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Knox-Blount Maintenance

If you are simply a janitor, your job is relatively very easy. You go to your building(s) clock-in, do your job, and clock-out and head home. This holds pretty true for the supervisor positions also, just with a tiny more responsibility because your in charge of your team.
However, if you are an Area Manager (as I was), things get quite a bit more involved. Upon clocking in, it is your responsibility to try and plan ahead for the upcoming week accordingly to do building walkthroughs, supply deliveries, meet-ups, fill-ins, extra detail, and anything else requested of upper management. Which doesn't seem all that hard, EXCEPT this is a paid per hour position but upper management REQUIRES you to be on call and available 24/7 potentially 365 (depending on your buildings schedules). The main guy in upper management believes he can and will call you every day, multiple times a day, including weekends, to ask you about what you have planned for the coming up night and you will end up having the same discussion at least 3 times before your shift even starts. And no, you do not get compensated for taking work-related calls. 
It is a very rough and micromanaging work environment as an area manager. 

This company is very quick to give the overachievers the short end of the stick. Upon my 2.5 months of working with this company i learned that no matter if you can do a job more efficiently, it’s all dependent on whether your on-site manager wants you there or not. In my time i’ve already come across 2 coworkers (1 still active within the company, both have received multiple complaints on their work) have their jobs threatened by the Area Manager, yet begged for and saved by the On-Site manager for the same “clock riding” to occur. This company (though apparently very lenient in peculiar circumstances) seems to have an issue with employees who show up and work hard; ive worked 2 jobs for the past month and got fired today for missing a few trash cans (which is an extremely rare case for me) and had my main full-time job be used as an excuse to fire me with no warning nor pre-existing knowledge of dissatisfaction. 

The least professional office i have ever worked in. 0 central planning or forethought put into any activities beyond what is happening in about 4 hours windows despite all customers having set time windows and schedules. Wildly outdated CRM systems- everything is managed by lists, spreadsheets, and whats in the bosses head at time of meeting.

No PTO,  or retirement benefits. 
 
 Strange internal policies for management like " never communicate to any employee or manager via text or email-never put anything in writing." Every action taken by every single employee from top to bottom is personally micro managed by the vice president. 

Consistently hired people for "full time" and gave them 15-25 hours weekly. Management verbally abuses many of the cleaners causing huge turnover in my time there.

Typical day at work at Knox  blunt maintenance was not a bad day ever  not even stressful really  they really  just wanted u to show up do all the job that was required to be done  learned to do a great job  in a  decent  fair amount of time  I had no problem with management some are better than others but no different than any were else.    L the hardest part of a job was leaning the building or business u was in  and rember every thing that had to be done that's it.  And the best part of the job was  nobody stood over the top of u and picked or pushed u through a job they told u Wat they expected from u and  it was up to u to  do ur job  and do it right not hard  

What is the best part of working at the company?
Its a horrible cleaning company. They lie and say you're part of the team. I broke my arm and had the proper hospital documents they fired me because I miss too many days (3 days), then wanted me to train another person to take over my job!!! If I was horrible at my job why ask me to train the next person....

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
no communication, overtime work hours not accounted for

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
not good, no value to different ethnic backgrounds

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
my day consist of rushing and overworked. They want you to clean buildings that require more than 1 or 2 people..

What is the best part of working at the company?
Being forgotten about,not having a raise at all after being with them for over 3 years, being treated like you don't matter. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Everything, you name it there will be a problem some how some way. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Toxic,they hire anyone and everyone and constantly fire people, no room for advancement or pay increase. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Clock in,do what I can with what little tools and supplies I do have at hand and clock out and leave.  Repeat 5 days a week.

Knox-Blount is a unique place to work for., as a contractor you could be assigned to many different areas around East Tennessee, I was the Supervisor for a small group at the VW warehouse,  the folks at VW don’t look down on you (since you are not one of their employees) they try their best to make you feel comfortable.  Knox-Blount General Manager will work with you and help when you are short staffed.

Absolute great place to work! I take pride in my work which is a reflection of myself and it has led me to be in my position. I enjoy what I do, the job is easy and fun. When I’m cleaning buildings I plug in some tunes and get busy. I love being able to make my rounds to stop and check in with everyone on their job sites. I truly have a wonderful work family. Some days are challenging as with any job but I overcome with the help of my fellow employees including upper management. We are all a team. I couldn’t imagine a better place to work. 

What is the best part of working at the company?
Nothing at all don’t work here 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Working with someone who is lazy and stays on their phone but never has consequences 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Definitely not a female friendly  environment 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Working changing trash bags and cleaning bathrooms

I worked for the company in one location, which I liked. But the countless "managers" that never offered a single bit of training or help was ludicrous at best. Supplies were often late and not even ordered on time. The job wasn't bad until the last manager came in complaining that extra work wasnt being done, all the while wouldn't offer to help or so much as send any help. Pay was sub par and there were no benefits offered. Advancement within is only likely if you expect to bend over backwards and get nothing in return. 

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Cleaner 52 salaries reported	$15.87 per hour
Office cleaner 43 salaries reported	$15.83 per hour
Custodian 6 salaries reported	$15.75 per hour
Janitor 29 salaries reported	$16.59 per hour
Head custodian 8 salaries reported	$20.13 per hour

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