Trutech Wildlife Service reviews

Long hours, stressful, unpaid vacation, Saturdays required, on call 24/7, difficult clients, money is the only source of motivation, techs are seen only as a profit generator by upper management

The biggest con I would say about Trutech is the upper management's total disregard of their technicians' well-being. To them, the techs just make them money and money is their only motivation. Here are the facts... -Trutech's turnover rate is ridiculous. Most techs don't even last a year so Trutech is constantly having to hire new people to fill their spots. This is really a shame for their customers because they are paying top dollar for inexperienced technicians. - Trutech is very vague during their interview process to give them an opportunity to evaluate potential employees. If they told the truth right away the interviewee would run for the hills! I know this because I was asked to show the interviewees what a typical workday involved and I would always get asked the same things and would have to set the record straight. The main lie was that there is a base pay, which is false. The job is 100% commission. They also aren't straight forward about the hours required to work. They kept putting the interviewees with me because I was very good at convincing them that the job was worth taking (again, while I was sipping on the "kool-aid") but I still tried to be realistic. I was not compensated for any of the time I spent with the interviewees or trainees despite helping them make thousands of dollars for the company. -The training is basically sales training and most of the techs feel ill-prepared when they leave to go to their territories. Again, this is not good. You don't want to be on a 40 foot ladder and not know what you are doing!!!! I had to learn a lot as I went which was extremely stressful and dangerous! - The management's mentality is basically a "what have you done for me lately" outlook. If you don't sell then you are a "loser". - Not all territories are created equal. Techs in a bigger city have a greater chance to sell to more leads and make more money than in a smaller area. -The money may seem pretty good but when you factor in all the hours you work + on call time, you barely make minimum wage. I frequently worked 12-14 hours a day in the summer and it was brutal. I'm not against hard work but I believe you should be compensated for it. -You get almost zero time off. If a holiday happens to fall on a Sunday, for example Christmas this year, you get zero time off for it. Things got out of hand for me personally when I was asked to perform a duty that was the responsibility of the HR manager. Normally I would not have a problem with this but on that particular day I had to get home a little early (before 6 pm) to pick up my dog which had just survived a truck accident the day before and was still in critical condition. When I objected because of this reason I was yelled at by the president/owner and was told that if I were to work at Trutech I was "going to miss some things'. I wasn't too happy with the way it was handled. Also, I was promised to be promoted in September of 09. When January rolled around and it hadn't happened I expressed some displeasure about the situation. When that happened Trutech basically came up with several excuses to let me go. So I went from being one of their top techs to being fired because they said my "attitude was poor". I felt terrible because I had worked so hard for them and literally risked my life a few times just to be thrown away! Also, do not trust the positive reviews on this site. I was at the manager's meeting where the owners asked/told the managers to ask the techs that were happy to post their reviews on here.