AmeriPride Services Reviews

Pros

AmeriPride is a family-owned organization that has strong values. The history of the company is felt in each of the activities we undertake. The work-life balance is good and there is a strong focus on improving communication across departments. I thoroughly enjoy coming to work each day.

Cons

On the other side of the history coin is a noticeable hesitation to change and improve our processes to stay competitive in this rapidly changing marketplace.

Pros

- Because people don't seem to care, you are not held accountable and you can pretty much do what you please as long as you report some numbers.
- The pay was decent for such low expectations.

Cons

- Benefits. 0 vacation time year 1.
- The worst training I have ever had. There was zero training.
- Management was awful. There was almost no communication.

Advice to Senior Management

Develop a training program. Hold management accountable and next time you get a great offer from a competitor to buy you out, take it.

Pros

Competitive pay for the industry.

Cons

Little employee training, no developement of management skills. Company is always changing marketing and growth stratagies. Poor planning for long term success. Inexperienced market manager with no decision making power. Decision making has been eliminated on market level and is now extremely top down operated. Field service personnel are not supported with the product they need to make complete deliveries. Price guarentees to customers are not honerd.

Advice to Senior Management

Better training for all upper level managers. Quit worrying about next months P&L and put together a long term plan for slow profitable growth.

Pros

Decent wages and benefits. ability to advance in career. privately owned. run your route as your own business. very customer focused.

Cons

the industry itself has created its own issues .accounts are constantly underbid to the point of it seems that we pay the customer to have our service. This is not exclusive to AmeriPride. I believe in fair competition for business, but Cintas came and low balled its competitors to steal (build) their business. This created the need for the rest of us to follow. Bottom line is people pay less for service now than 10 years ago. This can't last.

Advice to Senior Management

Have some balls and bring the true cost out front to your customers rather than having your csr folks trying to explain. Why don't we charge what should be charged and let the chips fall. Cintas relies on growth at any cost for stockholders. You can provide superior product and service, but it will cost.

Pros

not many reasons, training was decent, but not really

Cons

pay was really low. flipping burgers could be more rewarding. marketing was lacking significantly. dont know what else to say but not a good company really.

Advice to Senior Management

learn how to use marketing campaigns. dont have too many partners in the company, everyone will want to get paid big bucks.

Pros

Free food every morning, and every Wednesday they have food catered in. They also reimburse you for a ymca membership. The people that you work with are generally very friendly as well.

Cons

Upper management seems to be lost when it comes to how to increase market share and revenue. There seems to be quite a bit of political infighting, and therefore, things don't get done as well as they should.

Pros

Great benefits
Great opportunities for growth if capable

Cons

Close minded at times
Slow at change

Pros

Salary is decent.
Free food provided for most days.
Training budget is pretty good.
Small IT shop.

Cons

Managers are incompetent (don't manage, don't listen, don't communicate well and make technical decisions without engaging technicians).
Too many projects and project managers, but not enough "worker bees".
Benefits are mediocre.
Advance opportunites are few and limited.
Small IT shop.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to your employees. Engage technicians BEFORE making technical decisions and expenditures. Work on reducing low work morale. Acknowledge long hours spent on project work. Get rid of dead weight!