Not good to work for. Unless you like being harassed. - Laborer Field Work Tetra Tech Employee Review

1.0
Oct 13, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Being outdoors and helping the environment are some of the perks of this company. If you don't mind being away from your family, you can work long hours and make a good check.

Cons

You're away from your family and stuck in hotels for long periods of time. The hours can be long and often hazardous as you have to deal with large equipment and gases. The employees in the field play dumb games like tagging people in the privates, making homosexual and racist jokes. Advising the supervisor is considered drama so it is pointless to try. The employees in the field also threaten, intimidate and harrass you for being a new guy. Often they will find something that you dislike and pick on you til you blow up. The company is supposed to take you to the store in provided field trucks but when they get off work, the amount of drinking prevents that. They consider after work to be family time and if you do not participate in family time, you are considered anti social. My family would never treat me like above, how about yours? I've been sexually harassed on the job and told thay if I didn't start doing things back, it will continue. This amounts to hazing and supervisors are complacent.

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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
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Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Hired as a "fire-hire," the position is disaster based and 100% travel so you get to travel domestically paid for by the company. When working, pay is good, you can make a lot very quickly with overtime. Being part-time, I can take time-off whenever I want for as long as I want.

Cons

For my position, no natural disasters = no work. Living out of a hotel for months SUCKs and burn-out is real as you could be working 7 days a week, 12 hours a day for months on end. There's no added compensation for taking on an on-site lead position even though the workload triples. As a part-time employee, you have to pay more for benefits when working versus not working. There's a huge disconnect between part-time employees in the field and the full-time employees that do office work and upper management. Part-time workers are not prioritized unless they're willing to do whatever is thrown at them without complaints. The employee turn-over rate in the field is crazy.

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