Short employment - House Cleaning Associate Merry Maids Employee Review

2.0
Jun 4, 2016
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Pros

Does offer some good perks such as tips, insurance after 90 days, office supplies good quality cleaning products and equipment. In office snacks and goodies, rewards for good work, weekly paychecks. They have a good training system. Can work by yourself or in a pair if you want after training. You have to really like to clean any conditions to stay with the job. It's not like cleaning your own house. It does teach you how to REALLY clean a house the right way. Very valuable knowledge to being a good housekeeper at home.

Cons

This is the deal breaker for this company as a whole not just in certain states. Where I worked (Missouri) they offered a $300 sign on bonus for any new employee which you get after 60 of employment. This was not mentioned to me at my interview. I asked about it later and they would not give it to me because I did not mention at the time of application. For the first three weeks your pay is based per hour in Missouri it starts at $8.25. A new person could be cleaning up to five homes a day at that wage!!! That is hard work on Kibbles and Bits pay. Most people do not last that long. You have to drive your own car on rotating days. You get mileage pay of .52 cents a mile and after three weeks your pay is based on a % of the cost of the job. Starting pay after three weeks is 30% of what Merry Maids takes after their bite. It averages out to 8,9 or 10 an hour depends the size of house. They are nice as pie in the beginning but after your hired they treat you like a slave. They say no weekends but try to get the weak hearted to work weekends or make the new people work it. If you want weekends off don't work here. Some days you will work longer than what is mentioned at the time of hire. There is no over time pay for it. You get done when you finish your last house. Have to deal with people's pets, kids and messy homes and lots of human and pet hair. Some homes are nice others are worse to down right nasty hoarder homes. Be careful if team leaders who take the tips and do not split them with you. Collect payment TOGETHER at the end of the job. Don't be told you have to load all the supplies by yourself while the team leader collects the pay.

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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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