Waste Management

I worked for WM for 11 years here in north Louisiana. The deal in a nutshell is this. GREAT pay! Great benefits! But they have rules that cover rules & rules to cover those rules. You can not do your job for breaking rules. If something goes wrong, they make a rule which conflicts with 3 other rules. Eventually rules get slack in order to get work completed. Then something happens & they make a new rule which again conflicts the last rule they made . In a couple of weeks they see they cant get work done because the rule prevents work from getting done. They dont take the rule out, they just ignore it. Then when something happens, its you who gets the blame & gets disciplined or terminated.
While WM, on the face is a good company, its very, very hard to work for them. Thats why you see the same job posted all the time. There is a LOT of turnover in residential. A LOT!
Here, front load started at 2:30 am. Residential starts anywhere from 3 - 5 depending on where their route is &/or starts that day. Roll-off starts at 5 am. A typical work day is 10 - 14 hours per day generally 6 days per week. It depends on contracts. One city may require saturday pickup for residential, some may not. Most front load is 6 days & they have the longest days. Roll off is 6 days & some work 7 days because, here we have a paper mill so someone has to work sundays as well, which is usually rotated with the drivers.

While sometimes I would bring home $1000 - 1100 per week in roll-off, I enjoyed the job but hated the system. I was so glad when I left WM & felt like such a load was lifted off of me, & tho now I bring home only $825 every two weeks, I would never, ever go back to WM.

The worst thing about the "job" is the landfill. If they don't keep it up when it rains, it backs up with truck after truck stuck & having to be pulled out. A LOT of wait time & wasted time. In front load & residential, no matter how long you wait, you can not go home until your route is finished. If you're on a 10 hr day & it takes 16 or 18 hrs to finish your route... you stay till your done & you will be back on time for tomorrows route. Its all about contracts with the garbage industry & especially WM.

Hope this helps

 

WM has a job listed on Career Builder today in Monroe, La for a residential driver.. $12 per hr.