Its a pay check - Termite Technician Orkin Employee Review

2.0
25 Aug 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Companies number one concern is to please stock holders. Meet awesome customers. Potential to sell your own jobs. Vacation policy is actually pretty good. If you start in January you get 80 hours plus 24 hours of floating holiday. Some of the people that you work with are characters and have good attitudes and are fun to work with.

Cons

Pay, Hours, Environmental hazards. Company expects you to act like star employee such as giving you tools/truck, meeting customer, completing paperwork, use proper treating specs, customer service and much more but they do not want to pay properly. Not sure if all companies do this but, the branch I was at played favorites. If you kiss up a lot then you get a good raise but, a technician who works there two years makes more than someone who works there for 5 years. You are not vested in the 401k until 5 years of employment. Company matches 50% of 6% of paycheck. Seems like the Rollins crew is living it up while the Orkin field side slaves away.

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5.0
20 May 2026
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CEO approval
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Pros

Wonderful team, works with life situations, gas card, company vehicle, you get out what you put in

Cons

Scheduling can be tricky at times, can be stressful at times, some long work days, you get out what you put in

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1.0
16 June 2026
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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