Ecolab reviews

The year I spent with Ecolab I was tied to my phone 24-7. No training. I lost a lot of respect from my customers because I was never given the resources and training to do my job. I learned more in one month working for EL's competitor then I did in one year with EL and all their training programs. EL breeds a culture of unmet promises. Every area manager, district manager, and territory manager I met had no problem telling anyone anything they wanted to hear and then conviently forgetting the promises that were made. Never expect your manager to do what he tells you he will do. Never expect pay outs on contests and sales objectives, and don't expect any compensation for gas and other expenses no matter how many times your boss promises to pay you for them. Do however, expect them to sue you if you go to the competition and take a sh-t load of business from them.

You will never have a personal life again. You will spend a couple of years of "on the job" training not knowing what you are doing and your customers expecting you to. You will spend twice as much time fixing broken things than selling, yet selling is all the company wants you to do. The longer you stick around in the same position, the less money you will make. You will make collection calls; you will wear every hat imaginable and if you can't get all your work done in a reasonable amount of time your manager will tell you to work evenings and weekends to get caught up and try to frighten you about the economy. Upper management is totally out of touch with what the field personnel deal with, nor do they care. As long as the CEO get's his 7 figure bonus, he can let 1000 people go and not blink about it. This is not a company in any financial trouble, this company managed a modest growth in 08 and yet laid off 1000 people including all the installers who put the equipment into the customers' kitchen for you. Why? Greed, the only answer....