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FirstService Residential

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Frustrating - Manager FirstService Residential Employee Review

3.0
Oct 17, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Benefits, pay, some work/life balance, culture

Cons

The lure is there are lots of departments to support managers. The reality is the departments do the minimal amount to get by and do not help enough. Example. Ask for a ledger on an account you know someone is actively looking at to save time. Result: Being sent instructions on how to pull it yourself. Example. Ask for assistance getting urgent invoice paid. Result: Get told you are asking wrong person, ask another person. Since it is marked urgent and you know who can actually help, why not copy that person to help speed it up? Example: Ask to set up new vendor. Result: Get sent forms and instructions how to do it. If your job is working with vendors, why is this being pushed back to the manager? Example. Invoice submitted correctly by vendor for payment and been working for community for years. Rejected for payment. Why? Now FSR billing format changed. Result: Manager told to reach out to vendor to get them to change their billing format. If there is a Vendor Services department, why aren't they managing this aspect? Example: vendor's insurance certificate expires. Result: Manager told to contact vendor to have their broker send the COI to Vendor Services and reminded it cannot be sent from the vendor to Vendor Services or the manager because no one but the broker is trusted to not forge the document. After several months of runaround, I am far behind on actually performing the actual management part of the job and simply resort to putting out fires instead. Clients are frustrated and so am I.

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FirstService Residential Response
8mo
Thank you for taking the time to share such detailed feedback. We’re glad to hear you’ve had positive experiences with our benefits, pay, culture, and aspects of work/life balance. We’re truly sorry to learn that your experience with cross-department support left you feeling frustrated and overwhelmed—that is not the level of partnership we strive to provide. We want you to know that we’ve recently conducted listening sessions to better understand many of the challenges you outlined, and we’ve been implementing action plans to improve support in these areas. Of course, it takes a team effort, and your willingness to share feedback—both with your leadership team and through the associate experience surveys—helps drive us in the right direction. Thank you again for your insights and the work you contributed during your time here. Feedback like yours is invaluable as we continue refining processes and strengthening collaboration across teams. - Kaitlin Buccheri, Communications and Engagement Manager

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FirstService Residential Response
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Thank you for taking the time to write a thoughtful review! As we grow, we are finding new ways to scale our processes and procedures ESPECIALLY when it comes to change management. We appreciate hearing about your personal experience with us and hope you continue to share your valuable feedback with our leadership teams! - Kaitlin Buccheri, Sr. Communications and Engagement Manager
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