AmeriGas Partners Reviews

Pros

Good IT system and Corporate Support to branch offices

Cons

Local offices are directed by area managers, " Do as I say , not as I do "" Attitude. Very little support of managers and mid level employees

Advice to Senior Management

Pay Attention to the field employees feed back , do not rely on third party here say

Pros

Employee pricing
It's a job that pays the bills

Cons

Management is incompetent. Corporate makes horrible decisions

Pros

Good hours weekends off. beneficial

Cons

low pay does not pay fairly

Pros

Company generally does well year over year but usually at the cost of layoffs. For most part the company still has a small company feel and good employees.

Cons

Some upper management has been with the company for way to long and refusing to grow and develop the company culture to where it should be. Human resources practices are very antiquated and are not in-line with current expectations. Work-life balance does not exist in this company. Constant seasonal lay-offs put way to much stress on the field and prevent changes from taking place.

Advice to Senior Management

Take a look at the company practices. Benchmark with some other companies and evaluate HR policies and procedures.

Pros

- provides a steady paycheck
- co has national recognition
- opportunity to contribute to a decent benefit plan
- able to participate in employee relocation program

Cons

- fails to consistently reinvest in itselfs dispite record profits (training / safety programs , equipment)
- does not pay employees a fair wage in relation to their skills/experience
- management fails to regard "operations area" employees as members with valuable ideas
- no "formal" inital or follow-on training /safety programs for employees
- complete lack of customer relations in the area of product knowledge , safety awareness

Advice to Senior Management

reinvest in yourself , alot of experienced and valuble employees are leaving for a variety of reason that are preventable and can be easily addressed and corrected.

Pros

Solid company with sound business plan.

Cons

No pension offered, no bonus for professionals making under 70,000 or the equivalent grade.

Advice to Senior Management

Improve bonus plan to include all professionals.

Pros

It's a paycheck.... for awhile

Cons

Ridiculous metrics, endless reports and "teleconferencing". Marketing dept. provides 10 yr. old data bases plucked from Thomas Registry that don't even use the product. If your not a sycophant to middle management, forget it! Don't work for a company owned by a holding company.

Advice to Senior Management

Adjust business model to meet current market conditions. Factor in local market variations to set goals. Listen to your employees, their the ones in the trenches.

Pros

Constantly stress safety for customers and employees. Has fairly inexpensive health insurance, definitlely not paid in full. Is not real good at replacing major pieces of equipment because of the cost.

Cons

Major dissappointment with the company is how it compensates their workers. There seems to be a standardized wage increase of about 2.5 percent per year regardless of whether the company has done good or bad financially. They use the cover of a supposedly detailed annual review of your performance and everyone gets the same 2.3-2.5 percent incresee. It makes the whole review process a farce and for looks only. Managers are given the same runaround and the only way to get a real increase in income is to quit and work for someone else. Of course, there is a non-compete contract which makes it diffucult to work for another supplier under the suspicion that you will reveal "trade secrets" to your new employer. Everybody in the propane business works with pretty much the same margins off the pipeline and are lookinf for the same customers. There's not a lot of "trade secret" to reveal. It just seems a convenient way to keep an ex-employee from leaving because it will be difficult to find the same kind of work for the duration of the non-compete agreement (two years)
Last year, the company made record profits for it's investors, but the workers didn't even get a cost of living increase. The employees are strongly discouraged from considering unionizing. There appears to be a concerted effort to keep the employees isolated in order to lever them into accepting sub-standard wages even though working with hazardous materials. A union would not allow them to bludgeion individuals into accepting sub-coost of living increases. This is something that AmeriGas does not want to have to deal with.
And AmeriGas wonders why it has the employee turnover that it has in the working ranks.
Go Figure
Is not real good at replacing major pieces of equipment because of the cost.

Advice to Senior Management

Pay your people in the trenches a decent LIVING wage. If you did, you wouldn't have the employee turnover, would spend less on training, and would have a more loyal workforce. AmeriGas wants to be a "world class" operation. Until you realize the people on the ground are important and need to make a living too, this isn't going to happen. Keep on feeding your investors the big return and screw the ones out here making the money for them and it will eventually backfire on you.

Pros

16.35 an hour is why i stay.

Cons

No air condition trucks,they say one thing,and do another.They need to put GPS in there trucks.

Advice to Senior Management

Treat other the way they would wont to be treated.

Pros

They are recognized as a industry leader. Everyone is familiar with propane in some aspect.

Cons

The busness model is not built for organic growth. Growth is mainly through acquistions. AmeriGas is highly political, when it comes to advancement and pay raises. The business is very seasonal, warm winters are bad for business. AmeriGas is committed to paying the dividend to unit holders even if no profit is made. They will borrow money to pay the dividend.

Advice to Senior Management

Focus on organic growth. You should have held onto the hard assets such as Bumstead, AZ storage. Selling off assets for short term gains does makew good long term sense.