ABM Industries reviews

1. Management wasn't listening to any feedback. 2. Critiques on your work were held back until you complained about something that management was doing something wrong, using it as an attack instead of constructive criticism 3. Very demanding on overtime and workload 4. Constantly understaffed due to high turnover because people hate it 5. Extremely low morale all the time 6. No upward mobility 7. Even if you do good work, do every extra task you can, are reliable, and offer your free time or weekends for overtime, they will still complain about your work ethic being not enough 8. Always trying to improve "efficiency," but not paying attention to anyone's feedback 9. Management will always guilt trip you if you try to take time off, and won't approve because there's a "conflict" because they have to be offsite for "training" (upper management party at a golf course) 10. Almost no opportunities to get raises 11. Management will hound you about misses, not because they care, but because they get bonuses if they get less than 3 complaints 12. We helped every other contractors with their job, but everyone still looks down on us because we're just "cleaners" 13. Managers micromanage more than do their own jobs, then complain that they have too much work to do 14. Management would literally count every minute we weren't physically working, but would scroll social medias for 2 hours every morning instead of doing their job, then complain that they have to do 2-3 hours of overtime everyday to get their jobs done 15. If you work 40 hours a week, are in school, and still want to have any life outside of work, management brushes away your problems because they "need" someone to be in at 7pm even though you started at 6am 16. I requested to keep my schedule, and only do 40 hours a week because I started school, the only thing I had requested for me alone in my 3 years being there, and they decided to change my schedule anyway and continue to guilt trip me for not being there to support them enough 17. Not enough pay for the amount of work, comparable pay for similar positions in my area was $25/hr and way less work, and pay at my site was $18/hr 18. location specific non-disclosure agreements make it almost impossible to get Union assistance for management problems 19. Fired a manager for poor performance, hired another manager from offsite that didn't understand the work, didn't promote from within. This happened 3 times. Each manager came in with "big plans" to change things, make them more efficient, etc. each plan fails, and they never listen to employee feedback. 20. A manager literally told me that they believed we needed to be micromanaged because we spent too long walking back to our crew area to take lunch (5 min walk minimum) 21. Scheduled lunches and breaks by person to limit contact with coworkers, because we tried to have a good time at work, even though we always finished the task easily and before deadlines, and with more "efficiency" than their plan

ABM does not care about its workers at all. Especially its poor black and brown employees. ABM tried to pay me LESS than the Federal minimum wage and only agreed to pay me what it owed me after I threatened to file a wage complaint. Im still waiting on the check. I may have to take them to court. My hourly rate was $10 an hour. In training we were told the toll tickets we incurred while traveling to American Airlines to have our testing, fingerprinting and badges made would be covered by ABM. I left the ABM facility, while still on the clock, and drove out to DFW Airport / American Airlines office to get the badge and fingerprints completed. I had to drive through the toll. I remembered I had not gotten the ticket stamped. ABM refused to cover the toll. They tried to push the cost to me. Evidently they have a policy of pushing the toll Costs incurred by new hires back on to new hires even when we were on the clock when we recieved the toll and were traveling for a company function at the company request. I reached out to ABM managers and execs repeatedly and they were very dismissive of me. I was also told by a few managers and HR personnel I would not be paid for the toll. The toll ticket increased to $19.00 and they still refused to pay it. After I notified them I would file a wage complaint with the DOL (Department of Labor) office for a reduction in my wages due to my having to pay their expense they agreed to pay me but i am still waiting on the check. Per the U.S. Department of labor it is illegal to push the toll charges onto workers when it number one is the responsibility of the company and number 2 it drops the pay of the worker to below the federal minimum wage. In addition to having to fight for ny fair wage, the drive to the airport, searching for parking in their garage and walking through that concrete garage in sweltering heat or freezing cold, up flights of stairs, across roads with traffic and through the airport to start the shift (for $10.00 an hour is way way to low.) Its very exhausting. And they demand you rush cleaning on those planes too. They require you to clean so many planes per night from top to bottom, front to back. They require you to clean inside the overhead cabins and within the seats and seat pockets and underneath the seats. That's a lot of bending and standing and twisting and to be rushing through the night.