Marcus Ellison thought he knew what he was signing up for. After three years in the military and another two in private security, he wasn’t easily rattled. But nothing prepared him for what it meant to wear the GenSec patch during the height of the Payday Gang’s reign.
Now, two years after leaving the company, Ellison is filing suit against his former employer, alleging gross negligence, unsafe working conditions, and what he calls “deliberate misrepresentation of operational risk.”
“They didn’t treat us like employees,” Ellison said in an interview this week. “They treated us like cameras with legs.”
Court documents detail repeated deployments to high-risk locations without adequate backup, functional surveillance, or actionable intelligence. In one incident cited in the complaint, Ellison was posted alone overnight at a warehouse that had already been hit twice—despite internal memos warning of a third attempt.
“The alarms didn’t work, the cameras had more blind spots than vision, and the panic button was just an old garage opener,” he said. “You can’t make this up.”
GenSec has not commented publicly on the case but has previously denied any systemic failures in its field protocols. In past filings, the company has argued that “all employees are fully briefed on the nature of the work and the risks it entails.”
Ellison’s attorney, Sofia Garay, disagrees. “They sold safety and delivered bait,” she said. “We believe this case will demonstrate that GenSec prioritized appearances over actual protection—at the expense of its own personnel.”
As the suit moves into pre-trial motions, other former employees have begun reaching out to Garay’s office, suggesting this may be the first of several actions.
“I’m not the only one,” Ellison said. “Just the first to stop being afraid.”