Great Trade Job - Anonymous employee Stake Center Locating Employee Review

4.0
Sep 28, 2021
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Never bored. Good mix of field work, computer work, and driving. Job is much easier and efficient if you keep good customer relationships and build trust with construction foremen and supervisors who call in the locates, then job is much more manageable.

Cons

Never seem to have enough help. (Good for those who want to make almost unlimited overtime). Corporate structure is immune to the needs of employees and managers. Never had new equipment, struggled to get replacement items needed for doing job correctly so sometimes I would have to buy tools myself and charge them extra hours to pay for them. Doesn't matter how much you work your butt off or save their butts sacrificing weekends and doing more on call weeks than you originally signed up for, they will throw you under the bus first chance they get in order to save money or pass the buck. Good job to get experience with locating utilities but horrible corporate structure and management for long term employment.

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Stake Center Locating Response
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Thank you for your feedback! We are currently working through some of the issues you’ve mentioned including new equipment and hiring more people to accommodate higher workload. Thank you for taking the time to give us such extensive feedback. We look forward to continuously improving.

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