You Will Always Have a Target On Your Back - Driver WM Employee Review

1.0
Aug 15, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

There is always work available.

Cons

Truly disgusting company. Big Brother is always watching you. If you stop for more than a few minutes be prepared to get questioned by your route manager as to why you are sitting idle. They don't want to hear that you are caught in traffic, a container blocked, foul weather, or god forbid you have to go to the bathroom. This is company is all about productivity. Profits before people. Drivers are not involved in incident investigations, trucks in major disrepair (writing up things that are broken only to get the truck back the next day un-repaired and be told to "drive it", route managers asking drivers to dump recycling loads in with MSW because they don't want to send out an extra truck, safety concerns repeatedly reported to route managers and maintenance and they disregard. Be prepared to not have AC. Staff and trucks are always shorthanded. Routes are doubled and sometimes tripled up. The "points system" will surely get your fired because Drive Cam is "always right". Maintenance is cheap, the often use, used parts to put on trucks so they don't have to buy new. Containers are in disrepair and often are rotting out and leaking. Customers being lost due to high, non-competitive pricing (commercial & residential).

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5.0
Jun 15, 2026
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Pros

Great pay and benefits Leadership wants you to succeed and move up in the company.

Cons

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WM Response
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Thank you for taking the time to share this! We’re so glad to hear that your experience here has been a good one. It’s feedback like yours that reminds us why creating a workplace where people feel respected, supported, and proud of what they do is so important. We're grateful to have you on the team.
1.0
Jul 14, 2026
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Pros

I honestly can't think of any good points about WM.

Cons

Lying management Low pay Lots of employees with nothing to do, then others doing all the work... great place for the lazy and unambitious Promotions based on tenure and apple polishing, not merit Out of touch c suite No ethics or integrity HR protects lying management at the expense of rank and file Lying management, again

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