The Unqualified Running The Show. - Mobile Maintenance Technician CBRE Employee Review

2.0
20 Jan 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Pay was good but under market rate as for the specialty trade tasks sprung upon a tech as for a position their recruiter said was supposed to be handyman level for retails accounts. Take home vehicle.

Cons

Those running the account were clueless of how to run a maintenance account and who and what the account was about and blind to what they need and deaf to those in the field trying to tell them. Telling the account yes on everything they needed without research or investigation of what and how and proving constantly to the client we weren't ready or equipped capacity or otherwise was met livid managers for the tech arriving on site. Nothing like making excuses for your employer or them telling and expecting you to lie for them. Coverage promised in order of demand with more accounts and a geographic area than one tech could ever handle created plenty more stress and a lot of windshield time and no time to have a personal life. Safety is preached and PPE's and procedures to the hilt make the job more difficult and a hindrance to do creating more safety issues that solving them. The aforementioned is thrown out the window if the job urgency is out the window. Even if advised otherwise on safety, it's a do it or else many times as to impress the client that CBRE are Superman. If you have plenty of trainings and several years of experience the "team" concept will put you in a team lead technical advisor spot that regional managers get paid for but directs to you without the pay. Also as for the poor moral, you become who all vents to about the above. Those in administration in the office are awarded for their "innovations" of how much more they can dump their administrative and clerical duties to the tech in the field to where for each job the tech does it all on substandard phone apps short of mailing the client the invoice. Per the aforementioned, to where you could normally knock out up to 10 or more jobs in a normal remote service tech situation, you may knock out 1 to 3 jobs if you're lucky as 20 more "do now" jobs are loaded in your cue in your enormous backlog you're hounded about. There's much more to be said, but you get the idea...

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

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