route driver

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Honey Bucket

I would avoid this position here. Any position for this company.
Go somewhere more corporate, somewhere you will be appreciated for your hard work and not told constantly you are too professional!  
I believe I was setup for failure. I was told things I needed to work on. Was supposed to have EOW coachings. I was written up for things I needed to work on. The boss was gone for almost a month. No coachings were provided. I was let go told I wasn’t working out there. And not to apply for customer service for a future job.  With no coachings after being written up, how was I supposed to get better? Management and her management are beyond lazy. They cannot keep their friendships with others out of the work place. 
Management was so lazy they had the president of the company let me go. Not only that because they didn’t have it in them to do so! 

It was pretty bad when you have to bribe customer service reps with money and gifts to get jobs booked for the flohawks side of things. So bad that employees didn’t care until these incentives were given.

I would get told your numbers are too high, you need more time on the phones. Your numbers are too low you need less time on the phones. 
I was told you’re putting too many notes in the account. 
I was told I’ll teach you how to do this in one coaching, it was never done. My co worker had to show me how.
I was confused on what I needed to do. I felt like nothing I did was good enough.

You would have fellow employees being lazy! Constantly hanging up on customers to pad numbers. You would have employees being lazy and avoiding calls to chit chat while bosses were away.

I was so under appreciated, I’m glad I was let go. Made my life so much easier. The day I was let go I had decided I was going to give my two weeks notice to start at my new job (where I am beyond happy at). 


Just stear clear of this place! I enjoyed it when I started there but ended up hating it when I was never coached or trained properly. 
It was probably just my department. I had liked the other departments. But CSR’s, pure laziness and I have taken my talents to Big Brother and the corporate world!

You been warned.

In a nutshell, Honey Bucket is a great company with a desirable, inclusive culture. The benefits are amazing, definitely costly to a business providing elite coverage at little to no cost to full time employees.  The positions available, unless administrative aren't glamorous and require intensive labor at times additionally, long periods of drive time. Over the years I've realized if you're unable to provide 50-85 hours per week-depending on the season and position, you're a super star and admirable or just an ordinary Joe who's  barely making it or so it seems. Lately, I've personally felt inadequate to the team and trade.  I have suffered consequences due to my apparent "insubordination".  Unfortunately, my obligations and attempts to be there and meet my childs needs (that have been strictly required by the charter school) doctors, illnesses, mental health setbacks etc .  As a single, financially and  grossly mentally unsupported parent, I've missed shifts and sacrificed pay and status due to my self reliant position, and additionally as primary care taker for my elderly family member. With little to no contact or communication from my supervisor(s) and little to no support outside of work, its created constant fear and anxiety of inadequacy that has affected my everyday life . I absolutely believe that in order to be a super star employee at Honey Bucket, you must have a strong support system aside from the company that will allow you to work long hours,and provide care to your children etc in your absence- as shifts must be worked. This is a great career for the individual that has ample resources outside of work for child care etc...For the individual with the drive of a young man, maybe woman,  eager to please and put in the hours and possessing the strength needed to commit to the mission. For the solitary single unsupported man or woman...this industry and company is not for you. Thanks!

As with any jobs there are pros and cons. However, the cons outweigh the pros in my opinion. But to be fair. for what you do as a route driver it wasn't that bad. You drive a dedicated route to different portapotties. You vacuum up the contents and hand clean the units. You will 100% get the contents in the portapotties on you at some point.. They want you to get them clean in 5 mins which after a couple months will be nothing. The drivers who have been there for a while are great people and super helpful. Your route sups can be VERY nitpicky on your performance but that's their job. Upper management only see you as a number and don't care about you.. That probably because the turnover rate is terrible.. You will be working 12-14 hour days. If you bust your butt and knock out your route so you can get off earlier they will add more stops to you.. They cant keep drivers so that wont change anytime soon. Your only guaranteed day off is on Sunday. They consider any other off day as "as needed" that way they can call you in.. It gets very hot in Houston and will make you drive a truck with no AC.. Registration tags are out on half of the trucks because they wouldn't pass inspection. The only mechanic they have is overworked.. For the most part you get left alone and let you work independently.  The benefits are great. I only paid 77 a week for full benefits for my whole family. and its free if its just you.. 

If you don't mind labor intensive work with a company who doesn't care about you then give it a try. 

The Oregon/SW Washington management team is a group of short-tempered poor communicators with both union employees and customers.  Dysfunctional work environment in the offfice while many good people doing union jobs as route drivers, yard maintenance, and territory managers.  All of these jobs require ability to work alone all day with minimal to no support from management and IT to provide necessary reports and information to be successful.  Union people are just bodies required to do the deliveries, services, and pickups.  The pay is decent and you will be given an old truck with gas card to drive 8-10 hours a day in your assigned area.  Could be a great job if management was different and cared about dedication and commitment to excellence.  They tell you to expect 50% of employees to quit or be fired within a year.  This is probably accurate.  Don’t plan on a career at the Oregon/SW Washington branch unless you can avoid management in Salem.  They will seem friendly in interview process and you get treated great in your one week of training in Puyallup.  This will be last formal training or safety meeting you will ever get in Oregon.  It takes a unique person to survive a year as the odds of accidents, incidents, or conflict with management are high and will lead to instant termination.

Being a route driver for HB is an extremely physically demanding job. Every single day is constant fast-paced work for incredibly long hours. A 55 - 70-hour workweek is nothing unusual. The delivery guys drop and lift each individual toilet, water tank, or giant bathroom from trailers between 50 - 100 times every day. The weight of a toilet is 200 pounds, and drivers lift toilets alone. The work-life balance is the worst of any job I've ever had. Alcoholism, drug use, and substance abuse all are a common sight amongst the physically beaten down employees. DO NOT WORK FOR HONEY BUCKET IF YOU WANT OR HAVE A FAMILY!!! Divorce proceedings and shattered families are frequently made sacrifices for the never-ending growth expected by the corporate managers in Washington. Driving and pumping become your new life, because you will not have time left for anything else. Management tries so hard to keep people happy, but they are forced to work even longer hours. Logistically the place runs alright, payroll is extremely fast and accurate, a support system is structured around the drivers, and the fully embursed health insurance plan is one of the best I've ever seen (similar benefits to a "Gold Level Obama Plan"). This is a great job during a transition period in life, but not a long term solution. The work will cripple your body and put you in an early grave from stress and strain.

You will work 14 hour days and you will never feel truly compensated for your work. Supervisors don’t care about you or the fact you have a family you would like to spend time with. All they care about is profits they lead from the top not from the front. The supervisors are so uneducated and don’t know how to explain a thing. They will hire anyone to be a supervisor most of them look homeless. The good employees get pushed around and worked to death with little compensation. If you clocked in 14.5 hours don’t worry your boss will be sure to correct it, and put 14hrs because that’s the minimum you can work, even though I’m clearly working and cleaning porter potty’s, and tying straps down. Their excuse well you shouldn’t have gotten here so early. My response I would like to go home before 9pm today. The vehicles registration is out dated the brakes don’t work the turn signals don’t work seriously nothing works on any of these trucks. I don’t know what I was expecting from this company, but everyone’s attitude is as s***ty  as the toilets we clean.

Every employee starts in the yard scrubbing and spraying toilets all day. After two weeks new drivers are sent to Washington for a week of training.  Every workday begins at either 6:00 am or 7:00 am, then god only knows when you will get to go home. The spring, summer, and fall months are grueling hours and workloads. Work consumes all of your time and makes it difficult to balance a happy life. The compensation is decent but tops out around $20/hour. The benefits are of high quality with great healthcare, vision, and dental. $25,000 life insurance policies are given to all the drivers for free because the job can be very dangerous and hazardous at times. Driving is simple enough, and a large portion of the job. Servicing toilets is the rest. IF YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH HUMAN WASTE DON'T EVEN BOTHER APPLYING!!! Pumping out toilets is super simple and easy. If it fits up the tip of the stinger, suck it up, scrub it down, and move on. Management is highly involved and supportive of all the drivers. The productivity expected sometimes feels unsustainable. Many drivers are worked to the breaking point and quit.

Working for Honey Bucket is like owning your own business. They provide the customers and truck and all of the necessary supplies to service your customers. If you treat the customers and run your route the way you would if it was yours. Manage your time, clean the Honey Buckets make sure they are level and located were you can service them and the customer can use them. Then this is the job for you. If you want mangers and supervisors looking over your shoulder telling you what to do constantly then you will not like it at Honey Bucket. But if you take pride in your work and want to be rewarded for doing your job the right way every time. Be given direction and input as needed and let you do your job and paid well for what the job you do. And given raises for your hard work and taking care of our customers not for having to be on the job for certain length of time. Having great benefits Health insurance 401 K with % match. Lots of opportunity for  advancement if that is what you want or just a great stable job.

It was pretty good until the training at "Honey Bucket University."  We were expected to remember the pre-trip which was 75 sentences long and to be able to write it on the board from memory in less than 24 hrs. There was no room for failure. We were told that 2-3 people had been failed the previous week for not being able to do it perfectly and their jobs would more than likely be terminated. And we were told sarcastically "no pressure." It was an unreasonable expectation and it was all fear, stress and pressure based. I spoke up respectfully and said just that. It was then that I realized that I didn't want to work for this company. I signed on with the expectation that I would be trained and not have unreasonable expectations put on me in the process. I ended up leaving for this reason. It's unfortunate because I would have been an asset to this company. If you can remember 75 sentences by heart then hey maybe this is the job for you. Good luck. 


If you absolutely need money and there are no current options then I would recommend HB.  If you do work there make sure you dedicate any and all free time to find something else.

This was without any doubt in my mind the saddest, toxic and flat out most depressing experience of my entire working life.  I probably would have stuck it out longer but it was management that killed any potential longevity I could have at the bucket.

If its poor communication and dysfunction you seek, proceed with caution.  The upside to the bucket is that it will make you the toughest SOB you know if you make it past 6 months.  If you can handle the Richmond yard and bay area routes, I salute you.  You truly are a warrior and man among boys.  Anyone who can hang at the bucket for a long time would definitely be better suited somewhere else where they are better valued.

Once hired I would network as hard as possible to find something else as soon as possible.  Seldom is such a job so void of meaning and personal gratification.  You have been warned.

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