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Good people in the field but the office and especially management people are not holding up their end! - Fire Alarm Technician Tyco Employee Review

2.0
18 Jul 2013
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Pros

Wages and benefits are on par with industry although holiday structure needs to be brought into the 21st century. Good people to work with in the field . They do make a good fire alarm panel.

Cons

Company treats their field staff like crap and believes that any monkey can do their job. There is no company morale or motivation among employees. Staff, especially field staff, are constantly looking over their shoulders to see if they will be the next ones cut loose in the annual restructuring. Customers are always telling field techs that their office is a joke and that when they call, people in office do not know who they should talk to. Time to complete work is forever being cut down to the point that it becomes next to impossible to finish work on time and correctly. This could lead to people cutting corners to complete work on time so that they are not next on the chopping block. Not a good thing for your customers! There is an us and them attitude between the office/management staff and the field staff, it's almost like they work for different companies.

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Pros

SimplexGrinnell is a great company....at some branches. Great benefits. In most situations, guys work beyond what's normal, as a team, to achieve a common goal. Gas card, and take trucks home. constantly on the move.

Cons

The quality of inspectors are getting worse. The company thinks supplementing bodies for quality is a good idea. Have of these boneheads at this branch, can't identify what a deficiency is. Even the ones who are supposedly NICET qualified. The office is completely without structure, the service guys completely gaff off NFPA standards. Its really sad. I wont give SimplexGrinnell as a whole a bad name, as I've worked at several branches. The company is supposed to be about fire protection services. Instead, they are only focused on closing tasks to collect the money tied to them. whether the job is correct or not. Management should be ashamed at the level of "expertise" they hire. That's from the top down. I'm sure Bob Chauvin would not approve. The moral is awful as well. HR, what's that? The pay is laughable when you consider all the paperwork, logistics, sales and lead work they ask you to perform. Schedulers need training so more time is spent working, and less time is spent behind the windshield.

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