The Meat Grinder - Anonymous employee SavATree Employee Review

1.0
22 Jul 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The company and its ways of operations will harden your soul. This place will help you build tough skin, similar to sand paper. You go in whole and get shoved through the system and by the end you feel a piece of you has been taken away (meat grinder). A good place to do a working try out as an arborist/sales person. Some perks; they help you build your credit score by helping pay for a car you purchase for them, cell, laptop (usually from the last person that quit or got fired). This company will test your health and well being, you may actually age while here 5x faster than usual.

Cons

The training isn't really training; if you are interested in being berated, threatened, and insulted by your sales manager (when and if he/she is around that month) then this is the place for you. Allow all your hopes, dreams, and aspirations to get crushed by local, middle, and upper management on a daily, day in day out battle for little to no $ money. The best kick to the jewels is the "black out days" of vacation; March to September no one can take vacation, unless you own the company (yachting in France, drinking expensive wine), you are a manager (snorkeling in the Keys and bragging), or a favorite lead arborist (two weeks vacation in a different country) The treatment: let's just say dogs at the aspca get better treatment. No office support, the administrative assistants, and the field crews all feel that you work for them, a lot of Chiefs and not enough Indians. There are ten line managers for every little thing here. You go out on sales calls with your part time manager, they complain you didn't pitch all 6 service lines to a potential client, then on the next one you pitch All service lines and then they yell "you are not listening to the client's concerns, it's a constant changing expectation. don't work here longer than 2 years. It's for first year out of college kids that aren't prepared to get smoked by this backwards company. This place at times is offensive, insulting, and is a real HR department's nightmare. They also lower your pay if they want at any time.

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SavATree Response
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Thank you for taking the time to leave a review and for your years of contribution to SavATree. We are honored by your recognition of SavATree as a leader in the industry. Our success is driven by the dedication, expertise, and commitment of team members across the organization, and we appreciate your role in that journey. We also appreciate your feedback regarding the challenges of attracting and retaining great production talent. Building strong field teams continues to be a priority across our organization, and we remain focused on investing in recruiting, training, development, and career growth opportunities to support our branches. Thank you again for your support and for sharing your experience. We wish you continued success in your career.
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