Waste Management Reviews

Pros

Pay is excellent, benefits excellent, time off excellent, leadership team is always available to help you even if it not about work. Has a real family feeling. I would recommend a career at Waste Management if you are looking for something that has structure and would like to be treat as a human and not a number.

Cons

Can have long hours no more than 13 in a day so not all bad because you are getting paid for that time. No other real con's.

Pros

Good benefits & paid days off

Cons

Breathing down your neck about breaks & lunches but people get to take smoke breaks as much as they want. They won’t advance you to the next position as much as they promise you will in the beginning. They want you to do an absurd amount of extra work & basically do side work for higher paying positions including taking Spanish calls which means extra work on your plate & NOT pay extra for it by saying that our job isn’t limited to just our job title that’s what we agreed upon being hired. A group of people including myself was fired because a dumpster truck driver in a whole different state took a picture of the dumpster while watching porn & people started sending it through work emails to laugh about it & just because we saw it & laughed about it we lost our jobs.

Pros

Guaranteed Overtime, Benefits, opportunity for advancement

Cons

Work Place environment, corporate nonsense, if you work second shift prepare to never have a life because you NEED to fix every truck before the next day so 10-14 hour days aren't uncommon. Prepare to be watched over via camera and compass/kronos job times, and if youre just scraping by they throw more work in your laps. Everyone above you may make less than you but your job is basically making the upper management bonuses so some will actually mistreat employees cause they know they wont be getting that bonus if your job isn't completed even if it mean you not being able to go home at a reasonable time; day shift or night. Other diesel mechanic positions at other companies starting pay is the ceiling/max pay here, and you're not working on trucks that literally get covered in waste, fecal matter, and maggots and flies.

Pros

What makes a company a great place to work? Many of the things that are on the list in today’s modern workplace go far beyond money.

Cons

Listen to four people talking about different business challenges to practise and improve your listening skills. Do the preparation task first. Then listen to the audio and do the exercises.

Pros

Benefits and that’s about it.

Cons

Management feels they can work employees as many hours as they want ultimately making them pay for their lack to attract more drivers. Vacation time is inadequate to other employees, limited holiday pay, and the environment is basically slave driver with management telling you that you can’t take your PTO when you ask months in advance, again due to lack of staffing. It’s a shame because it mirrors how they treat their customers -you pay the bill but you’ll still pay because we can’t deliver on our pickups!

Pros

Good training. Excellent cafeteria. You choose hours.

Cons

Micromanaging. Constant picking. No breathing room. Phone time with customer has to be short else they talk you on your shoulder and tell you to wrap it up. They do not offer you any help on about o training

Pros

Good health insurance, no risk of layoff, pay is ok, work at your own pace as long as the shop is still getting orders out.

Cons

Management does not hold people accountable in the shop. Stupid day shift vs night shift BS never stops. The union is weak and the company has the reps in their back pocket. Pay is average for a welder in the city but is not good enough. Morale in the weld/mechanic shop is terrible. Guys quitting left and right in the PNW, lots with a foot out the door already.

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