Service manager - Service Manager Cortland Employee Review

1.0
Jan 23, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

The only pro I can think of is I made some great friends while there. Service technicians are a great group of people and they always look out for each other

Cons

They have zero appreciation for family life. They expect you to be on call, but not go past 40 hours for the week regardless of how many times you had to interrupt your life and how many trips you had to make to the property while on call. The pay is mediocre, but they expect you to do the job of several craftsman including pest control, flood cleanup, carpet cleaning, and several other normally contract out items. This would be fine if they paid their employees adequately, but they do not and they still expect you to do it all. Management has no idea what they’re doing and all of their decisions are based solely on how to save them a dollar and not for the better of the property. They renovate every community, several of which are located in horrible neighborhoods, and then they jack up the rent and make everyone mad hoping they will leave. For the renovations they use 100% China sourced knock off parts because they can save a lot of money, but the service teams end up paying the price because everything breaks immediately and we are left holding the bag. Management decides who will succeed and who will be fired based on how they feel that day, and make their decisions based on a persons personality rather than job performance and skills. Health insurance is horrible with extremely high deductibles and high co-pays. Everyone is micromanaged to the point where you want to throw in the towel and say forget it, because you don’t get a chance to actually do your job the right way. There is a high turnover of staff here due to the fact that they are not appreciated and the level of manipulation and the deception is not tolerated.by employees.

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Cortland Response
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Thanks for your review. Obviously, I wish your experience was a different one. Since you took the time to describe some pain points, I will address some of them here although I’d rather address them in person. I understand it can be hard to manage being on call for our residents and also prioritizing your family. We are extremely thankful for our Service Technicians who so selflessly give up their time to ensure that our residents have the best service possible from sun up to sun down when an emergency arises. I would encourage you to speak to your Community Manager about changing the rotations of Service Technicians on call so you can spend more time with your family or consider switching to a position where you’re not on call when one becomes available. As far as the services we provide, bringing them in house allows us to provide better services for our residents and limit the number of people going in and out of our residents’ homes. In the same manner, with the objective to produce the best materials for our residents, we design and produce many of the building materials used in our communities, which are made not only in China, but around the world. Our materials are produced using the same manufacturing facilities as the largest material producers in the market. This way, we provide unique, Cortland-specific products for our residents. Lastly, we pride ourselves on making people decisions based on each individual’s capability to understand, live, and perform well in our culture. We realize we don’t operate like other apartment management companies – but doing things differently is what sets us apart. Again, I would love to continue this conversation with you in person. I look forward to speaking with you. -Priscila Mattingly, Chief People Officer priscila.mattingly@cortlandpartners.com | 678.329.3560

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