Waste Management Hires You Then Gives You Lay-down Days with NO PAY!! - Driver WM Employee Review

1.0
28 Mar 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Fellow Employees, good benefits if you can afford the with the Lay-down days!

Cons

Waste Management hires you and says that you will be guaranteed to work at the least 45-50 hours a week and most likely more than that. Once they get you in, they start telling you work is slow and give you lay-down days, which means you don't come to work and you don't get paid! They do this to many employees and are giving them at least two days off a week UNPAID, leaving families unable to pay their mortgages and bills! You can't even work somewhere else because they tell you that if they need you last minute at 3:30am then you must come in by 5am, so one is waiting and praying they get called in so they can be able to put food on the table or pay their mortgage because they can't plan to work anywhere else. This company is a DISGRACE, and does not care about their employees! If work is slow and you are a full time employee, they should find something for you to do, not tell you not to come to work and not pay you! This is a Fortune 500 company and they treat their employees like garbage and don't care how their employees will survive and support their families, they just care about profits! Don't leave a good job for Waste Management because you and your family will end up on the streets! I can't believe a giant corporation like Waste Management treats their employees like this and does not care about the lives of the families and children they are affecting!! Business can't be booming everyday and if every employer decided to do this to their employees, half of the states population would be out of work! Disgrace! Disgrace! Disgrace!

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Cons

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WM Response
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Thank you for taking the time to share this! We’re so glad to hear that your experience here has been a good one. It’s feedback like yours that reminds us why creating a workplace where people feel respected, supported, and proud of what they do is so important. We're grateful to have you on the team.
1.0
14 Apr 2026
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Pros

to be honest no pros.

Cons

Working here was stressful, I was starting to deal with anxiety and panic attacks especially when dealing with my Supervisor who was awful since the moment he arrived. I'm one to always be respectful no matter what but at some point you loose respect and you can't allow anyone to disrespect doesn't matter if he's your boss. They fire the hard working people while keeping the ones that do more damage in the work place. Ones that could hurt other employees yet nothing was done while firing the good ones. The Manager that arrived before I was let go was even worst! I wasn't sure what I needed to let her know or not know because since day one when I communicated with her she just brushed me off and never got back to me about anything or she told me to take her off all the emails she was attached to. Then threaten me on an email if I didn't show up to work when I had requested a day off. I mean there's a lot more I can say about both of them. Now about HR... after I was let go I requested termination documents and personnel file in January I waited a month to do a follow up got the run arounds then I was told they were going to get back to me. I waited and did another follow up they ignored my email I did another follow up and got ignored again we are now in April still nothing.

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WM Response
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Your experience matters to us and we are so glad you took the time to share it. We value all feedback and take it seriously because it helps us learn and improve. We’re sorry things haven’t felt right, and your feedback helps us understand where we need to do better. Our people are at the heart of everything we do, and we’re committed to growing as leaders and creating a workplace where everyone feels supported and valued.
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