construction laboratory technician

equipment operator

osp engineer

lineperson

construction supervisor

I began working at this company because the pandemic cut off my normal employment. And while I am grateful that they were able to hire me, it is not a sustainable job to maintain. The work was easy for me to pick up as it directly translated to my pre pandemic job. As such my Manager was quick to move me into a higher position because there needed to be more people at the higher level. Throughout my time with the company I was met with special projects, higher responsibility,  and glowing reviews of how I was doing well. 

Unfortunately there was never a financial reflection of the work I was doing. At 3 months there was the promise of when you move into this different position you can get a raise. Then when I moved into the different position, there was the promise of oh well once you've trained in the position there will be a raise. Then when I finished training and got a managerial review, there was a conversation where I was saying this is a LOT more responsibility than what I was hired to do. My manager then claimed upper management was impeding merit based raises. An extra two weeks passed and I once again pushed. The senior manager then addressed me and revealed that they are unable to give raises in order to maintain the current work force. However, they are instead hiring more people and attempting to use the current employees as recruiters. 

In my honest opinion, this company has a lot of skilled tasks to accomplish, but each task takes more knowledge needed to execute the tasks than the rate they are hiring at. This would be totally ok because they do train you, however after being trained there is zero incentive to stay with the company. This is creating a company where there are a lot of new hires that don't see the work that needs to be accomplished, stretched thin managers trying to allocate the right people to jobs, and the people who have been trained, filled with a desire to leave the moment they get a better offer. 

It took several months of heavier responsibility and being lead on of when I would get a raise to reflect the labor I was doing before I personally put in my two weeks and decided I would not work for a company that refused to value the labor I brought. 

ASG had and still has the potential to be a good company but they just keep taking wrong turns all over the place. Compensation is low and way under telecom industry standards. They may only try to give you more money when they fear losing you and when that happens it's still low. Also, the pay ranges and I'm not sure why. One person could make like 20k more than another person with the same title even though they have lower qualifications.

If you wanted to, you could start here and get your experience, but it is so emotionally and mentally draining and will potentially bring you down that you'll lose hope when looking for other jobs. There are a lot of great people here but the environment is messy and disorganized. There is also a lot of micromanagement and negativity. You could be the best person around and they'll make you feel like the worst. Sometimes not even on purpose.

I liked my people and my department, but in a management position it was easily noticeable that not all departments are run the same way. It potentially even seemed like the higher ups gave preferential treatment to some departments over others.
Also, the CEO seems like a good guy but I wonder if he knows anything about what's going on in lower levels. He and the higher ups try to keep workplace culture fun and have everyone involved, but morale seems low. Communication between departments is awful. As a manager it was hard to get promotions and increases in wages for your team because of whatever excuses the higher ups would give. There was also a lot of working after hours because there is not enough time in the day between helping your team(s) and all the administrative stuff that had to get done. You also have to attend A LOT of meetings but I guess it's good you don't have to turn your video on. They won't enforce that.


i applied to this company and this position because i wanted to get into the engineering field and well have to start somewhere right?

training- subpar at best, for the first 2-3 weeks they assigned you "seasoned" survey technician so you can shadow, some will try and teach but most just wanna get it done and go home and leave you to whatever you can pick up during those 2-3 weeks.

communication/management: communication SUCKS! specially when it comes to upper management and the "average worker". they expect you to communicate with them, answer their emails/text at a moment notice, but will not answer you or leave you on read when its actually important. there are managers who will try and help as much as they can, 

workload/pay: this position is appt based, the day before, you will get 1-2 site surveys, if work is very slow they will send you out on site visits, if its super slow they will give you an office day (basically stay home pretend youre doing work, but this is rare). on a regular 2 site survey day, it all depends on the type of buildings you get ,you may be there 3 hours or 10 mins depending on your expertise and "training" you was given (in quotes for a reason..), for the amount of work you actually do out of a 40hr work week, the base pay is okay but most definitely no a livable wage, once you start you will see everyone here has either worked here long enough where their wage is livable or they have a second job

IN SUMMARY: get your decent time of experience in and look for something better, from my time in this company i can tell you they could give 2 sh*its about the average worker who is actually out doing field stuff and not at home infront of a desk

*HONORABLE MENTION,THE MANAGERS AND UNOFFICIAL SUPERVISORS WILL FORGET THEY ARE SITTING COMFORTABLE AT HOME INFRONT OF THE AC/HEATER, AND SOMETIMES ASK YOU TO DO THE ABSOLUTE MOST ON RANDOM DAYS WHERE ITS EXTREMELY OR COLD, 

To begin, the majority of the management team is mostly family and family friends who don't deserve the positions due to lack of working experience. They don't know how to properly run a company and keep their people at least "somewhat" happy.
They say flexible hours and working from home, but in reality your manager will tell you that you can work from home once you do 40 hours at the office. With time you notice that raises are given to the family of the owner or friends. In fact, they don't take your performance into account when doing your review, only the "amount of time you worked there." The owner is a sales man so he will promise the world, but won't deliver EVER!
One time they hired 14 people and fired them all in 3 weeks because they didn't get the project they were expecting to get.
Christmas party is only for working friends, some management, and family with spouses (yet not "regular" employees)
Good treatment - only to friends, some management, and family.
Overworked, mistreated, and used - to everyone else.

Bonuses? LOL - they say "in the handbook it says we don't have to pay them out" and then don't pay it out. Outrageous! 
If you have some experience, don't do it to yourself. If you desperately need some experience, try it out. If you were to walk up to anyone and ask them if they are looking for a different job, they will tell you that they are and it's for a reason!
HR is a joke and everyone onsite knows it. If you talk to anyone at work about something other than work you will get written up. It's more strict than prison itself. 
They also fire people like there is no tomorrow then after that they will hire someone else for a dollar cheaper. Honestly, it's not worth it - don't do this to yourself.

The payment is extremely bad, and the treatment of the workers is terrible. They promised raises after six months and nothing, after a year and nothing, and career advancement and neither one of those were fulfilled after a year. They assign you more responsibilities and more workload without remuneration, after a year the increase remained in unfulfilled promises. Prepare to work under pressure and if you don't give numbers the manager starts threatening to fire you, so you can't work, it's a lot of pressure and worry. The manager has poor management, they are disrespectful, they are not professional, they are despotic, they are not there when you need them and the only thing you will receive in response is "you have to figure it out". You will never be able to satisfy him and they try to belittle your work no matter how well you do it, at the end of the day you will be mentally exhausted and discouraged. If you complain, be prepared not to receive support, the people at the top have no idea what happens at the lower levels and they don't investigate either, they only believe what the managers or people close to them tell them. I do not recommend anyone to work for this company.

So company went through a reorganization that went in affect 1-1-2025 which by the way was an absolutel mess. No one knew what was going on or what needed to be done. Less than 10 days later multiple managers were laid off with absolutely no idea that the company was struggling. This was after getting a new team and projects assigned to you and everything not even 10 days before. Why go through all of that just to lay us off? CEO spends more time talking about what he watches on Netflix during company calls than talking about what is really going on in the company or just not talking about what is going on at all. No one ever said anything to us about the company struggling or anything. 

But the work is not hard at ASG. Just a mess when it comes to no communication from higher ups. If you like wondering if you’ll have a job the next day. This is the place for you. 

A typical work day entails going out in the field and finding property managers, landlords and property owners contact information. For apartment buildings, government buildings and residential buildings through cold knocking on doors and asking superintendents, tebants and workers for info. Then following up with phone calls and emails to get a "certificate of acceptance of propsed work" authorized and returned. 

I learned how to speak to strangers and research peoples contact information and how to convince people to give authorization for fiber optic cable to be installed on premise.

I worked with hundreds of clients and gained valuable organizational skils. the work place culture was dealing one on one with various ethic and religious demographics. 

The hardest part of the job was to deal with people who were not expecting a stranger from Verizon to be knocking on their door. 

The job had several financial incentives to  do a great job.

Other reviews have said it better. Until ASG starts paying it's employees a liveable wage it will not fix any of it's problems. It seems like management is aware of the problem but the low pay seems like their business strategy to be profitable. It creates a company culture where the employees feel like they are working for a company that doesn't care about the low level employees and would rather deal with a revolving door of incoming employees than make the situation better for the existing ones. With so many inept new drafters coming in, it requires managers to really lean on their more experienced drafters yet those experienced drafters are probably making the same amount as the brand new inexperienced drafter and will likely see no recognition in the form of a promotion or raise. This incentivizes workers to play dumb so they don't get extra work put on them with no reward.

ASG is the antithesis of a great place to work. If you aren't related to the owner or come with big connections from a big telecom company, you are a replaceable cog in the machine that is discarded once you have served your purpose.

ASG is a company that uses their at-will employment structure to terminate employees and refuse to pay out earned bonuses. This is negligent if not borderline criminal.

The company prescribes to the "over sell, under deliver" methodology. They send managers out to their areas without training and without proper equipment only to have promised to the customer that both these criteria were met and that jobs would be completed in timely manners. It then becomes the responsibility of the manager to keep up the façade while struggling to complete their jobs.


I have been given many opportunities over my time at ASG to grow from an entry-level support staff member to a part of the senior management team. I believe that I've been given an environment to thrive in through the support of my team members, upper management & C-Suite. Our HQ workplace culture is top-notch notch with an especially friendly energy. There are various monthly trainings offered to all employees to sharpen technical & soft skills via Teams meetings and online learnings. The hardest part of the job is keeping up with our ever-changing industry and new projects that are coming in. The most enjoyable part of my job is getting to work alongside a diverse group of employees across all our departments, and projects & being given the chance to make an impact on the future of the company.

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