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Working at ATR is the equivalent of banging your head against the wall over and over again with a constant headache. They worry about everything that is not important. The pay/benefits are fair  and you’ll be fine as long as you go along with things that don’t make sense. Don’t voice your opinion and under no circumstance go to HR. If you follow those 2 things, it won’t even matter if you know how to do your job.

The turnover at this branch specifically, is rapid and frequent. No one is happy at this branch, due to the fact that everyone works for a man who is willfully ignorant and lazy. The bosses at this branch are unqualified and incapable of generating good or intelligent ideas. The RD is only there by the protection from the VP of the division, who made a grave mistake by hiring him in the first place. This person will throw anyone and everyone under the bus to save his own job. I honestly can say, I’ve never worked for a worse person.

You will have NO training when you start. There are good people there, but at the rate people are railroaded and fired, they’re running out of people who contain the industry knowledge or experience to train a new hire properly.

If you are looking for job security, make sure to keep your head down and you’ll be fine. This company does not promote from within, but if you are happy at a generous starting rate, you can work there until the doors close, which is not far off.

You will find high expectations here to perform many duties outside of the scope that your specialized in. There are not enough associates to cover the many rolls and positions required for this architectural services and construction organization. The opportunity for advancement is nil here as management is comfortable with keeping associates that are good at juggling the different responsibilities at the bottom of the pyramid with low salaries. Accountability is something that is unheard of here and where "wrong" is acceptable so long as its easy and maintains profitability, only when something is red flagged as wrong will it be corrected. This is a good place to learn many positions in the design and construction industry but unless your comfortable with having to many responsibility's and no focus on a specific single duty (ex: accountant/permit processor/plan reviewer/ADA inspector...) for the rest of your career this place is for you, otherwise its a good get in and get out opportunity.

I would have to get there 10 min to start time, clock in, go grab my PPE ( personal protective equipment ), and have to do stretches until my boss got there to assign us to our jobs for that day. Sometime there is no time to stretch and I would sometime change jobs several times a day. If someone did not have their PPE on by the second bell and got caught they would get a stop ticket, their boss and the department manger both would get a copy as well. I had to report every tiny cut, bruise, and smash to the safety council. I also had to report unsafe people and methods, equipment, and near misses. The management was awesome I liked the big boss and the second big boss they were straight forward down to earth good guys. The department where I worked was in the direct sun all day long, the co-workers spoke mostly spainsh so communicating was very hard. The warehouse guys and me got along great we had a good friendship going and made me want to go to work.

This review is about TRS-Rentelco, a subsidiary of McGrath.

There are some good people that you will work with but you will not work for good people. Management is is full of hypocrites, with a do as I say not as I do attitude. They often said rank has it privileges. The management style is fear based, basically they will remind you that you can be fired at any time and your job is never safe. 
There is no chance for advancement. There is stability with the bulk of the employees having several years, if not decades of time spent there. You will be micromanaged, with lots of armchair quarterbacking and every choice and decision you make will be questioned and at the end of the conversation you will probably have made the wrong one, because management knows best.
Taking vacation is nearly impossible as they only allow one person off for vacation at a time, the good thing is you can sell all those unused vacation days back to the company.


Between being in a toxic atmosphere for 5 years due to a very unpleasant coworker ( which HR and management ignored) and the always overturning of management and coworkers, you can always be working out of your job description and overworked period. You won't have time to train anyone new especially a new manager because you will constantly be playing catch up. You can tell management and even upper management that things need to change, but they will just take that as an unsubordinate employee. If you want to work at this company you should try something in sales because accounting is the black sheep of the company and will always have issues. If you're up to being stressed and never being happy this is the place for you.

A typical day at work would be continuing where you left off yesterday, finish grinding a floor, cleaning up your work area, ect. but not so in my case, as a laborer assistant my job varies day to day. once im done with my job duty(s) i tell my superviser and then he'll tell me whats next for me to do. witch is great because i get the oppotunity to learn how do to many diffrent things and how to do them well. Management at Enviroplex does a well job but higher Managment not so much, they tend to lag a little but despite that everything get done and finished accurately and in time. the co-workers are friendly once you get to know them. everyone knows pretty much everyone. The hardest part of the day is when your job duty(s) are slow, by slow i mean having to find something to do or help out your co-workers when work is ending its season.

Worked here for a few years, always issues but the last 2 years made this bad job unbearable. New management at Adler South Plainfield, NJ  has no idea what they are doing and every word that comes out of their mouths is a lie. They ask you to do unethical and at times border line illegal things in regards to cleaning tanks on site. If you do not do what they ask, they will threaten you and will always keep something over your head to fire you. The people running this place are clowns. All of their customer and employees hate them, by their own doing. At least 15 people have either quit or been fired in the last 2 years, I was lucky enough to leave on my own before they eventually found a way to fire me. If you work in the shop, they will work you like a dog and screw you on overtime, don’t be fooled, stay away from this place.

Each day was a busy day really no time for play but did have some laughter. I learned how accounting works with a rental company and the additional of new rental companies add to the McGrath RentCorp umbrella. I loved working with my co-workers we were a great team and watched out for one another. Great people. We had two systems and some spread sheets with emails to research what went wrong with a billing transaction to come up with why it happened and think how to correct the issue. Sometimes it was time consuming.  I enjoyed the research to find where something went wrong and figure out how to corrected. It was the hardest but I enjoyed it and the feeling of accomplishment solving and fixing the issue.

This is a great company to work for if you like to problem solve, change gears quickly, and enjoy work overload.  They strive for teamwork, however, when the day becomes stressful and there are personality conflicts, the company encourages employees to approach each other with "courageous conversation" in order resolve issues on their own rather than getting HR involved.  There are a lot of meetings involving management so when you run into problems requiring manager approval then you have to wait.  The days are long and this isn't a typical 8 hours a day job because of the workload.  The days end up being about 9-10 hours long.

This company puts a lot of effort into their people - it doesn't mean they don't make mistakes, but their intent is always the right one.  They are behind when it comes to technology, D&I, and emerging markets, but they make up for it ten-fold with culture, financial discipline, and customer service priorities.  It's a hidden gem in a small town and once good people find it, they don't leave.  The company is very good at attracting people with the right DNA - it's led by honest, smart, and passionate people.  The CEO is excellent and leads by example.  

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Construction laborer 138 salaries reported	$22.45 per hour
Truck driver 79 salaries reported	$29.55 per hour
Sales representative 66 salaries reported	$105,790 per year
Material handler 40 salaries reported	$18.60 per hour
Laborer 1 salary reported	$16.00 per hour

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