Rural Metro reviews

2.6

34% would recommend to a friend

(204 total reviews)
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Mike Ragone

23% approve of CEO

25% positive business outlook

Rural Metro has an employee rating of 2.6 out of 5 stars, based on 204 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Rural Metro employee rating is 24% below average for employers within the Healthcare industry (3.4 stars).

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204 reviews
1.0
Nov 29, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Umm... I guess its an easy place to get hired at, does that count?

Cons

I hope this section doesn't shut down before I finish. Well I am writing this to you from the street corner in a tiny ambulance, where I have been sitting for the last 3 hours (total of 9 hrs of without access to a bathroom, place to eat, or place to even walk around and get out. It is 15 degrees outside and snowing so yeah, I'm not going to walking around in the parking lot. The ironic part of this is that I am .5mi away from the quarters that we pay money to have and have all the facilities we need. How many of you got those new GMC (Taylor Made) ambulances ... I could fit in those when I was 15yrs old and 150lbs. We have 6 managers that have somehow kept their jobs while we have gone through 5 general managers, and about a dozen supervisors, and hundreds of employees. There are multiple people with MBAs at this company, BA Business administration, and other educated people, but we manage to promote 22 yo kids with no education or work experience, who have been paramedics for a year or so. And they wonder why they cant function properly. The place is a joke, people trying to do the same things in EMS that they did 25 years ago and expecting it to work....Thank god this is just my hobby as I work for a real business that makes money and treats the employees well.

2.0
Nov 1, 2013

On thin ice

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Nationwide transfer opportunities Paid Vacation Paid Sick Time* (see cons) Free Ambulance Rides The policies change so often you never get bored.

Cons

The chain of command is filled with blurred lines and its members are periodically fired and replaced right before the holiday season. It's entirely too common to receive several amended policies per week regarding a system that has already been in place for years. All employees are expendable, and the culture of the company makes this very clear. Regarding paid sick time: Employees are allowed to call out four times per year. At the fifth call out, the employee is placed on corrective action and is immediately fired at the eighth call out.

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