Aramark Uniform Services

I worked at the Q Center for Aramark as a custodial worker for 16 years. Until a new manager took the place of our old manager this year. Her name is Ana Ruiz. She never liked me, from the beginning, so the minute she became my boss, she harrased me infront of everyone. I told this to the human resources there, Barbara, she didn’t blink once and didn’t care.
They treat several other employees horribly there and no one listens.
I had no choice but to quit. Daily I was being harrased & belittled by Ana Ruiz, she is a horrible person and Aramark did nothing. How can they allow a manager to act this way? It is un-professional. It was literally like being in grade school and being bullied. She is not professional at all!
I hope something is done. Thank you for listening.

i was the maintenence supervisor at the mckinley chalets for 2 years, i left this position for many reasons, inept management the general manager is from new zealand and got his job the same way he got his u.s. citizenship, married into it, i watched this guy ruin a beautiful property in the alaska tundra in less than 6 months, when i say ruin i mean trainwreck, for starters the property has over 600 rooms because of "budget" issues the waste water treatment plant is always last on the list for any repairs or upgrades, so the plant has not worked properly in about 10 years, aramark learned to pay the fine instead of fixing an enviromental issue for the last 8 years, as well as leaving untreated sewage under 2 dining establishments, over 10 inches deep being contained within in the foundation, basically both buildings are acting as sewage holding tanks, since the temperature drops to 40 below the sewage freezes solid and is left until the next spring season, and since it is so disgusting when it thaws out nobody will go clean it up, i personally had to fire 2 people for not cleaning it up, i was dissmissed for insubordinaton because i couldnt get any help to clean up the mess, or support from upper management because it would show the lack of intelligence it takes to run a hotel, and cut into aramarks bottom line for the shareholders, so in closing i ask that anybody that went to the aramark property in [protected], please complain about the smell of sewage you experienced in the courtyard cafe and cabin nite

I work for Aramark in Milwaukee Wi, and we have made complaints to corporate about harassment by the chef. We talked to the manager so many times that we are tired. He talks really mean to us, he acuse workers of using drugs when they dont do drugs, he call us stupid, he talk badly about a workers sexual orientation. He intimidate us by saying if with dont do what he say we are going to get fired. It is to much already, we dont know what to do. The manager says that he cant do anything because his hands are tided and he is waiting on corporate.

I was just this weekend at the Wango Tango Concert in Irvine California and the company Aramark that runs the concession stands. What a rip-off they are.. I remember last year when Centerplate ran the place, they were very generous with their portions of food, etc.
We go this weekend to a concert and order Chicken Fingers.. Ok, for $8.50 you get 2 CHICKEN FINGERS and a handful of FRIES.. Can you believe that..
You can see the the windows how dirty the stand was. The poeple running it were very nice and apologentic about the situatoin but were forced to follow the rules..

I just wanted to point out how Aramark ran a perfectly good gas station and RV park into the ground. The Chevron in Healy is the only place for public showers and laundry within fifty miles. Aramark never fixed anything, price gouged local patrons, and promptly ran off any and all busniess they could to post a loss to get out of a contract. There is a reason the gas was $5.69 a gallon when the nearest competitor a mile away was $4.99. As of today, $4.21 here and $2.99 a mile north. Good busniess! Have a $7 bag of cheetos and wash it down with $6 Odwalla. I now see why everyone hates them! By the way, I am an ex employee who got to see their selective random drug tests, firing people to save bonuses, managers stealing the company blind, and a management that is so grossly inept I am almost ashamed to list them on my resume.

I have personally watched Aramark employees that work in the kitchen of schools, dropping food and picking it back up and not even cleaning it and serving it. I have witnessed milk being returned half empty, and put into other containers and resold. I have witnessed workers sneezing on hamburgers before wrapping them for sale. I have even watched as a bug crawled on a piece of food and was squashed and the food still served. Aramark is disgusting. They should be fined and put out of business. There are so many complaints about this company.

They are gross.

Service giant aramark, and william penn aware of dangers but ignoring them due to cost.

I was recently forced to resign my duties as the maintenance manager at the william penn school district, employed by aramark services because I pointed out many faults in the schools that were a danger to the children as well as workers. I have written many letters to dana bedden, the superintendent, as well as joe otto, the ceo, and dr greenfield, the asst ceo, but all have gone unanswered. I have written letters to the school board, but they have simply stated that they will check into the situation, but I feel that many of these items should not be delayed.

Workers are forced to work out of a quarry street location that was flooded by hurricane floyd years ago, and again as recently as a few weeks ago, with mold still obvious on the walls, as well as electrical wires hanging, floors missing, pigeons making a nest on three floors, and pipes broken. Former mayor of darby, paula brown has helped me with information, and she is well aware that this location should not be used as mold spores can kill. Any and all equipment, supplies and anything else should be checked for contamination, which in turn may contaminate schools as they are brought into each.

Many of the eleven schools are in horrific condition, but the school district simply states that they are in a deficit, and cannot do anything about it now. Cosmetics may be one thing, but safety issues are an entire different ballgame, and parents should be made aware.

Many of the building alarms are not connected to the alarm company, so a serious problem might not be detected and dispatched to the proper authorities until it is too late.

Recently I learned that many of the sprinkler systems might be disconnected as well, causing much concern if a child is trapped in a classroom or another area. From my experience at the school district, I wondered why many of the escape doors were chained shut, or why many of the schools, especially east lansdowne on the second floor have no lock down capabilities with their classrooms. Should an attack, or a predator enter the building, or other disaster break out, these children would not be able to be locked down into their classrooms. Again, the school district said it was broke.

I also found that workers with criminal backgrounds were hired, even though the school district and aramark knew about the background. Many of the schools have old camera systems, but usually the system is useless because no one feels like changing the vcr tape every day. The new playground set at bell avenue cost in the range of $13,000, but instead of paying the company $5000 to make sure it is built safe and the correct way, the district is having their own men build this, which brings up an insurance and liability issue.

Last year bell avenue had its entire second floor asbestos tiles removed, but never bothered to have the first floor asbestos tiles removed. Msds sheets in most of these buildings do not exist, and as recently as a few months ago one janitor was rushed to the emergency room because he mixed bleach and another cleaning agent together. Bleach is not supposed to be in these schools, and aramark collected approximately 50 bottles.

I was told by my aramark supervisor to place after hour calls from the alarm company on test for the night, so that a maintenance man did not have to go in and be paid an automatic three hours of overtime. Whether it was high freezer temperatures, or building alarms, they went onto test. At one time the alarm company called the mechanics directly, but aramark changed that and made them call the supervisor because of cost issues.

There are no records or any recovery of r-12, r-22, or any other type of refrigerant, yet william penn buys it. Where is this refrigerant going, and why isn’t it being recovered per the refrigerant recovery act.

The fire captain asked to have all schools furnished with lock boxes in case of emergency, but that also falls under the category of, “we’re broke.”

The elevator inspector told us last year to have the pipes and metal beneath the colwyn school elevator painted and cleaned, but as of last month, when the pit flooded over, it was not done yet. At bell avenue, two or three times during this past year a ballast caught on fire in the classroom, and the last time the fire chief said that all ballast had to be replaced by a qualified and licensed electrician. That never took place either.

Parents need to be aware of the dangers their children face everyday at the william penn school district, as well as having aramark run the maintenance department. There are many complaints about the service company aramark on the internet, and I have included a few.

http://www.kenyon.edu/x29606.xml
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http://www.afscme.org/publications/2595.cfm
http://www.talkleft.com/story/2003/11/07/654/78214
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http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3190/is_22_35/ai_75321054
http://carolinaweek.org/html/scripts/SPRING2005/050427/aramark.php
http://www.cmcstudents.com/classic/aramark_employees.html
http://www.cmcstudents.com/classic/aramark/facts.html
http://mit.edu/thistle/www/v9/9.11/5aramark.html
http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/053107/met_173837431.shtml
http://www.privateci.org/rap_aramark.html
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3190/is_9_38/ai_113938712
http://www.ourtrent.com/news/archives/2006/03/aramark_labour.shtml
http://www.stp.uh.edu/vol63/25/OpEd3/2593097/2593097.html
http://www.joeycoleman.ca/archives/2005_03.html
http://www-tech.mit.edu/V117/N13/federspiel.13c.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARAMARK
http://quakerifcl.org/legislativenews.htm
http://www.privateci.org/rap_aramark.html
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/08/28/060828ta_talk_surowiecki
http://www-tech.mit.edu/V115/N56/cook.56n.html

These situations need to be rectified before a child is injured or worse, but the school district doesn’t seem to want to do anything about it. The ceo is 2-3 years away from retirement and the superintendent has applied for three other school districts in the past year. The board says it will stick with him, but none of this is going to help a child from being seriously injured.