Pros
1. 4 day work week 2. Set schedule 3. 401 K 4. Company provided vehicle 5. Company provided tools 6. Company provided uniform 7. Almost entirely unsupervised work day
Cons
1. Mandatory overtime (always notified without notice [at the end of your shift on the last day of your work week] making it difficult to impossible to make plans outside of work) 2. Mandatory sales (the first 4 years of my 41/2 year employment there were no sales) 3. Mandatory meetings 4. Long Hours 5. Ever-changing start time ( during my employment it went from 7am to 6:30am to 6am to 6:30am then some days were 6am and others were 6:30 then 6am again to 7am finally ending at 7:15am with Tues. and Thurs. being 6:30am) 6. Constant bombardment of ridiculous, counter-productive, and often conflicting procedures of every kind 7. A system of metrics in place to measure your productivity, trouble call rate, broadband connectivity, customer satisfaction (phone survey [with 0 being satisfied and everything else being dissatisfied?]) and sales 8. Constant Harassment about sales ( they would ask after every job for us to text whether or not a sale was made and to give a reason why if the customer wasn't interested) even after your quota was met 9. Ever-changing diagram for van inventory placement (often being counter-productive and obtrusive) 10. Shared vans 11. Tools have to be turned in nightly as does the van including the van keys 12. Complete incompatibility from one branch of this overly complicated company to the next 13. Nonexistent quitting time ( you're done when the job/ jobs are [I was out till 2am once and frequently out till 9pm-11pm]) 14. Expected to foot and climb a 32' fiberglass ladder alone on all terrain and in all weather, day or night 15. Expected to dismount ladders (up to 40') on to roofs of varying pitch and sturdiness 16. Micro managed in every sense of the word
