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Laughably Unorganized Management - Field Investigator Project Resources Group Employee Review

1.0
Sep 8, 2022
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Pros

The pay was fairly decent.

Cons

Management was laughably unorganized. I would have conversations with my manager, bring up concerns, and find possible solutions to these problems, only for the conversation to be immediately forgotten. For instance, we had to keep our claim's statues updated regularly. However, there were only three different statuses that we were allowed to use. So, I brought it up to my manager for what to do when the claim doesn't fit into any of the three allowed statuses. We came to a conclusion that he would get with the higher ups on adding more statuses and for the meantime to just make a note of it in the claim. So I did that, then I got a very angry email from him berating me for having claims in "incorrect" statuses. The previous conversation seemed to have never happened and my manager never got with the higher ups about additional statuses. That's only one example of many. I was alone in my market for the longest time, and I would struggle. The training was non-existent and consisted of trial and error. I would do what I thought I had to do, until I got an angry email or phone call telling me how wrong I was, despite never being shown otherwise. I reached out to my manager on multiple occasions for assistance in my area, and was constantly told that they would send someone out the following week to help. That never happened, and this was a regular thing. And when I did get "assistance" it was just someone looking over my claims and making a list of what needed to get done, like I wasn't already aware of it. It would be like a mechanic needing assistance replacing a car's engine, and someone saying, "Alright, what you need to do is get a new engine. Glad I could help. Bye." I would be on the road for 8+ hours a day sometimes, and would get behind on my office work. I spoke with my manager about it and about possible assistance, and all he would say was "Well, all my other investigators are on the road too and they're still submitting more claims than you." And then to just be told to work on the weekends if we get behind, and receive no additional pay for working said weekend. The most consistent thing about the job was the non-professional and verbally abusive emails we would get on a near daily basis. They quickly drained any and all passion that I had for the job. It got to the point where I would rush through claims just to get them submitted, just to avoid getting an email suggesting how lazy I was and how little I must be working. However, PRG finally did hire another investigator. Then our main client left PRG for our competitor. I don't have any proof on the matter, but I do suspect that this client left because PRG put all of this client's damages in the entire state on one investigator who PRG refused to help. This resulted in less claims being submitted, and less money being recouped for the client. So instead of PRG learning from their mistake, they downsized the employees in the market, let me go and put all of the remaining client's claims on one investigator again, who I'm sure isn't getting assistance.

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Cons

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Pros

If you like independence, this job has plenty of it. As an Outside Plant Damage Investigator, you're largely left alone to manage your own schedule, plan your day, and work your claims without someone looking over your shoulder every five minutes. My supervisor and I officially spoke about once every two weeks, though sometimes it felt less like a management strategy and more like a witness protection program. The work itself is genuinely interesting. Every claim is different, and much of the job involves investigating incidents, tracking down contractors, piecing together what actually happened, and recovering damages for utility companies. If you've ever thought, "I wish Sherlock Holmes collected invoices instead of solving murders," this may be your dream job.

Cons

My immediate supervisor worked remotely from Iowa and was extremely difficult to reach. It was obvious she had a lot on her plate with her children, and I certainly sympathize with that. Unfortunately, when you finally did get her on the phone, it often sounded like you had accidentally called Chuck E. Cheese during a fire drill. Getting a clear answer was...challenging. Her supervisor, who I believe was based in Indiana, was easier to contact but not necessarily more helpful. Our clients generally disliked him, and the feeling appeared to be mutual. On one occasion, I spent considerable time rebuilding a damaged relationship with a client only to watch management bulldoze all that goodwill in record time. Imagine spending hours building a sandcastle only for your own teammate to immediately cannonball into it—that was the general experience. The guidance from management also depended on which manager answered the phone. Ask one manager how to handle a claim and you'd get one answer. Ask the other and you'd get the exact opposite. If you asked them both together, I suspect reality itself might have collapsed. The Vice President of Outside Plant Damage also made quite an impression. The first and only time I met him, he made comments I considered sexually inappropriate and discussed getting hammered and going to strip clubs—in front of one of our clients. It was certainly a bold client relations strategy. I can't say I'd recommend it. To make matters worse, many client contracts seemed to be written without much thought as to how claims would actually be investigated. Investigators were often expected to perform miracles with limited authority, incomplete information, and clients who had never been told what documentation they needed to provide.

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