Immigrants be aware! - Civil Engineer Tetra Tech Employee Review

1.0
May 25, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Sometimes I got lucky and I had a 60 minute lunch break like everyone else in my department otherwise I just worked and ate lunch at my desk.

Cons

If you are an immigrant you will be used then abused by staff and the company, only if you are an immigrant in a senior position will you be ok. You will be expected to do work in your own time. If you are an immigrant with good work experience you will have junior staff, with little experience, telling you what to do, managers know this but because the juniors are Canadian citizens they are favoured. Your work will be used but with no acknowledgement of your efforts, only of the junior staff member who took your work and deleted your name. If you look semi-good in a mini skirt you will go a long way in Tetra Tech EBA. If you are a female and don't look so good then you must kiss-up to the male managers, giggle lots, give them extra attention etc etc. If you are a male immigrant....that is too bad.

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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
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Pros

Hired as a "fire-hire," the position is disaster based and 100% travel so you get to travel domestically paid for by the company. When working, pay is good, you can make a lot very quickly with overtime. Being part-time, I can take time-off whenever I want for as long as I want.

Cons

For my position, no natural disasters = no work. Living out of a hotel for months SUCKs and burn-out is real as you could be working 7 days a week, 12 hours a day for months on end. There's no added compensation for taking on an on-site lead position even though the workload triples. As a part-time employee, you have to pay more for benefits when working versus not working. There's a huge disconnect between part-time employees in the field and the full-time employees that do office work and upper management. Part-time workers are not prioritized unless they're willing to do whatever is thrown at them without complaints. The employee turn-over rate in the field is crazy.

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