One time I had to go from guelph to rockwood to oakville then Kitchener, all in one day with a supervisor breathing down my neck. Office staff do not understand basic geography. They let go numerous employee's due to them refusing advancement because they didn't feel safe or qualified yet for the technician role. They will also fail to mention during insulation jobs aswell, staying in an attic all day, on hot summer days with 2 people. They practice safety extremely well due to the high dangers. The salesman will under quote and do extremely unsafe jobs and say to management unrealistic time scales plus undermanned to achieve those goals. They demand you work Saturdays while the rest of the office is at home. Some have ego's not understanding why the job isn't done others understand. Work conditions are brutal you'll have to crawl through attics on the hottest days on recording and be on roofs on dangerous windy days, including the winter when its covered in ice. The pay is not worth it considering at other companys a wildlife technician makes around 20-25. Pay is $16 for assistants and 17 for technicians, benefits are okay. Getting a truck in that time span is way to soon, considering half the stuff we do is borderline safety violations.The workload we have to do is insane while being exhausted. I advanced quickly and got a truck within 3 months due to everyone helping each other out. The technicians are awesome to work with, you start out as an assistant. There's no structure for the management to follow and a lot of the times they wing it, and if it ends badly, it's not them - more. As I said, management feeds into the trash talk nature of the young and often immature employees. They make office life fun and upbeat but when they go in to their offices the true nature of the Skedaddle employees shows. The higher ups are easy to talk to, and great people to be around. Management actively participates in trash talk and will give hints as to who is going to be fired. It's common knowledge that when you leave at the end of your shift, you will be talked about badly, by whoever is left, or by the people who have managed to stay there longer than a year. You will be penalized for having a bad day, you will be told who will most likely try to get you fired, and you will be made fun of for things you can't change, and then will be penalized for not getting the jokes. There's a power struggle among management for who is the true manager that usually involves an employee having to choose who to listen to instead of knowing who to listen to. Sometimes management is your best friend, other times management hates you but won't tell you why, and on the odd occasion you will be reminded just how much you owe them. The management style at Skedaddle is very hot and cold. It took me a while to realize what it was: Management, or lack thereof. The office is clean, there's complimentary coffee, bathroom breaks when needed, you can smoke every hour on the hour, but something there is off. Skedaddle as a company is really great to work for. No breaks, eat lunch at your desk and work at the same time. Terrible communication between CSR's, management and the workers. If you weren't included in the clique, they made sure you knew about it because you felt excluded and picked on. Management and staff were very rude and talked a lot about other staff members and caused a lot of drama. If you were new and didn't fit into their clique, you were not going to get along well with anyone. The other CSR's were very judgmental and cliquey. The job wasn't difficult, getting the training and knowledge on how to do the job was hard because no one wanted to train and the ones you got stuck with showing you the job, were not very helpful. Little to no training on most things, no one wants to train you so you either sit there and watch someone else or twiddle your thumbs but you get complaints that you are not doing enough work. Once I started things went downhill quickly. I was originally super excited to work here, the CSR manager I interviewed with was great during the interview and had me super excited to work there.
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