Run away - Pest Control Route Manager (Commercial) Orkin Employee Review

1.0
Apr 14, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Other techs are good people who feel your common grievances and you occasionally were actually helping people.

Cons

Total micromanagement. You will never have a personal life and you will become an orkin slave. You constantly have a break label laws from middle management pressures. There is never enough time to do your job properly bc they try to get you to do 17 stops a day. There is no loyalty and you are completely disposable. Ladies in the office are miserable and the managers are sales men who don't know anything about pest control. They don't value their customers and you have to constantly answer for stupid company policies. Run away you will have no life

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5.0
May 20, 2026
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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
Jun 16, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

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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