3 Jan 2024
Olameter Reviews
3.0
48% would recommend to a friend
Jan Peeters
62% approve of CEO
54% positive business outlook
Olameter has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 146 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Olameter employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Energy, mining, utilities industry (3.7 stars).
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146 reviews
1.0
2 Apr 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
You get to work with some great people. The job itself is relatively easy. Company car was a nice perk. 3 weeks of vacation.
Cons
They will over work you with zero appreciation. The pay is terrible for the work you will perform. There really aren't raises when you're at management level. You will be expected to work 10-12 hours a day, and on the weekends with no incentive to you. They will "ask" you to travel to other sites that are struggling to help them out, with very little compensation. They expect you to always be available to work whenever they need you to. Yes, you will get vacation time, but it is never truly a vacation, as you will have to take calls and put out fires while trying to relax. Upper management will make you feel guilty when you do get the chance to use YOUR vacation. You will be put in charge of poorly negotiated contracts and expect you to make it successful and profitable. You will be held responsible when the site falls behind. It is very difficult to find qualified employees who are willing to work for a low paying job with terrible health insurance. Turnover is ridiculously high, and there isn't much you can do about it since it is mostly due to the awful benefits and pay. If your dream is to be over worked and under paid, then Olameter is the place for you!! It's a joke....
4.0
6 Sept 2014
I thought this was a great place to work. Too bad there's nothing left to do.
Former employee, more than 10 years
Rockville, MD
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
In this job I got to drive to many parts of Montgomery County, the District of Columbia, and even Prince George's County to read electric meters for PEPCO. I got to see many parts of the Washington area that I never would have seen otherwise. It didn't happen often, but occasionally I would get a route that could be finished sooner than eight hours and when I got back to the office, I would still get paid for eight hours.
Cons
You also have to drive to those same places to read meters in LOUSY weather. Not only did rain make your job uncomfortable, but it also made it harder to use field glasses which was essential for your job. The job required you to read meters in back yards, and when nobody was home and the back yards are locked, your job got harder. (This is where the field glasses came in.) In the heyday of Accu-Read there were times we would be working six day weeks REGULARLY for most of the year and we would have to beg management for occasional two-day weekends. Nobody knew that we would get nostalgic for that the last two years! PEPCO added smart meters to the route, and at first they were just harder to read---but eventually those meters came on-line and they were taken off our routes, which started getting shorter, and shorter, and shorter. Eventually, the inevitable happened---we were laid off because with all the new smart meters PEPCO didn't need contract meter readers anymore.
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