Terrain No Life No pay or play - Field Technician Terracon Employee Review

2.0
9 Oct 2014
Recommend
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Pros

The co-workers are an ok group of guys, none I'd go have a drink with but they do all look out for each other. Nice to have a compensation for using your personal phone for work about $70, but not worth it when you have an obsolete android phone. They are heavy on safety because people hurt themselves everyday. People have died on jobs or going too jobs.

Cons

Hired for full-time but have had a day or two off almost every week. Work is either there or its not. I've had to do a lot of labor work(moving file cabinets, chairs, tables, sweeping,counter tops) all because of their remodeling. They hardly ever have enough work for the maybe 20 employees they have. Hard to call-in even the day before because they scheduled you for a 2:30 pour. I've been here over 3 Month with NO INSURANCE! They keep sending me 401k paper work in my mail but not once Anything about insurance. Everyone I work with has Insurance but me. Construction is a very difficult field to work in, and just isn't for me. I'm use to being able to clock in and out on a job. This job requires you to charge your time to each and every job you do through a company laptop. You never get a good amount of sleep when your work is early in the morning or is later in the day (2am or 7am) Its too unpredictable here.

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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
14 June 2026
Recommend
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Pros

You have sustainable hours for construction but there is mandatory overtime (The most I’ve done is 51 hours in a week), they pay you enough to live on, it’s good experience, upper management pays lip service to workers rights, there is genuine concern and regulation from management to provide you an emotionally and physically safe place to work, you’re never really rushed to do your job, and you do have the right to stop work

Cons

You need a degree in engineering or geology to move up and you have to threaten to move offices or take another job to get a pay raise. It’s not unionized.

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