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Thompson Consulting Services

What is the best part of working at the company?
Contributing to a very important, community-minded and moral goal; clearing people's personal property and helping others return to their property (this is the goal) following a natural, catastrophic event.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Maintaining emotional distance from job duty (during working hours) while engaging in very physical and manual labor of lot-clearing.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Stamina required. Heavy physical lifting. Lots of walking, driving to remote locations. Extreme team-oriented. Physical accountability due to nature of remote (forestry, for example) locations. Expect no luxuries, unless you consider Port-O-Potty facilities a luxury. I do.    :)      Expect to get certifications. Study. Pay for your own meals and possibly lodging. It's a good place to feel personally rewarded.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Wake up at 4:30am. Drive to your team check-in assigned location (could be a local shopping mall.) Get your assigned electronics. Get your team assignments. Drive 20-40 miles in your own car, or possibly teammates, to catastrophically ravished properties. Oversee heavy machinery. Physically go into sites in a HAZMAT (personal protective gear) to do final hand-picking of debris. Give clearance. Oversee movement of machinery and team to next assigned site. Do this for an 8 +/- hour day. Do this for 6-9 months until community has been cleared in regards to FEMA Guidelines. Have fun. It is.

I enjoyed working for the company, I worked for thompson for a total of 10 months but in that time I was able to learn a lot about disaster recovery. I believe that it was the first fire they had worked because they usually worked with the cleanup from the hurricanes. It was a bit unorganized at the beginning and they didn`t really communicate much to us about what we would be doing. The pay is great and the over time is awesome as long as you don`t mind long hours and never getting time off. I also think that they could have given more for the automobile per diem for the locals. My car is pretty much totaled from driving in the mountains and all the mud and the gas mileage compensation wasnt enough for some of the sites I was sent to. Also, had to replace two tires because of nails from two different disposal sites that I did not get reimbursed for.
So, overall it was a great first company to work for and I think the next contract they get they will be even better! It was a learning experience for everyone and amazing that we helped with the cleanup for over 400 properties so that people could get back into their homes..

While the money you make is pretty good, you sacrifice any free time to have a life. Management was rarely available. Supervisors were always late, totally disorganized and definitely biased with how they treated and promoted certain monitors vs others. There were 6 supervisors and each one would have a different answer to the same question. Rules and regulations changed almost daily which led to confusion and inconsistency. Getting time off was difficult at best and if you took a day off, it felt like you were punished the next day back. If you needed an hour for an appointment, you were forced to take the whole day off. 
The equipment that was provided was clearly beat up and only worked sometimes.
My vehicle sustained damage in multiple places because of the sites I was sent to. None of the supervisors or management would answer if Thompson would cover repairs so  now if I want it repaired, I'll have to make a claim with my insurance.
Overall a horrible working experience that I wouldn't recommend to most people. 

What is the best part of working at the company?
Company is very organized and willing to train. Work is consistent with overtime pay.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Monitoring contractors that do not always want to adhere to the guidelines.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The work environment is great. Morning safety meetings are serious and cover expectations. However, the staff are easy to get along with.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Depends on the location of the job. Right of way monitors follow trucks that are picking up the debris on the side of the road. The monitor follows behind in their own vehicle until the truck stops. Monitors get out and make sure the debris trucks are only picking up eligible items. Once the truck is full, the monitor scans the truck and gives the driver a ticket. While the truck drives to the dump and unloads, the monitor takes their break.

Hours were a lot which didn't make for a good work/Life balance. They made it clear to expect to work 12 hours a day, 7 days a week when you signed up and they didn't disappoint.Compensation included time and half after 40 hours. Supervisors couldn't have been better. They also made it clear that it would only be a temporary job. For the most part the colleagues were great people. there's always a few people in a group as large as ours was that are miserable. For good or bad, management tolerated them but management would also pick out the diligent workers and at the very least find a way to give them a pat on the back.If I had an idea that I thought would make the job simpler they were quick to respond and accommodate me. Sometimes the work would be very hectic but then there might be a quiet period where you could get recomposed.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Meeting lots of new people & working outdoors.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
No stress at all once your trained & doing your job correctly it really easy job. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Only worked outdoors on disaster, relief projects, so I don’t know what the environment and culture is like. Most of the people are subs just like myself.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Early wake up early start time there is some downtime by the trucks are headed back to the dump site and at the dumpsite there’s downtime while you’re waiting on the trucks to come in. You keep busy enough but there’s enough time to rest in between also. The days are long but once you hit 40 hours you’re on time and a half so it’s well worth it.

What is the best part of working at the company?
I was made to feel like I was finally apart of something good in life it was an awesome program which I loved

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The program had the jobs going 3 county's away from where I lived so and I had just lost my car so a week before the job started so me and my bf just on a whim got a ride up there to where the site was and we took our tent we stayed in the tent there and humble our selfs rite of the bat for rides to and from our jobs untill we got our second paycheck then we was able to buy us another vehicle it was a humbling experience

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Everybody was very hardworking friendly and helpful

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Started at 6:30 a.m. rain snow or shine worked till 7 or 7:30 p.m. 7 days a week

Full of potential for a great work environment.
Lacked the leadership needed to cultivate a healthy work environment.
Lacked training and preparation for the job expected
Because they hire locals only at the start of the job, 
 It creates a very unstable work environment, especially as jobs wind down.  

There’s no paid days when the weather closes down job sites and no paid holidays 

Jobs 7 days a week, 10- 14 hour days , no lunch breaks, eat where you’re at, usually have to drive to a public restroom , you have to use your own personal cell phone to scan tickets if on ROW through the company’s app. 
That’s all dependent on good weather and all DMS sites open and trucks running.


There is nothing good about a disaster, but Mother Nature happens quite often, I’m glad I got the opportunity to be a part of a great company to work to help, I’ve read reviews some good and some bad, but what people don’t see is that this company gets thrown to wolves with each disaster. No two disasters are the same and not one person should think it runs smoothly with out some hiccup jumping out of nowhere, but my experience was great working with the people from  Thompson, they was just a phone call away if needed, I was one employee that advanced quickly, but I earned it, just like any other company, if you earn it, but overall experience was enthusiastically good and easy work, one of the most pie jobs I ever worked.

No management, the only way to get promoted is to be friends with someone. Most of the people that were managers had no managerial experience. They lied to you about promotions to get you to stay working. Very disorganized, no communication, and would cut your hours a lot with no notification. Would bring you back after being standby under the assumption you were working a full week when you did not. It seems like the management had no idea what was going on with the project. Also could not even communicate with the staff. Toxic environment had major stuff happen  and  still had no security. 

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Monitor 61 salaries reported	$17.05 per hour
Data collector 14 salaries reported	$15.04 per hour
Public relations specialist 2 salaries reported	$40.00 per hour
Quality assurance inspector 6 salaries reported	$20.00 per hour
Travel coordinator 2 salaries reported	$26.00 per hour

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