Poor communication, direction, management, rushed assignments, no work. Borderline fraudulent behavior to secure clients.
I was hired to assist with Covid protocols on film sets in LA, because I had experience at NBC. However, none of these jobs ever came through. Instead, they used me for my asbestos certification to sample at LAX airport. That's all fine, but they promised I'd start part-time and quickly receive a lot of work in the film sector. Instead, no such work came through. I requested a transfer to NJ as a position opened there at a company for EHS assistance. They failed to secure this project though, and I was told I was going to be assisting in office management. I had zero training in office management... It's the equivalent of being hired as EHS officer for Starbucks and being told you need to go make a pumpkin latte. Some people were nice and gave me a day or two of actual consulting work. But that wasn't meeting my 90% billability requirement... So, they me if I'd like to do a three day-a-week project 5 hrs away in Utica, NY at a metals factory for 8 weeks (Gee, wonder why no one from the office 1 hr away in Syracuse wanted to go). I said sure. In the meantime, I was asked to forge my resume and say I had construction safety exp, when I didn't have any to secure a project in NJ. After 3 weeks of silence, they suddenly spring a meeting on me with metals, in which no solid plan was actually discussed. The client wanted EHS support, but they wanted to identify waste streams. When I got there (awful city, btw, gunshots near my AirBnb), I starting doing tours of the facility and inputting the data into ERM waste determination tool as I was instructed to do. The EHS management at metals was very confused as they had requested waste sampling from my PM. The 2nd day I had done a three hour tour of the facility, and wanted to go input my data at my airbnb after lunch, so I got confirmation from the EHS manager onsite to do that. Turns out, corporate (whom I didn't know was onsite), was really upset I went home to input my data and called ERM to request I return! Really? In Covid times? I've been doing at-home enviro work ever since I graduated college in 2018. The other point of contention was that I didn't offer any other EHS support, but the site didn't request that when I arrived? To make a long story shorter, ERM totally botched this job and to repair the relationship with corporate and ERM, I had to take the fall for it (and ERM said they couldn't find any work for me). All-in-all, ERM has been the worst experience of my career thus far. This corporate model is kind of like a Ponzi scheme; they just bluff about the work they can do, and shuffle in low-level consultants who scramble for billable hours. When the work falls through, you're done.
