Pest Tech - Pest Control Technician Orkin Employee Review

2.0
16 Dec 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The pay is good. The job is stable. The work is easy. Once your route is dialed in you get to your first stop around 8 AM and work until around sundown. Pay is 15-20% commission. You can get sales commission on top. Most techs make around $4k a month pretty easily. If you are the kind of person that can keep your morale up despite the office and management making a mess around you, its a really steady well paying job.

Cons

The call center is the number one problem. Sometimes a customer will call, get scheduled by the main office, rescheduled by your branch, then rescheduled by you or a manager. There are a lot of hours of work in the week, and then more unpaid hours chasing leads, maintaining trucks, and if you get a route that is far from your current location you do a lot of driving for free. They also make you use a really terrible app, and have no streamlined office system. You need to remember multiple passwords, logins, and apps. The app itself really doesn't work right. I had weeks where I was scheduled to work Xmas eve and my birthday, but had 0 stops on four different days in the week with no explanation. Ultimately I couldn't handle how the office was ran.

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Orkin Response
7y
Thank you for providing us with some feedback. As a Company, we are continuously evaluating new technology to help improve the organization.

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Orkin Response
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1.0
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Good pay, opportunities for sales depending on region

Cons

Orkin cares more about quantity over quality. If you care about doing a good job, don't work here. They will load your day up with tons of jobs and not enough time to do them (or do a good job anyways.) Management lives in their own bubble, and communicates poorly. I transfered to a new region and all services were a mess. Customers who have had Orkin for a year plus had homes still infested with pests. Prior techs hadn't cleaned any cobwebs, never cleaned webbing off siding or eaves. It was embarrassing. Commercial services weren't any better. I believe prior techs were just scanning stations and leaving. Orkin only cares if you punch through reports and collect money. If you also bring up customers that are being overcharged, management will never fix that either. Benefits also weren't great and quite expensive. Manager would also use slurs like the R-word despite knowing I had an autistic child. Just a gross place with gross values.

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Orkin Response
4d
Thank you for your service to Orkin and leaving a review. It is unfortunate to hear about your concerns with the company, and we are sorry this was your experience as this does not align with our company values. We will be sure to pass this along to the leadership team. Good luck in your next role.
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