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Roto-Rooter Plumbing & Water Cleanup

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Roto-Rooter Plumbing & Water Cleanup reviews

3.1

46% would recommend to a friend

(971 total reviews)
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Spencer Lee

46% approve of CEO

44% positive business outlook

Roto-Rooter Plumbing & Water Cleanup has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 971 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Roto-Rooter Plumbing & Water Cleanup employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Construction, Repair & Maintenance Services industry (3.6 stars).

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971 reviews
2.0
Jan 7, 2016

Roto rooter pittsburgh

Recommend
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Pros

Learned plumbing. Benifits. Steady work lol 401k Never a steady schedule if ur just starting. Pays for plumbing school. They provide the machines and cables and all parts and ppe one may need. Ur basicly on ur own.

Cons

Commission pay one will now start around 20 percent. U buy the van. Pay for the gas and maintenance insurance. Hope u get jobs to make a pay check. Work long hours longer if u need money. At times at the last minute so called managment will require to work longer. Get yeld at at every co meeting held by so. Called management. For never doing enough or selling enough Its all about the numbers nothing else. Years of employment mean nothing.NO ROOM FOR ADVANCMENT. They will break u down to get u to conform to the ways of rhe co.

1.0
Apr 25, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Upon going to 3 interviews, they try and sell you on how this company will give you job stability due to employee tenure and how the workers are like family.

Cons

During training, individuals were: texting on their phone, surfing the net, giving you dirty looks when you need to ask questions, calling most of the employees"cupcake" and asking alot of nosy questions about your personal life. They tell you to press certain buttons and to submit tickets but then denies everything to upper management. They talk to older adults as if they were kids. They tell you that you are doing great and awesome while stabbing you in the back. Just so you know, all calls are recorded. So any tiny mistake you make is magnified to the max. If you don't have a family of your own, you will have a tough time working in this environment.

3.0
Feb 21, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

In Dispatch, once you get moved to day shift you work a 4 day week with three days off. One weekend day ( either Sat or Sunday) and 2 during the week. After 5 years of service you get 3 weeks of vacation time.The employees in the office are very friendly.They have Bingo on Friday where ( if you are scheduled to work that day) you have the opportunity to win something and on Monday's they bring breakfast items in for those on day shift. It's a casual environment, jeans and gym shoes allowed.

Cons

This one location dispatched for several of the branches in the United States but you are told to tell customers that you are local, oftentimes "by the airport" if they ask. When you are hired, that is your job. There is no room for advancement, no real promotion, no encouragement for personal development or training. Service calls are over booked all the time and you are the one that gets to lie to the customer to keep them from going to another company for service and you are the one that also gets yelled at by angry customers who have sometimes been waiting for days for a service technician. You get quarterly reviews which you are required to sign off on but that you have no control over in some areas. They do offer tuition reimbursement but that mostly applies to the plumbers they are trying to get licensed, not for those in the office trying to get a degree in hopes of furthering their career. The medical benefits are horrible. One plan, no options except take it or leave it.

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