Micro-management at it’s finest - Sales Inspector Orkin Employee Review

1.0
Mar 2, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Company car, gas card, phone and iPad are given to you. They’re used and in bad shape, but you can use them.

Cons

You feel like someone is always watching you. Every step of the process is questioned, if not from management, then from the CSS’s. Questions come even if the person has been on the job for several years. Your GPS is monitored and brought up during check-ins. There have been times where management has looked the other way when work has been done poorly on a sold job in the field, but question why you were only at a house for 15 minutes. Management wonders why you have no appointments scheduled even though you make a serious effort to call and set up reinspections. They don’t want to hear reality for why there are no appointments and seem to encourage us to do inspections to make their numbers. There’s a lot more examples I can describe but don’t have the time. I would not recommend this company to my worst enemy.

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5.0
May 20, 2026
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Pros

Wonderful team, works with life situations, gas card, company vehicle, you get out what you put in

Cons

Scheduling can be tricky at times, can be stressful at times, some long work days, you get out what you put in

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1.0
Jun 16, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good pay, opportunities for sales depending on region

Cons

Orkin cares more about quantity over quality. If you care about doing a good job, don't work here. They will load your day up with tons of jobs and not enough time to do them (or do a good job anyways.) Management lives in their own bubble, and communicates poorly. I transfered to a new region and all services were a mess. Customers who have had Orkin for a year plus had homes still infested with pests. Prior techs hadn't cleaned any cobwebs, never cleaned webbing off siding or eaves. It was embarrassing. Commercial services weren't any better. I believe prior techs were just scanning stations and leaving. Orkin only cares if you punch through reports and collect money. If you also bring up customers that are being overcharged, management will never fix that either. Benefits also weren't great and quite expensive. Manager would also use slurs like the R-word despite knowing I had an autistic child. Just a gross place with gross values.

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