Republic Services Reviews

Pros

Good room for growth at republic!!!!

Cons

None that I can think of at the moment

Pros

Driving skills patience endurance safety

Cons

Nothing I’m up to speed

Pros

Republic is a good company

Cons

each facility is run independent of the main hdqt

Pros

Can make good money but little to No growth opportunities available. Use this job as a stepping stone.

Cons

Pay could be a little higher

Pros

The reasons is there because I want to have something doing reasonable working with beizy time always important.

Cons

For me challenges is the way that you can succeed from we're you started.

Pros

If you need a job

Cons

Everything. The culture is terrible and archa5

Pros

There was always plenty of work. Not too difficult to speak with upper management.

Cons

Treated awful! I worked for JRM for years. Republic bought them out. They cut our pay 38% but told us not to worry, the 1st year we will get bonuses (as long as we stay) that will keep us at the pay we were used to. I got the 1st bonus (few hundred dollars). Never got the others. I inquired and was told I was not eligle because I worked overtime. My overtime pay did not touch what I was used to making. I spoke w/upper management and was offered a lateral move to sales. (I wanted nothing to do w/that). I can't make my mortgage payments. There goes college for my daughter. Nothing but lies. And, we went from great (free) health insurance to expensive and awful insurance. Mail order pharmacy only. My daughter never got her meds on time. My wife was on the phone daily fighting them. HR did nothing to help. Barely enough staff to work. Running employees into the ground. Broken trucks. I was 5 years with JRM who turned into Republic for almost 1 year.

Pros

You learn how horrible Senior Leaders (Manager, Directors, Supervisors) are and the closed mind mentality they have, that you can recognize it when you go work at another company.

Cons

1. Run by Dinosaurs Many of the Senior level managers, directors, supervisors are stuck in their old ways. They started to promote younger managers with no Management experience to enforce these Dinosaur way of doing things. So the cycle of old ways stays and keeps going for future employees to come. 2. Closed minded and not open to new ideas There are many times when you try to show them new better efficient ways to do things and they don't want to change. They don't want to have remote employees. people are required to work in the office but still attend online meetings from their desk on their laptop. Doesn't make sense. 3. Huge Turnover In one year I have seen many employees leave because the company is run by dinosaurs 4. Need to be a Fake Person to survive here and move up You need to present yourself as a fake person and not go against the Dinosaur management, even if means things get done the wrong way, the old way, so the company grows in a slow slow way 5. Your job is not secure here. I have seen some of the BEST employees who worked countless overtime to get the job done, I have seen them get fired for one little mistake. I mean tiny mistake. You think, this person does an amazing job, their never going to get fired. But they do. and if you are not a fake person who is friends with the dinosaur management (Directors, Managers, Supervisors) I have seen senior management make a mistake and they look for someone to take the fall. or if you are doing such great job but you make other people look bad, then they will talk bad about you in order to get you fired 6. Useless Meetings/waste of time They are many times when a simple email is enough to cover a topic. But they prefer to waste your time and still expect you to work overtime without extra pay to get the job done. You are expected to attend many meeting even if it has nothing to do with your work. Many times, the Senior Managers, Directors, Supervisors, are feeling bored or lonely so they create mandatory meetings to attend. 7. No Training in place. You need to figure out how to do your job. there are no training guides. You reach out to people for help or guidance but they give you a GENERALISED answer that doesn't explain anything, so you waste a lot of time trying to figure out how to do your job. All they say is you will figure it out as you go. COMPLETE WASTE OF TIME 8. Not an organized company. A company that has been around this long should know how to streamline work to be more efficient, better training, stop having useless meetings.

Pros

Great Company Good immediate supervisors Decent Pay Good Benefits

Cons

Horrible employees in maintenance that have been there too long, have bad attitudes toward supervision, toward the company, toward other employees, and did very poor work or little work at all, then get mad when you are supposed to be off the clock because you cannot stay to help them, even though they are "more qualified" and cuss and smart mouth you when you can stay.

Pros

The people are great and they care. Compensation and benefits were great. Training was good and regularly updated/distributed. It seemed to be a well run company, overall.

Cons

Typical waste company shortcomings made customer retention difficult: (1) Operational failures due to down trucks or low driver staff (2) Regular price increases often pulled forward in time to meet a short term revenue objective.