# Why aren't G4S employees showing up for work? \[London Olympics\]

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-arent-g4s-employees-showing-up-for-work-london-olympics/628528>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 17, 2012, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-arent-g4s-employees-showing-up-for-work-london-olympics/628528 "2012-07-17T15:37:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2012, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-arent-g4s-employees-showing-up-for-work-london-olympics/628528/41 "2012-07-18T21:49:56Z")

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> [@Dewey\_Finn](#):
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> I never heard of this company prior to this debacle, but per the Wikipedia article, they have about 650,000 employees and run the security for places all over the world. So they’re not amateurs. (And they own Wackenhut in the the US, which was the subject of a couple of exposés in the old Spy Magazine back in the 1990s.)

They do the security systems for a certain five sided building in the US. It’s a huge company that somehow isnt well known. Until now.

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**Author:** ![sidecar\_jon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@sidecar\_jon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sidecar_jon)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2012, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-arent-g4s-employees-showing-up-for-work-london-olympics/628528/42 "2012-07-19T15:16:52Z")

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and their logo looks awfully like it says “GAS” to me anyway…

traditionally at least in the UK “security” staff means otherwise unemployable or really likes rules. So what would one expect from a whole company made up of that raw material.

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**Author:** ![bldysabba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@bldysabba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bldysabba)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2012, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-arent-g4s-employees-showing-up-for-work-london-olympics/628528/43 "2012-07-19T18:10:27Z")

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Thanks for the responses all.

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