The bureaucracy of this company has gotten so out of control it's amazing they can still find techs (especially experienced) that are foolish enough to work for them. Forget killing bugs, you'll be too busy doing paperwork, calling your clients before AND after each visit and then doing more redundant paperwork. Region management are laughably clueless, they just collect their six figure income. They pay applicators the same as experienced field reps. Someone here said you will wear many hats...that's an understatement. They have you do as many things as they possibly can and pay you as little as they can. They've laid off many positions including Start techs, secretaries and CSRs...guess who gets to do their work now with no raise? YOU will, the technician. Forced timed stops are ridiculous (enjoy spending 25 minutes at a stop that takes you only 7), loads of same day starts that are inserted with no notice each day, work at least one Saturday a month (you lose the day off, it does not get moved), take any vacation prepare for a sand dune of work either before you leave or when you come back (so it never really feels like a vacation). Average commission/hourly pay is carefully planned (or scammed) out so you barely scrape over 30K a year (you can hit 40K but you will have no life and be exhausted at the end of the day).
Advice to all PC techs out there reading this, old or new: work for a mom & pops/private pest control company. AVOID the big companies like Terminix and Orkin. Most of the smaller companies appreciate your work and you will feel good supporting the hard working independents, not the faceless, evil corporations run by idiot CEOs making six to seven figures when you barely make five. After a decade of PC and knowing techs working for ALL of the corporate companies at one point or another, they all agree that corporate PC companies count on the ignorance of their techs to keep them enslaved to a company that doesn't care a single iota for them.
