morgue, and didn't have any training in that area. The company is losing control of its contracts as it grows, he says.
The three biggest private employers in North America are Walmart, Amazon, and a security firm you’ve maybe never heard of: Allied Universal. Time’s Alana Semuels explains the rise of poorly trained and poorly paid private security guards across America.
This episode was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd and Michael Raphael, and hosted by Noel King.
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