Pros
-Medical insurance. You will need it -I made it out alive
Cons
-No work life balance -On-Call WAY too much. Missed time with family and kids, strain on relationships, holidays, vacations, friends in town, etc. You life becomes this job. -Free apartment is not free. You get paid less to live on site, but they don't pay enough to live within the required 15 minutes to be on call. -They use on site apartment to take advantage of you. They consider you 'always available" and if you don't do what they want, they can fire you and you have 3 days to move out or you and your wife and kids will be homeless with no job. -Not enough maintenance guys to keep up with demands of the properties -50+ hours a week normally and still not caught up -Expect to be called out multiple times every night you are on call. It could be a 5 minute job, could be 5 hours. Then you have to get up and work another 8-10 hour shift and hopefully its not snowing because they don't contract that out. -Pay is still in the 90's. -Raises don't keep up with inflation. Work harder, Makes less every year -Upper management not concerned about employees welfare unless it saves them a dollar or from being sued. -They Triple rents and brag about the extra millions in profits but Employees and resident see little benefit besides superficial things like new tvs in the community room where no-one goes -Lots of maintenance guys getting hurt. Never seen so many guys go on workers comp and not come back. Reflection of workload and unrealistic expectations. -Your expected to be on call for indefinite amounts of time if someone is on workers comp. even if its a year, you will be on call for a year. Don't expect them to care about you missing your life -Pay is way too low for Denver in 2017. Min wage is going up faster than their raises. -30K was good wage in 1997, not today. Average wage in Colorado is 70K and a home is 400K. -A plumber,hvac,electrican,roofer, any skilled trade can make $30 hr easily but they expect you to do every trade for half of that. -Regional Maintenance Supervisor has no soul. I've seen so many employees cry working here. -Cant afford to ever buy a home, even if you did, you wouldn't have time to live there -Moving up is very political -Fire alarm going off all time in the middle of the night especially on weekends -Always getting called out from 10-3pm on Saturday for drunks running into the garages gates and breaking them. Then homeless people get in a break into cars -Residents have high expectations from paying so much in rent but upper management doesn't understand the toll on employees -Assistant manager told me she qualified for low income housing. Ironic the people who manage the place can't even manage to find a place to live for themselves. -My car got broken into 3 times in the secured garage thats not secure. Management didn't care, didn't offer to help. -At the end of the day, its all about the owners getting rich -The Trickle up economic theory. Studies show these big companies are making record profits but wages have been stagnant. They had an employee appreciation even to tell us they have 11 billion in buying power...and the employees get a flimsy paper "GOOD JOB" certificate. Job well done, owners have new Porches, I get to unclog peoples DOO-DOO all day.
