Waldinger Reviews

Too laid back and not enough solid structure. Not everybody is held to the same standard

I was told a new management job was opening up. I quote: "99% chance you will manage our new division in a few months." I however never did and it never happen. The new Division Never arrived and there was no real plan for it. Was used as a sales gimmick to get me on board. They said find us a building or property to build one, find us a company looking to sell. We need a division here. Which was all a lie and no intentions of doing this ever on their end. I left a decent management/estimator job at a smaller mom and pop for this one "make believe job" with make believe career growth potential. Now after years in the field and working my way up to management I am back down to Senior Service Tech Status working back out in the field. They did this too more than a couple people I later found out. Including a friend that was given the same exact lie of a manager job 6 months after me while I was still working there for the same make believe job and same exact town! Management lies and cheats customers and employees to keep profit margins up for bonuses. As the salary for management is some of the lowest paid in the field before they receive bonus pay. They will work you to death and use all kinds of B.S. tactics like giving unrealistic stats to make the company look way better than it is. They constantly break labor rules making employees work 24-30+ hours strait without sleep and 80-90hrs a week. When they hire you they say the work load is way different than reality. The managers will not answer phones when things like this are happening and if they do they have zero knowledge on how to get the right remedy's in motion. They also oversell work they have no way of actually doing or the man power to do it. Sales guys are completely motivated by commission and will lie to customers to make more money. Telling techs to just write down you did the job even though you didn't. If they even send qualified techs to began with. They often send tradesmen and plumbers to Journeyman Sold Jobs, which is a complete no no in the Union. Then when you take this concern to upper management they don't care and say they just need that profit margin up for the monthly "contribution" to the accountant owners. This is by far one of the worst Corporate Companies to work for. My experience here has even ruined the words Opportunity and Acquisition to the point if I hear it I cringe! The tactics the Company use are pretty simple. 1. It is owned by accountants with ZERO Knowledge in the Building Trades. 2. They use tons of office Jobs, Coordinators, Secretaries, Sales Teams, Strategic Account Management teams (SAMS) teams analytic teams and low, middle and upper Managers, for sales and a showoff tactic to customers and potential employees, that increase overhead beyond sustainable levels. My area office had 3 office workers for 5 field employees and constantly pushing to cover overhead cost. All these Office "Jobs" and yet Technicians are the one doing estimates, parts ordering and pricing to customers and customer coordination after the company gets the customer "locked" in. All that bloated support is never used after its shown off to make the sale. 3. I would predict that the Owners " accountants " will sell the company after they inflate the share value with these type of insane number bending strategies they use. Look Up Elliott Management and "vulture capitalism”. This is the same type of stuff.