TruGreen reviews

Painfully micromanaged. Either your Marketing Manager or someone else is always jumping down your throat. Many things are hidden from you. For example, when I started I was told this was door to door with some calling. i was told I would get a gas card with such and such commission percentages. The money was made out to be a really important thing. However, they fail to let you know that when August and September hit, you will either be A. pulled in to call expanded services at 1/10 of your possible commission percentages which will then make you hourly and they will pay you chinese overtime and take away your gas card. B. Get laid off and told that they will hire you back in the spring when business picks up. or C. Stay at door to door (easily the best choice) and sell at a time of the year when business is way down. While I cant speak for all, and I have heard stories, I can say that many marketing managers in Trugreen are degrading and disrespectful to their employees. The "Do Right" model that Servicemaster employs is apparentally not involved here. The hrs are long and the compensation/praise you get for hard work is minimal. If you have a family, DO NOT I repeat...DO NOT take this job. You will never see your kids and will have very little time for your wife. You'll generally work six days a week 10 hrs a day (6 or so on saturdays).

Horrible management that seems to be hired more on who is friends with who and not how competent they are to lead, and awful regional staff that manages from behind a desk and not the field. Technicians and sales people are treated like peons and slaves. Complaints are ignored, thinking outside the box is frowned upon because 'it's not the Trugreen way'. Problems go unfixed for weeks, months, sometimes even years. Overtime pay for technicians is a joke. Goals are ridiculously unachievable unless a person enjoys working 12 to 14 hour days six days a week. Spray techs are often pushed to make unethical choices regarding spray treatments to customer's properties so the daily production goal can be hit. Sales people are pushed to sell, sell, sell regardless of proper expectations or honesty. There's little room for advancement in the company, unless you're willing to compromise your integrity.