Comments on: AECOM overcharges by 16,000 percent and is still awarded new contract

By: Dan White

Dan White — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 07:07:08 +0000

AECOM will promise you something so great, then after you had left your job, they will send you a contract that was way less than mentioned. Then once you are out in the danger zone, they will not pay you well, will short change you. Throw you for a loop. Will end your contract whenever they feel like it.

By: Michelle Roberts

Michelle Roberts — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 07:03:53 +0000

Hi there, I completely agree with you. We are an honest, man of word with integrity who truly believe in God. Would love to work with brothers in Christ, what better way to do business. Just like the bible says, be not equally yoke with unbelievers.

Hit me up with questions to see what we can do to help in making this happen.

Thank you!

By: Troy

Troy — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 11:39:21 +0000

I’m at the CRC in Bagram as I write this and am beyond disgusted with the Indians these idiots have hired.
No clearances and yet work on military vehicles.
There hygiene is awful.
Aecom is paying them a fraction of what they would have to pay an experienced American worker.
Sixty Minutes or some other News organization needs to expose this fiasco.

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 04:10:20 +0000

I work for AECOM in Afghanistan and can tell you I work 12.5 hours a day, 7 days a week with a half day off every 2 weeks. We are are only paid 11.5 hours a day because we take an hour lunch.

By: dan

dan — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 00:46:21 +0000

From what I have heard these company’s charge the government between 12 and 13 thousand per person.This is why aecom does there crc at camp atterbury which is a military camp.It is free for them.But as you can see they make up there underbidding with washers and any other part they can overcharge for.I would like to see them audited for there time charged.Every other company works 12hours seven days with aecom its only 11 hours but I bet they charge for 12.

By: Rick

Rick — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 22:27:05 +0000

Dont feel to bad there is some crumy contracts out there one that comes to mind is in doha(contractor) that contract states if you demob in your first 6months of your contract you pay for your ticket there and the return ticket and mobilization costs they also collect 1000 a month for this in advance the last 6 months of the contract is for you return ticket
just wonder if the goverment pays this anyway i think more of this should be disscussed

By: dan

dan — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 03:11:22 +0000

Just an update.My farther in law passed but to my surprise aecom still let me go to processing at camp atterbury.However the first day in camp my wife suffered a panic attack bad enough to be brought to the hospital.This led me to call the person in charge and tell them I needed to go home and the job wasn’t meant to be.She said she was flabbergasted because this will lead me to be unemployed.I asked how I will get home and the response was “you expect us to pay for your return” well luckily I lived in chicago which was only 250 miles so I rented a car to get home.I have to say that I am one of the lucky people who has a wife that makes good money as a nurse.It is a dam shame what this money gouging company pays and there benefits to go to work and live in that crap hole of a country.Risking life and limb and where you are required to pay your own workman comp.How the government lets company’s like this operate with out putting there leaders behind bars is beyond me.And by the way the time spent in crc training at camp atterbury is not paid.They must have some good lobbyist in government where the kick backs to the corrupt politicians are plenty full.I truly feel sorry for the people who dont have any choice but to accept a job with this greedy bastard of a company.One other fact is that if our economy was on its feet I dont think any of these company’s would be able to recruit class individuals.And its to bad because that would be what they deserve.I would like to invite as many people as possible to observe the daily veterans report that shows contracts awarded.How can the same company’s keep getting multi million contract an a daily basis.And if you read the outrages sums they are getting for the stupidest things it would make your blood boil.Case in point I read one just this month for a seven billion four hundred million contract for providing foreign speaking services.And you wonder why we are going down in flames.

By: Ms Sparky

Ms Sparky — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 04:38:20 +0000

Please keep us posted. And my condolences to you and your family.

By: dan

dan — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 03:04:16 +0000

I was just hired by aecom, all set to leave for crc training.Two days before I was to go I find out my farther in law will be going into hospice to await death.I emailed them telling of my situation but didn’t even get a reply.I even said I would pay the difference in the plane ticket.When my farther in law does kick it I will email the obituary and let you know if they are really that insensitive to there employees.

By: cheryl

cheryl — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 03:28:22 +0000

well glad to hear u are happy with ae com. where are u located? if in kandahar i would be surprised……..

By: cheryl

cheryl — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 03:26:19 +0000

is he still with ae com

By: HappyWithAECOM

HappyWithAECOM — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 15:49:41 +0000

As a contractor with AECOM I am satisfied. They are a gov’t services contractor who bids as low as possible just like all the other ones and then does their best to deliver the contracted services at the price they bid. Mistakes are made…been at Dyncorp, KBR, ITT and Flour. All the same…depending on how tight they bid the contract depends on how ‘happy’ we are as contractors under that contract. Many times pricers are not experienced enough with operations and make really dumb cuts in the interest of winning and under the guise of saving gov’t money. Perfect example is the ITT bid on KBOSSS…what a mess, they way underbid and now will pay for it by having a hard time getting quality people to work for the pay.
All in all, depending on the contract, AECOM…pretty decent company. CSA…owned by AECOM…has had lots of problems with the CSSCK conract, but it grew from a tiny program (50m/yr i think) to HUGE (400m/yr or more) and they struggled to get things right throughout.

By: Hamilton

Hamilton — Sat, 08 May 2010 15:14:59 +0000

Which medical plan did your husband pick i have Vanbreda and so far the doctors we have spoken to here in tennessee do not take it. please let me know.

By: Ms Sparky

Ms Sparky — Sun, 02 May 2010 15:30:04 +0000

Aecom can not make you pay for your own PPE that is mandated by law. This Georgia location in in OSHA Region 4 Contact them ASAP.

OSHA Region 4 Office
61 Forsyth Street, SW
Room 6T50
Atlanta, Georgia 30303
(404) 562-2300
(404) 562-2295 FAX

Here’s the link to file a complaint. http://www.osha.gov/as/opa/worker/complain.html Ask for an investigation.
If Georgia has State safety program contact them too.

By: james

james — Sun, 02 May 2010 15:18:22 +0000

AECOM=A EMPLOYER CENTERED ON MONEY. . .
AECOM laid off approximately 350 of their employees at the Albany, GA site just weeks before Christmas, only to rehire them in February. They devise ridiculous safety regulations, not because they are concerned about their employees safety, but because they don’t want to pay the fines imposed by OSHA for safety violations. AECOM is also a greedy monster of a corporation, forcing employees to work “voluntary yet mandatory” overtime in excess of 60 hours per week to bail AECOM out of their underbid contract. They constantly comprise and devise new rules and pick and choose how and upon whom to enforce their penalties. The rules in print in the SOP are not the same rules that the managers instruct the team leads to enforce. Every bulletin distributed to the employees contradicts itself and the SOP. AECOM actually sent a memo out to all employees stating that the employees are required to furnish their own personal protective equipment, which AECOM requires the employees to wear i.e. safety glasses, hard hats, ear plugs, etc. It seems that itself is an OSHA violation. . . AECOM does not and currently has no plans to match any 401K contributions, offers sub par, unsatisfactory and sub standard “benefits”, they refuse to give bonuses or raises and any attempts to unionize will be grounds for termination. After one year of employment with AECOM, they generously give their employees 2 days of “use or lose” paid sick leave and 2 weeks of paid leave, however to utilize the acrued leave, the employee has to submit the leave request no less than 48 hours in advance as well as present their most recent pay stub to verify their leave balance.
The overall situation is that with employment being at such a high rate in south Georgia, AECOM essentially took over the defense contract and they decided that everyone in Albany would be so elated to actually be employed, that they could do whatever they wanted to the employees with minimal or even no resistance.

By: Ms Sparky

Ms Sparky — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:06:47 +0000

That is so nice to hear! I was beginning to think there was no contractor out there worth a task order. Keep us posted.

By: aubrey

aubrey — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:50:50 +0000

My hubby just got his first AECOM pay check, it was in when it was supposed to be and about 29% more than he was making with KBR last year. Also, we have four kids, one with autism. So far, the medical insurance has been wonderful. All of our doctors take it, I don’t need a referral for a specialist and I’ve spoken with another spouse who has had it for a while and she said she has never had any problems with it. Also, it’s a lot cheaper than KBR, by more than half. Hubby was issued Dickies work clothes and Converse boots by AECOM, has had no problems taking care of things over there that needed to be done. All of his pre employment medical and dental was covered by AECOM up front and he got $500 for food/transportation for his 2 days in Texas, that was NOT an advance like KBR does. It cost us a ton to get his ready to leave with KBR and NOTHING with AECOM. He’s much happier with the management at AECOM than he ever was with KBR.

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:28:13 +0000

I found out for myself the hard way…They’re even worse than KBR, if you can believe that!

In the pecking order of contactors hiring tradesmen, from worse to better:

AECOM
KBR
DynaCorp
Fluor

Stay away from AECOM! Bad management, especially at the PM and DPM level…you’re just boots on the ground to screw the US taxpayer. They brag that their make up will eventually be 70% Indian and 30% ex-pat (it’s now about 50/50); the Indians don’t complain and are more malliable than the Yanks. The US taxpayer is getting hosed again, because not one dime of an Indian’s salary will be used in the US, while the ex-pat’s pay will indeed “stimulate” the economy while keeping the worker off of food stamps.

By: albany-ga

albany-ga — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:53:46 +0000

They have a terrible REP.here in albany ga..the employees are overworked and underpaid..they took over a contract here and reduced almost everyone’s pay anywhere from 1-5 $ per hour..benefits are terrible…almost not worth it…but gotta feed the family…!

By: JustUs

JustUs — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:23:41 +0000

Does anyone have any info on how AECOM is to work for? Do they pay on time, treat their employees with respect, etc.?