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Staff rights have been drastically cut. If you're salaried, you take a significant pay cut and are expected to work more hours. If you're hourly, all holiday pay has been taken away. Employees have been told that if they don’t agree to a salaried position, they will lose their job. Management seems to care very little about the staff, expecting us to work more without proper compensation. If there’s an issue with billing, they refuse to pay you, and employees are left to track their own hours because there’s no clock-in/out system. It's on us to make sure we're getting paid, but management doesn’t provide proper support.

The treatment from higher-ups is often horrible. Employees who keep the business running are the ones getting shortchanged. Behavior Technicians (BTs) and Registered Behavior Technicians (RBTs) need to be paid appropriately for their roles. BTs are paid based on years of experience until they become RBTs, and RBTs should be paid according to their experience and knowledge. It’s unfair that some RBTs are paid $26 per hour, while BTs with no experience in the field are making the same amount.

Training is a major issue. No one is properly trained, and the company doesn’t seem to care about preparing its staff. New employees are thrown into working with kids without knowing anything about the clients or the work itself. Some BCBA’s are nice, but it really depends on the individual.

Applied ABC, it’s time to do better and treat your staff fairly. You make a lot of money—so invest in your employees and bring back the supportive, respectful environment that the company had before this summer, when everything started to fall apart. Bring back PreDiem  plus positions back and go back to the old way so that everyone employee can be happy And then you can continue growing as a company. 

I have had two cases in my area, one that I got as soon as I started and another that I had to wait almost a year to get. They are amazing kids. My BCBAs are fantastic as well. If you get a salary BCBA you’ll get good support from them, but with hourly BCBAs it’s rare. Common sense would assume the opposite, but that’s my experience. I love working in the home and every parent I’ve met has been fantastic and welcoming. I’ve learned so much with this position. 

Other than that, upper management sucks. They suck because they’re practically nonexistent. Case managers take forever to respond. The clinical team will only contact you through automated emails. And don’t get me started on the higher ups. Both me and my coworker applied for an internal job and both got interviews where they practically said that we got the job. After that we got ghosted by upper management. Ridiculous. Never heard back when we literally work for the company. 

They have no networking opportunities in my area so you’re all by yourself if your BCBA isn’t responsive and you don’t work in a home with other RBTs. There isn’t even a group chat and I don’t have a company email. I don’t know other RBTs in my area unless I coincidentally come across them. 

You feel wonderful support and can even work on getting your BCBA license if you are lucky enough to get a BCBA supervisor that cares. If not, they do the bare minimum and you feel alone. I’ve never felt that my supervisors were unqualified, just absent. 

The kids make it all worth it, but when you’re dealing with difficult behavior completely alone it is so tough. That’s why the retention rate for this position is so low. 

WE NEED NETWORKING!! 

Working at Applied ABC was a challenging experience due to several critical issues. The facility's lack of professionalism and communication is concerning. The working environment poses safety hazards, with exposed outlets and a need for urgent renovations, making it an accident-prone area. Additionally, there are frequent issues with broken glass from children damaging the glass doors, which further complicates the safety situation.

The facility often suffers from insufficient staffing, which impacts the ability to care for the children effectively. This shortage of staff also leads to disruptions among the administrative team. The intake coordinators frequently send clients to the facility without proper communication, which can create confusion and make the staff appear unprepared.

Repeated attempts to address these communication issues with the team have been ineffective. Supervisors are often unavailable, and decisions such as terminations are made without clear explanations or direct communication, typically communicated via email rather than in person.

Overall, the work environment at Applied ABC is demanding, with a lack of support and poor management practices. Employees are often overworked, and the absence of effective leadership further exacerbates the situation. Prospective employees should be aware of these issues before considering a position with the company.


My experience during the summer job had its challenges. There was a lack of consistency in communication from management, which sometimes made it difficult to provide the best care for the children. Important information from parents was not always delayed to the staff and there were moments when safety protocols such as handling health concerns and conducting drills, were not consistently followed. Overcrowded classrooms and a lack of structured sessions also impacted the overall experience.

Additionally, only one or two BCBAs were on-site, with the rest working virtually. Managing a classroom with multiple children while coordinating with a virtual BCBA added stress and increased the complexity of the work environment. PP+ RBTs were given priority for client assignments, as management indicated they were under contract. If PP+ RBTs were given priority for client assignments, as management indicated they were under contract. If a PP+ client's session was canceled, another RBT's client was reassigned to the PP+ RBT, leaving some staff without work. This created a sense of instability and inequity in scheduling.

Despite these operation challenges, the children were a joy to work with, and interacting with them was the most rewarding part of the job.


After completing the free 40-hour didactic training to become an RBT, I struggled greatly with communicating with my only point of contact (who happened to be someone all the way over in New York while I'm in Florida) to begin my hands-on training, which would've left me without any in-person supervision if it had begun.  I always had to reach out, and the coordinator I kept contacting would never follow up with me about my inquiries and concerns in spite of assurances to the contrary.  I tried three separate times to get me in contact with a local case manager, but each and every time she assured me I had been set up and would be contacted, I'd hear nothing for weeks and have to reach out to her again to figure out what happened.  After the third failure, it had been two months since I had completed my didactic training, and I finally lost patience and quit.  For an industry that heavily relies on reliable communication, this practice is severely lacking, and I can only imagine what clients and their families go through.  I was also incredibly uncomfortable about being thrown right into a new client's sessions even though I had little reassurance of properly supervised hands-on training, which is ethically ambiguous at best.  First-timers in the field, stay away.

STEER AWAY FROM THIS COMPANY! -- This was my second ABA company and I often sometimes wish I never left my first.

-No paid drive time or mileage
-Severe isolation given no social community platform or outings established within the company 
-No culture
-No benefits
-Barely any BCBA Supervision
-BCBA Issues and Unprofessionalism- You all know exactly what I'm referring to. 
-Horrible working hours and often times conditions
-Long drive times
-Getting more and more injured and financially insecure as time goes on
-Case manager seems overly worked in ways 
-Not enough hours- Case manager still ”on the look out” for an extra case for me to go back up to FT
-Pay you 1x a month AFTER THE  1ST OF THE MONTH- Has made my financial life insanely difficult- The worst in my entire life working.
-Withheld payment from me for almost a month after manager promised I would be paid during the previous billing cycle.

All in all, this is the last ABA company you should want to work for, no matter the location.

This company has good pay but no benefits at all. Case managers are very nice but there communication is off and they do not cross check there work when they send out new cases available. After I was let go from two cases due to whatever issue it was (yet I was told, I did an awesome job and the family enjoyed me and my hard work but family has decided to do go a different route for therapy), I noticed the list of cases they send out, the same cases that I was let go off is back on the list (so now I am confused) and then when you tell them what cases you want, you are told they will get back to you to see if cases are available??? Why wouldn't it be if you just sent the email out?? I had one good BCBA and the other one I had twice (which was on the two cases i was let go of) I noticed a pattern with this BCBA. Whenever I have requested notes for a session, they don't right back and then when they do, they state they will send. I had to ask 4 times and then all of a sudden I lose the case. This happened twice!!!! So I am pretty much over this company and there non communication, and no benefits, and hardly any cases that are available..... Moving on.......

This company solicited my services as BCBA.  Credentialed me in serval places, but constantly told me there was no work for my credentials.  How can that possibly be when you contacted me claiming you needed BCBA’s?  
I asked them why they used my profile in CAQH to state that I was working at their locations at least once a week on a weekly basis which was false. They refuse to acknowledge.  They claimed it had to be this way to get work.  So they were using my credentials to solicit more work, but were not providing me with any work.

Beware of companies doing this.  They are in fact gaining more clients, but not paying you.  If they were so short handed as they claimed why don’t I have clients?

Beware.  I keep hearing of companies like this who use BCBA credentials and solicit work, to give the work to someone else who is at another location.  Not sure if that happened here but it is October and I started with them end in May/June and had no cases!  That is a red flag.

As an RBT, I have worked at multiple ABA companies in my career. Of all places I have worked, Applied ABC is the worst of all. The owners simply do not care about the clients and their success, and rather, they want to make as much money as possible. The Manchester clinic frequently runs out of cleaning supplies and even drinking water. We often go weeks without paper towels, trash bags, sanitizing wipes, etc. The clinic management is completely untrained and unqualified to be in their positions. The staff have been paid late or not at all for their work more than once. The classrooms are overpacked with clients in the summer, and the company’s schedulers mix around therapists too frequently that the clients get zero consistency during this time. Please do not send your children here and do not work here (even though the pay is great).

My experience working as a behavior technician at Applied ABC was extremely disappointing. From the very beginning, there was no real support from upper management, and any concerns I brought up were ignored or brushed aside. The communication was disorganized, expectations constantly changed, and there was never consistent guidance on how to handle difficult situations with clients or families. Despite the job requiring a lot of emotional, mental, and physical energy, management provided little to no training, supervision, or appreciation for the work we did.

Schedules were unreliable, staffing was chaotic, and it often felt like the company cared more about numbers than the well-being of employees or clients. I frequently felt overwhelmed and completely unsupported. This was one of the worst work experiences I’ve ever had, and I would not recommend Applied ABC to anyone looking for a healthy or professional work environment.

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