Olameter Reviews

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.

Lots to unpack. They claim to want quality over quantity but absolutely will pressure everyone to get more done. There is a 20 ticket per day minimum, and no excuse, no reason will ever be good enough for them not to chew your butt over missing the 20 ticket mark. The corporate office in north Carolina micro manages the Colorado division, the company underbid the contract and in order to make a profit, they demand Colorado employees to complete more tickets, work longer hours, work weekends. They constantly lower moral with daily reminders of how unhappy they are with Colorado's production numbers, and nonstop implied threats of layoffs or being fired. The state manager ken is incredibly two faced and dishonest, he will never stick up for anyone under him! I could go on and on but i hope ive said enough to persuade at least one person to work anywhere but here.