First off the benefits are the absolute worst you can get. All the health plans have a $4000 deductible, a family can cost upwards of $1200 a month just for coverage! If I had a family, that would be more than half of my take home pay. More like 2/3 of it. $12.75 an hour isn't cutting it if you need health insurance. During summer it is brutal work. They overload you like crazy and if you go into overtime, I have had managers be angry with me. During summer you will average about 12-16 stops per day. Which is doable if you aren't doing good work. If you're doing a good job, you will go over unless they are small job or are all very close. They don't take drive time into consideration as much as they should. You are mandated to work one Saturday a month from 8-12 (or until you are done), which isn't that bad but is still a con. They expect a whole lot out of you for not a whole lot of return $12.75 an hour seems good until you are drenched in sweat in an attic hunting rats on a 105 degree day. I have had times where they just blatantly disregard your time, and it happened more often than it should have. The routes can be pretty big for one person and require a lot of driving and drive time in between jobs. The trucks have cameras in them that trigger if you hit the brakes too hard, turn too fast, or collide with another object (bad if you drive like a jerk or don't pay attention.) Management will repeatedly and often remind employees of their "at will" employment status especially during meetings or if you screw up. (In California you can quit and they can let you go at any time for any reason.) Quality Control is strict and sometimes unreasonable. Low pay for the industry, even for people that have been there for years.
