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      A single mans job - Route Manager Orkin Employee Review

      1.0
      1 Oct 2019
      Route manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Great coworkers Great money Getting to be outside of a building during the day.

      Cons

      Extraordinarily long hours, 12-15 hours a day. Little to no work/life balance. Don't dare take vacation time or you will be penalized for being unable to complete your work for the month. Harsh expectations come with this. Region only cares about numbers, not employees and this trickles down to the technician level. Near constant stress from this causes high employee turnover, leaving the branch perpetually short staffed leading to a dysfunctional and extremely demanding workplace.

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      Orkin Response
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      Thank you for taking the time voice your concerns, we value your opinion as well as your loyalty. We want to assure you that a productive and collaborative work environment is a top priority. Staffing has been a challenge recently and with unemployment rates at an all time low, finding qualified candidates continues to be a daunting task for our management teams. We recognize the amount of stress and time necessary to do quality service during our peak season and would like to first say “thank you” for your hard work and dedication as well as assure you we will continue to look more closely at staffing as well as areas we can improve through our Employee Satisfaction survey process as well as with local management to determine the best place to begin.

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      5.0
      1 June 2026
      Commercial manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      Wonderful place to work and meet chicks.

      Cons

      chicks sometimes smelled like pest control liquid

      1.0
      16 June 2026
      Pest control technician
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Good pay, opportunities for sales depending on region

      Cons

      Orkin cares more about quantity over quality. If you care about doing a good job, don't work here. They will load your day up with tons of jobs and not enough time to do them (or do a good job anyways.) Management lives in their own bubble, and communicates poorly. I transfered to a new region and all services were a mess. Customers who have had Orkin for a year plus had homes still infested with pests. Prior techs hadn't cleaned any cobwebs, never cleaned webbing off siding or eaves. It was embarrassing. Commercial services weren't any better. I believe prior techs were just scanning stations and leaving. Orkin only cares if you punch through reports and collect money. If you also bring up customers that are being overcharged, management will never fix that either. Benefits also weren't great and quite expensive. Manager would also use slurs like the R-word despite knowing I had an autistic child. Just a gross place with gross values.

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