Good experience, terrible pay - Repair Technician uBreakiFix Employee Review

2.0
Jan 26, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The people hired are almost always friendly and great to work with. Company environment is usually relaxed. Customers are great in most instances.

Cons

Little to no room for growth if you don't work at a corporate store in Florida. Pay increases are either non-existent to a few cents a year. In any given day you will fix thousands of dollars worth of electronics, but only get minimum wage to do so. The job takes technical knowledge, a careful hand, and a great attitude to talk to customers in person or on the phone. A technician can easily ruin someones device several times over in any given repair. If you're reading this please look at other repair shops in your area to apply for as they will certainly pay you better for your skill and expertise.

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5.0
Jul 13, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great company, super nice owners at my franchise location

Cons

Hours can be long and OT can be expected at times

1.0
Jul 18, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Absolutely none. This location operates as a severe compliance and legal liability to the Asurion/uBreakiFix brand.

Cons

A deep dive into the operational practices of this store reveals a calculated environment of systemic exploitation, digital fraud, and intentional security manipulation that should deeply concern corporate leadership and legal counsel: • Systemic Credential Fraud: Management actively operates off-the-books labor. New hires are forced to perform live customer intake and technical work orders directly under the Lead Technician’s active digital credentials. This creates falsified labor reporting, compromises data integrity, and violates corporate cybersecurity protocols. • Gated HR Exploitation: Management intentionally delays issuing official employee IDs and logins. Because the corporate HR portal is strictly gated behind an active employee ID requirement, terminated workers are systematically blocked from accessing corporate HR channels to report wage theft or poor treatment. • Intentional Security Camera Tampering: The store lobby camera operates with a deliberately falsified time-and-date stamp and failure to record. This creates intentional visual blind spots. Management utilizes these dead zones to execute off-the-books terminations, ensuring no objective digital timeline exists to protect the worker or verify the company's liability. • Targeted Exploitation: Hiring practices appear heavily focused on targeting bilingual and minority applicants under the predatory assumption that they lack the resources or systemic literacy to navigate corporate compliance or defend their labor rights. • Attempted Wage Theft: Training hours are treated as optional compensation. Upon terminating a worker before system onboarding is complete, management explicitly states they will "try" to secure payment, flatly violating federal Department of Labor mandates until threatened with direct federal escalation.

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