Ecolab reviews

The company throws you in and expects you to know every answer to possibe situation that arises when it comes to you and your customers operations. Be aware that you will be expected to babysit all of your customers needs by doing everything from fixing invoice problems, wiring dish machines, setting up returns, delivering product to them when they forgot to order products to get them through the weekend all while being expected to SELL, SELL, SELL! This job is posted as a sales job but you quickly find out that you are just a service man with a tie. Oh yeah you are expected to wear slacks and a tie all while crawling under dish machines, sitting in puddles of water and cutting copper tubing. You are also expected to meet ridiculous sales numbers and are threatened with your job and intimidated when you are not meeting those numbers. You will never feel more worthless and helpless than you do with this job. Most of us are smart guys/girls but are never given the opportunity to shine because most likely you will get little to zero training.

The year I spent with Ecolab I was tied to my phone 24-7. No training. I lost a lot of respect from my customers because I was never given the resources and training to do my job. I learned more in one month working for EL's competitor then I did in one year with EL and all their training programs. EL breeds a culture of unmet promises. Every area manager, district manager, and territory manager I met had no problem telling anyone anything they wanted to hear and then conviently forgetting the promises that were made. Never expect your manager to do what he tells you he will do. Never expect pay outs on contests and sales objectives, and don't expect any compensation for gas and other expenses no matter how many times your boss promises to pay you for them. Do however, expect them to sue you if you go to the competition and take a sh-t load of business from them.