- Managers can pass abusive/derogatory comments and unfairly blame technicians for mistakes.
-Some coworkers are big-time bullies who will try to harass their less capable counterparts.
-Work hours are too long (average day is 10 hours long).
- Endless twists and turns and unexpected complications regardless of however much one plans ahead.
- Teams rarely use to-do-lists, so sometimes they end up driving miles back to the office from far away locations in order to get missing items.
- Work as a Technician is very physically laborious (climbing stacks as much as 300 feet high, often several times). Other tasks are also physically laborious, such as loading equipment in trucks.
-Work often requires extreme attentiveness to detail and exceptional listening skills.
- Technicians often have to work in extreme heat/cold in refineries, which have very high noise levels.
- Very high percentage of travel, sometime to locations 11 hours away.
-New lunch policy is inflexible and one frequently ends up paying for lunch from one's own pocket.
-Testing equipment frequently malfunctions.