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A management-led leveraged buyout in 1987 by Borg-Warner has put tremendous pressure on Burns' middle managers to produce revenue. Former employees say president Rodger Comstock's intimidating management style and the firm's alleged habit of breaking bonus promises have contributed to an exodus of managers, forcing Burns...
Members of his family say Michael Huston, 41, had been mentally disabled since the Vietnam War, which may explain why he blames "another person inside" him for setting a 1990 blaze that caused $25 million in damage to movie sets and property at Hollywood's Universal Studios. In January, Huston...
The industry's largest companies all claim to screen and train their applicants rigorously. Yet just since last fall, guards for Burns, the industry leader, with more than $650 million in revenues, have been arrested for everything from setting fire to an abandoned building in Colorado (it took 42 fire...
"A guard service is really only as good as the supervision it provides," says Michael Anesta, the director of personnel for Steinway & Sons, which stopped using Burns two years ago at its Queens, N.Y., piano-manufacturing plant. Former Burns official Gary Slodowski quit in 1990 after winning the company's...
Such criticism is vigorously disputed by Charles Schneider, head of Borg- Warner's Baker Industries, which controls Burns as well as fourth-ranked Wells Fargo. He calls Baker "the best security-guard company in the world." Burns does provide high-quality service at roughly one-third of the nation's...