Brink's, Incorporated Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Brink's, Incorporated full-time for less than a year

Pros – People are fun, the job is very simple, it is an easy job for what the pay you. You don't deal with customers except on rare occasions and the best part is they provide lunch sometimes and my co-workers are fun.

Cons – The pay is not very good on the overall. It pays the bills but barely. The management is laughable at best. The training is suspect sometimes. I often hear people that dislike their job here. I don't dislike it, I just don't enjoy it.

Advice to Senior Management – Figure out a way to reward employees for a job well done and stop treating the employees like we are in a communist country.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Brink's, Incorporated full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – ........ Well that's not going to be easy... You'll get plenty of hours, one week anyway. Them the second week of the pay period they take them away.

Cons – Hour fluctuation, poor benefits. No communication between departments or management. One person makes a change and no one else knows about it until things are all messed up.

Advice to Senior Management – Resign.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Brink's, Incorporated full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – March brought more terminations at top that were long over due.
Most anybody worth while has left while waiting on the terminations that were overdue.

Cons – New 2013 Management in place 5 months and still no vision, no direction. They terminated several execs that needed to be gone. But, beyond terminations and running people off - they have done nothing but repeat lame speeches from their first week. Bringing in Dell clique to replace BHS clique - may be better but being yelled at is not leadership. Key points for any company are direction and leadership and there is still none showing.

Advice to Senior Management – Re-Clean house. This round is not cutting it either. 50 miles with 100 pound pack is great for the Army - when does the business leadership work start?

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Brink's, Incorporated full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Historically a good company, with a great history. First company to have an armored vehicle, and overall has very good people working there.

Cons – Senior management doesn't have the strategic vision to take the business to the next level--or even keep it at the same level. When I left the company there were 32 Vice Presidents who did little but shuffle paper to each other, while they were letting supervisors go by the bucketful. Company is incredibly top heavy, and are not competing at a high level.

Advice to Senior Management – Get your head straight and build the business--create a vision that makes sense and stop the slow death you've caused. This was once a great company, now it appears you're just trying to let it die a slow death.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Brink's, Incorporated full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Few-very few co-workers who still value good work ethics.

Cons – EVERYTHING ELSE. No time with family. Can't move up in the company. You have to know someone to be taken care of. No integrity. A haven for scum bags who want to get paid and do nothing. NO DISCIPLINE. You have to kill someone to get fired. Employees laugh at you for trying to correct their mistake. I wouldn't trust 95% of employees with a firearm much less handle cash. I would rather go back to the military and deploy to Iraq or Afghanistan again then to work for this company.

Advice to Senior Management – They don't care for what I have to say. I would just be wasting my breath.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Brink's, Incorporated full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Location is great and the coworkers are friendly

Cons – benefits slashed for extra profit, stressful upper management, no work-life balance

Advice to Senior Management – please start treating your employees as assets and not costs.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Brink's, Incorporated for more than a year

Pros – Good people, conservative company. Steady like a turtle.

Cons – Slow to adapt technology. Stuck in "old world" mentality. Operation based company, not sales oriented at all.

Advice to Senior Management – More flexibility for Sales team.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Brink's, Incorporated full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Every day is fun, you get to flirt with all the ladies. Women love the uniform. This job looks good on your resume for those future cops if you don't get fired for stealing. They don't polygraph you but the background check is extensive. You get issued a handgun and utility belt, you can't carry your own weapon or gear.

Cons – You never know when your day will end until you clock out. 8 to 12 hour days and low hourly wage considering you are putting your life on the line to deliver money. Late dinners and my home life is limited due to the long days. No advancement.

Advice to Senior Management – More pizza parties.

Current Employee – been working at Brink's, Incorporated part-time for more than a year

Pros – It's a job. In a city that has a high unemployment rate, that's one of the few positives I can say about this branch.

Cons – Unprofessional on many levels, disorganized, an excessive lack of ongoing training, certifications are not maintained, unsanitary working conditions, lack of quality training for management, over-all low moral among majority of staff.

Advice to Senior Management – Advice to corporate... open your eyes and pay attention!! This is a huge branch that could benefit vastly by training for all levels- management, salary, and hourly staff. Certifications are severely over-expired, the facilities are quite unkempt, management is inconsistent in protocols, changes in structure are not upheld, moral is very low, and the overall impression is that hourly employees are not cared for beyond the time they serve on the job. The corporate philosophy is to place family of employees at a level of high importance. It certainly is not regarded at this branch and in turn employees are quite unhappy and discouraged due to long shifts, and a lack of consistent staffing. Cross-train ALL employees and continue to educate them regularly! It will make the branch stronger over-all, will increase productivity, and will lessen the disorganization in general. Ask for opinions and suggestions from the areas where there are the most people performing work, not just at the management level. You'll get A LOT more insight as to what is happening within the branch.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Brink's, Incorporated full-time for more than a year

Pros – You can work your way to get as much overtime as you want, very flexible with requesting days off without using any vacation days or sick days.

Cons – No likes for you to move up the ladder without being jealous, plenty of favoritism, someones always talking about you behind you back or trying to get you in trouble. Pretty working inside of and High School filled with adults over the age of 40, however they all look at brinks like a playground everyday. All Managers are no good their just as bad as the employees.

Advice to Senior Management – Get more train managers, and not people that been there for years thinking they are able to manage

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company