Run! - Transportation Specialist Access Employee Review

1.0
Feb 19, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Easy job, co-workers are great. The PEOPLE make it great.

Cons

Where do I start? Too many problems to cover. Management at the branch-level is completely incompetent. They don't understand basic logistics. As a driver, you WILL get routed to places with incorrect addresses, no suite number, name of the company is wrong, incorrect or no contact info. You WILL get routed to random places with blank work orders. The Customer Service team WILL give you completely inaccurate info on your work orders. Shred rotation? Should I bring a bin or bag? Good luck, because there are so many codes in TR that every single person will pick a different one. There is ZERO consistency at this company throughout everything they do. You WILL have to work with a broken scanner from ~10 years ago that fails to scan and boxes WILL get lost. Bring this to the attention of your manager? He ignores it. Bring the issue of work order accuracy to your managers attention? He will ignore it. Need equipment? Ignored. You are 100% ON YOUR OWN. They WILL set you up to FAIL. And guess what? You take it upon yourself to fix these problems and manage the drivers because they are easy fixes to anyone with a brain and a modicum of motivation? Great! You will get a 2% raise. The only reason this company is still around is because of the ridiculous contracts they make their clientele sign. I know the customers. I talk to them every day. They love the drivers. They HATE Access, they HATE the Customer Service team, and they HATE management. And now management is trying to rush drivers through their routes to cut OT. Management has not done one thing that would facilitate the drivers getting their routes done quicker. And to top it off? Our branch doesn't collect $$ from roughly 70% of the shred rotations we do. How you ask? INCOMPETENCE.

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Access Response
7y
Thanks for posting your review here on glassdoor. This one is very harsh, but I understand that this is your experience here, and, well, that sucks. I would really love to learn more about where you work specifically. There will be no retaliation for providing this information - I feel one way about the items you describe: THEY NEED TO BE FIXED and I want to address them immediately, but we operate nearly 200 facilities in 6 countries, so not every Access facility has the same situation. Regardless, your situation sounds miserable - and I am sorry to hear that, but most importantly, I want to make it better. I will certainly have our operational leadership dig in to try to find out where we are having these kind of problems, so we can solve them. We are upgrading all the scanners across the company, and are investing/have invested nearly $1M on scanner upgrades. You need equipment that works to do your job, please know that I feel strongly about that, and I am sorry to hear that you have such crappy equipment. If your manager is ignoring the items you note (incorrect client information, equipment issues, etc), then that person doesn't sound like they are doing a great job - and certainly not providing great leadership. I am begging to you reach out to me and tell me where you work. I have never, and will never, retaliate against anyone who provides feedback. My intention is simply to improve the situation. And, if you're not comfortable reaching out to me, then PLEASE reach out to HR business partner for your area. PLEASE BE A PART OF THE SOLUTION more so than posting a random review here on glassdoor. This review is helpful in highlighting many issues, but I can assure you that not every Access facility is the same and the issues you describe need to be addresses and fixed, so, PLEASE let's solve these problems together. Let me be clear, the company doesn't need "saving" as you suggest, nor does the feedback fall on deaf ears - as evidenced by the fact that I am replying to your review. We are one of the fastest growing and most profitable business services companies in the world, and we invest everything back into the company to support future growth because, as I have said many times, growth provides opportunity. Thanks, again, for posting your review here, and I hope to hear from you (ralston@accesscorp.com), Rob

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