Merry Maids reviews

3.1

52% would recommend to a friend

(587 total reviews)
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Regan Stokes

70% approve of CEO

42% positive business outlook

Merry Maids has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 587 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Merry Maids employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Management & Consulting industry (3.7 stars).

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587 reviews
1.0
Jul 22, 2015

Horrible Place To Work

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Pros

get to leave early "sometimes"

Cons

By far the worst job I ever had.. You work so hard for a pay check that isn't worth it. Then you have to drive your own car & you do get for reimbursement that can't even full your tank. You get paid by percentage at first I thought sounds good haha then you find out the payment is taxed 3 times before you get your percentage.. I quit after a month. Definitely not worth the pain I feel when I go home everyday

1.0
Jun 1, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

lovely co-workers, not being stuck in an office

Cons

I only worked for Merry Maids for a week before I caught on that everything I was told when I was hired was misrepresented at best. I was willing to put in the hours, deal w/ the commute and put my life on the back burner based on what I was promised, but I discovered that the pay was very little and that in order to even make minimum wage, I'd be expected to work at a very unrealistic pace and cut corners for 10-12 hours a day. I just received my 1st check and it is wrong. I imagine they won't ever fix it. I spent more in gas than I made during that one week.

1.0
Feb 10, 2013

Don't work here!

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Some lovely co-workers who were very sweet and fun to work with. Gave some basic entry-level experience in the field. Some areas serviced were beautiful, ie country areas, farms, etc.

Cons

Terrible pay--a 15% commission from a portion of the cost. This usually equals about ten to twenty dollars for a house. Commission decreases with the amount of time taken, so a house that needs 4 hours (most people work alone or in a team of 2) will wind up putting less money in your pocket--a lose-lose situation (if you take longer but do a great job, you make much less, but if you rush and do a poor job you will be taken down to minimum wage for the whole day's work--not just that one house!). LONG commutes. Up to two hours a day in driving. NO breaks, aside from driving from one house to another. Long work days much of the time. Required to be at the office no later than 7:30 am, and often i was not getting home until 6 pm or later (usually later). No recognition for outstanding performance, only punishment for poor performance. System of earning paid days off is convoluted and impossible to understand--you must achieve a number of goals to earn 3 paid days per quarter. There was a great deal of dishonesty in their advertisements for their open positions. I was under the assumption, from materials I'd read, that they gave tuition reimbursement for college classes, and was told that people could earn up to $700 a week. There was NO tuition reimbursement; new employees don't get benefits until they have been there 6 months; and nobody made a lot. My last week there I worked 48 hours and only brought home $272. Even weeks where i worked 60 hours i only brought home $450. The rate of pay changed every week. Some weeks I earned $10 an hour, but most I only earned $7.25 an hour.

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