Busy work you to death - Maintenance Manager Republic Services Employee Review

1.0
Jun 19, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Decent pay benefits and plenty of work.

Cons

No work life balance for supervisors or management and they are not concerned with making it better. Lots of useless processes that come down from Area or corporate that create busy work. They load you up with so much busy work and useless B.S. that you can't manage your department. Lots of management meetings of nothing but people rambling on about useless info. They want to write action plans about everything. I've spent time on vacation doing action plans and useless busy work to meet deadlines. Then when you say something about having to work while on vacation, they tell you you should have cancelled your vacation. Really? After work how many 80 hour weeks for how long? Some as much as 90 hours with no days off for weeks at a time. No thanks my life has improved 1000% since leaving that cluster.

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Republic Services Response
7y
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Cons

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Republic Services Response
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Thank you for your feedback! Republic Services continually strives to maintain a high-performing workforce that is diverse, engaged and well-prepared to meet the needs of our customers and communities. We're happy that you are a Republic Services team member.
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