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Tradesmen International

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Tradesmen International reviews

2.9

38% would recommend to a friend

(1,036 total reviews)
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37% positive business outlook

Tradesmen International has an employee rating of 2.9 out of 5 stars, based on 1,036 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Tradesmen International employee rating is 22% below average for employers within the Construction, Repair & Maintenance Services industry (3.7 stars).

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1K reviews
1.0
Jun 22, 2015
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Pros

the company provides you with base pay as well as training which is very comprehensive.

Cons

Poor management long hours over saturated market hard to find good laborers to fill job orders that come all too rarely Mileage log is way too specific and tedious

1.0
Jan 13, 2023

Prioritizing Profits Over People

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Pros

Company openly associates with anti-union politicians and entities—if you’re into that sort of thing. Hopefully so because they will insist that you share those views and you WILL be verbally abused for having different political opinions. Do you verbally and physically abuse your family and coworkers? Break things at the office? Don’t worry, Tradesmen will protect your job regardless of your behavior if you have good sales numbers. Speak up against it? Enjoy your new assignment somewhere less desirable. Are you racist or anti-LGBTQ+? That’s right, many of Tradesmen’s finest are as well, and won’t be shy to let you know. Best part is that the company is fully able to exonerate itself of any wrongdoing. It doesn’t matter if one employee tells another that they’re going to hell for not sharing their religion. Tradesmen says that’s a-okay, and if you speak up the company will absolutely attempt to threaten your job to get you in line. Want to have your hard work exploited so the company can sell for a few more dollars in the next few years then cut you loose? Come to Tradesmen, where upper management thinks employees can’t see the writing on the wall.

Cons

Protects racist employees. Actively encourages anti-worker, union-busting activity. Routinely misses pay deadlines for field employees. Encourages and coerces employees into performing illegal activities to put laborers to work. Hyper focus on metrics, REQUIRED MONTHLY PERFORMANCE REVIEWS FOR ALL NON-MANAGEMENT OFFICE EMPLOYEES. Limited advancement opportunities, pay increases come with mandatory contracts. In my entire employment span, despite working in an office environment, I had three managers in succession none of whom ever visited me or my office and one of whom had no actual industry experience. Company explicitly expects every project coordinator who is assigned a geographic area to achieve identical metrics goals that are unattainable for the majority of markets. When metrics aren’t met, performance plans are usually threatened. As a result, most entry level positions have no chance for pay raise, bonus, or advancement. Company has relatively high turnover as a result, training is minimal and reward is nonexistent. Most importantly though: the offices with the highest sales are explicitly allowed to bend more rules and actively engage in unethical, illegal behavior within and without the company.

1.0
Mar 12, 2014
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Pros

Some of the co-workers warned me immediately about the place being so screwed up. They were correct.

Cons

Management is pretty sad, training in Cleveland lands you a strange roommate for a week in a hotel room, training itself is pretty lame, mileage reports were completely made up and management knew and participated. Construction workers were usually bottom of the barrel and would not show up for assignments. I was told to white out parts of a contract that was signed by a client and copy it for our files sent to corporate......this was instructed by an area manager. You never know what the commission is going to be due to unknown factors only controlled by corporate. They are the most expensive company by far and for what reason? Way to much hide the wienie.

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