Employees treated like disposable commodities. Sub-market compensation. BDOs get low base, and don't get real commission, only quarterly base pay that is severely capped, regardless of how much revenue you bring in. Bad, expensive medical coverage. Few holidays, skimpy vacation/sick leave. Extremely high turnover. In 2021, 4 out of 5 BDOs left or were let go, HR manager left, and several other employees left as well.
Management has a cavalier attitude towards employees' safety and well-being. In second half of 2020, office employees were not allowed to work from home, and were placed, unmasked, together in small buidlings with desks barely, or often not even 6 feet apart. In September 2020, COO said he believed Covid was no big deal that was blown out of proportion. In January 2021, during the winter Covid surge and before most people were able to get vaccinated, management pressured BDOs to attend a networking event in a crowded bar with no masking. A supervisor who came down with Covid didn't tell subordinates he had exposed that he had Covid until right before he came back to work.
A member of management (Glassdoor doesn't allow me to be more specific) smoked inside the office regularly, and even more concerningly, smoked while standing next to a 10 Day Hazardous Waste Storage pad.
Very unprofessional environment - a member of management regularly talked about strippers in the office, and said we all needed to go to a strip club, which I took for sophomoric "humor" until he actually organized an afterwork outing to a strip club. Also a lot of "jokes" about "tramp stamps." Alcohol consumption occurred at company lunches, after which employees returned to the office, and a Christmas party lunch that occurred in the middle of the workday had an open bar.
Sells itself as a comprehensive environmental services company, but lacks the capability to perform a lot of common environmental services work. Another BDO and I who had previously worked as environmental remediation project managers in other companies had to point out to management that its constant claims that it does "environmental remediation" are untrue. What TAS calls environmental remediation is merely spill response where visibly contaminated surface soil is dug up and removed. TAS isn't capable of true remediation of contaminated/hazardous waste sites, creating remedial action plans, performing closures, etc. In the other industrial services work they do, they also oversell their capabilities. Several opportunities that I brought to the company were turned away because the company couldn't do the work, and one very lucrative contract I brought almost didn't happen, I had to fight management and go out and find subcontractors to get the work done.
Management seems to have unrealistic expectations of what it takes to work with large petroleum and chemical companies in the Houston area. Expects very large companies to sign its boilerplate Master Services Agreement as part of initial sales calls, when most companies like that don't sign MSA until they have identified a large project or ongoing work they wish to have the vendor do, and even then, the customers draft their own MSAs specific to the identified scope(s) of work, a process which can take months. This is just one example of TAS management's poor understanding of the market that leads it to place wildly unrealistic performance expectations on BDOs, hence the high turnover. What TAS really wants is new BDOs who come in with an existing book of business TAS can poach, which is hypocritical because TAS makes BDOs sign such restrictive Non-Compete agreements that a BDO who leaves can't take a book of business with them, and is even heavily restricted on working in sales in the same industry in Texas for a year after leaving. And BDOs get no consideration for signing these restrictive Non-Competes other than employment (while it lasts).
Be skeptical of positive reviews of this company. As several other reviewers have pointed out, management pressures current employees to write positive Glassdoor reviews to attempt to counteract the negative ones.