Bad franchise - Maid Merry Maids Employee Review

1.0
Mar 28, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Get to work independently or with just one other person. You only work M-F from 9-5 with weekends off. Its an active physical job so your not sitting at a desk all day staring at a computer while you get fat.

Cons

Pays less than minimum wage. You have to use your own car as a work vehicle without getting compensated for wear & tear or insurance. If you were in an accident and the Merry maids magnet is on your car your personal car insurance won't cover it. You were expected to pay for your own business vehicle insurance & bonding. If you had no jobs for the day you were asked to go out into the neighborhood & disperse ads to people free of pay. Our paychecks were always short & sometimes they didn't pay you at all & always had an excuse for why. The owners are all religious people who make you pray before and after work. They preached god than paid you below the min. Wage. Pay is NOT hourly it is by the job. Each job would pay about $25 each and take 3 or more hours plus drive time. Some days you were paid $25 for a whole days work. The home office was always out of cleaning supplies and they expect you to just buy your own even though they claim to supply everything at the interview. They required you to take a drug test and background check so I assumed my coworkers would all be drug free and without a record. I was wrong. One girl I had to work with had been to prison for assaulting a cop. Another girl stole pain pills from customers homes daily. I told my boss and they said " its hard to find someone who won't do these things". When they say all candidates are screened before employment they don't mean that they passed so never hire this place to clean your house. They just mean that they screened them. I saw one person get a slap on the wrist for stealing a customers TV, & another was caught sniffing a customers undies. This really happened.

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Cons

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Pros

When the customers tipped you.

Cons

Long hours, horrible mean coworkers. Lots of gossip. If you value yourself and your self worth do not work here. The girl who trained me my first day she expected me to know everything and be as fast as her. She would talk about me behind my back to the other girl we were teamed up with. The other girl was nice and understanding and she was part of the reason I didn’t quit after day one. This trainer girl was horrible! She ruined my self confidence and made me feel stupid. She got mad when I worked tomorrow only slow and got mad when I was too fasts. I have watched 3 new employees come and go and all the people that have been there for years treated them horribly and talked about them behind their back. I only stayed for as long as I did because of the job market being bad right now. This had to be the worst job I’ve had in my life! Also the manager will tell you the hours are 8am to 4pm with occupational 7pm off times but everyday we went over 4 pm. I had no life and my body hurt so bad. Please find another job because this one isn’t good!

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