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Trutech Wildlife Service

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Trutech Wildlife Service reviews

3.2

50% would recommend to a friend

(113 total reviews)

Jeff Campbell

58% approve of CEO

51% positive business outlook

Trutech Wildlife Service has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 113 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Trutech Wildlife Service employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Management & Consulting industry (3.7 stars).

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113 reviews
5.0
Jul 27, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Working for Trutech is great for those who love being outdoors and not being stuck in an office. You are provided with a company truck, gas card, and a cell phone. There is tremendous potential to move up in this company and your earnings are based on how hard you work. If you are willing to work hard you will make good money. You are pretty much your own boss. You can set your own hours and you don't have anyone telling you what to do and when to do it. I love working for Trutech for all of these reasons. Trutech is a great company and I look forward to my future with them.

Cons

You may have to work long hours and there is a lot of driving involved. If you don't mind driving and being in the truck a lot, no worries. Sometimes you have to deal will disgruntled customers. During the summer the heat can be miserable in GA!

1.0
Jul 13, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

During my time with this company, I did like working outside (when I wasn't in a hot attic or a moldy, spider-infested crawlspace). I liked that I had some freedom and independence in planning my work. I also enjoyed some of the actual work, when I was actually able to provide a valuable service to the customers.

Cons

If your experience as an employee of Trutech is anything like mine, you can expect the following: When you are hired by this company, you will be given about one week of notice before you're expected to report to training; even if you reside several states away. You will not be allowed to give your current employer two weeks notice, but Trutech will require you to give them two weeks in order to receive a good reference when you leave them. You will receive no reimbursement for your travel to the training in Georgia or for any moving expenses. However, you will soon find out that they paid for some of these expenses for other trainees. You will confront management about it, and they will deny it at first. Eventually, they will tell you that you will be reimbursed for travel expenses to training, but you will never actually receive this reimbursement. You'll go through three weeks of training in Marietta, GA, which will consist almost entirely of sales training (more or less a brain-washing curriculum to make you a more pushy salesman and convince you that the company's prices are justified and not too high). During this training, the CEO will constantly interrupt to tell you another story about how you're only a "loser" now, but someday you can be "winner" like he is when you're wealthy. You will be in training 6 days a week from about 7 am to 5 or 6pm, which will give you almost no time to find a place to live in your newly assigned area. Sometime during the last week of training, you will actually spend a few hours discussing laws, equipment, techniques, and learn hardly anything about what you actually need to know to provide a good service. Also, at some point during training, they will reveal the other half of the half-truths they told you in your interview. For instance, they will reveal that your pay will not actually consist of a base pay plus commissions, but actually a "safety net" made by your commissions. If you don't reach or exceed the amount of this "safety net" in a month of your commissions, then you will be put in a deficit and this amount will be taken from your paycheck when you do exceed the "net" amount (they actually call it a "draw"). They will also reveal that you will actually be a full-time pest control technician, even though they told you when you were hired that you would be part-time pest control and part time wildlife control. When training is finally over on Friday, they will tell you that your work in the field starts on Monday. You will have to beg for time to move your belongings to your new home in your assigned work area. When you start work in the field, they will give a pest control route that consists of over 100 monthly customers which are scattered across a huge territory. Many of these customers will require multiple visits each month. This route will be valued at less than the draw (safety net amount), so they will still expect you to make up the difference of hundreds of dollars by making sales. You will find it very difficult to make enough sales, however, because you are already working 50 to 60 hours each week trying to to keep your numerous customers happy within your enormous territory. You will also be required to keep your phone with you always, and be on call 24/7. I should also mention that the company will charge you $40/month to use their "company" phones. You will also be required to purchase much of your own equipment for the job. You will become frustrated by your inability to reach your sales quota and your lack of time to devote to your family and friends. You will state your concerns to your supervisor on several occasions, and he will simply brush them aside or label them as excuses. Eventually, after several months of frustration and abuse, your supervisor will show up at your home unannounced on some random evening to tell you that he is letting you go because you're not making the company enough money. If you think this all just sounds too outrageous, then simply consider this (I wish I had before wasting my valuable time and funds on this company): Trutech's retention rate is terrible, for both employees and customers. It is a fact that the majority of Trutech's employees don't stay with the company much longer than a year. Most of their customers also don't stay much longer than a year; most of them cancel after their 12 month contract is fulfilled.

4.0
May 18, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

You get to catch wildlife, work outdoors, drive a company vehicle, travel, and meet some cool people along the way. Also, your boss isn't looking over your shoulder all the time. You really don't have to do anything you don't want to as long as you appear to be making money for the company, but that sometimes reflects on the company.

Cons

You often times have to pressure people in to signing contracts and buying your service. Also, this job will feel like it consumes your life, which is ok, unless you prefer to have a healthy balance between your work and personal life. You will be a slave to your phone and to your customers. The actual work itself is awsome....if you can overcome being a salesman. I personally have always disliked salesman, especially ones that solicite door to door. So if you can overcome that, then you will probably be successful at TruTech

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