Michigan - 11/02.  My husband, who had worked for Terminix for almost three years, is a very ethical man.  He was placed on two different, unorganized routes while employed there, and he turned them into efficiently run routes full of happy customers. His promised reward for his hard work was to be a bonus ranging from $200 to $1200 a month.  He was very seldom “eligible” for the bonus as the company found ways month after month to keep his bonus.  He worked six days a week, 45+ hours. When the end of each month arrived, he would have additional accounts “appear” on his route that had not been present at any other time of the month. When he approached his bosses, they promised to fix it.  When he approached his bosses to ask them not to send other techs out to help him (due to their unethical and illegal practices of not completing services or signing bait boxes), he was fired. Two good things from his termination of employment are his stress levels have significantly decreased and his blood pressure has returned to normal. Your web site confirms what we have come to believe about the company.

California - 9/02.  I am “now” a former employee of Terminix as of September 2002.  I will explain later why I was terminated from Terminix. My wife and I read over this site while I was still in the process of being hired. At my second interview, I informed them of my findings; and they responded quickly with a response quote, “well don’t worry about that Mr., every company is going to have bad reports.” I thought to myself “I don’t think a company should have over 100,000 bad complaints.”  I went ahead and put that aside and continued to pursue my employment with Terminix; and, of course, I was hired. I already knew I would since there was such a high demand for so-called “inspectors,” which really meant salesperson. Come to find out three months or so later, I should have listened to all the people who wrote to this site; and I would not have gone through such a stressful ordeal that not only affected me but my whole family.  Again, I sure wish I would have listened, and I hope that anybody else that might be seeking employment through Terminix would seriously reconsider!!!

The reason I was terminated was because I stood up for myself when I felt I was being disrespected, which obviously no one else in the office had the guts to do.  For an example of the unprofessional environment I had to work in every day, there is a young girl working there that always dressed very!! revealing, which I later found out was a stripper and gave private shows to the technician manager, and a little “you no” on the side. I am not just making this up, it was very obvious to everybody in the entire office....  My immediate supervisor, Kyle, is a very egotistic person who also [descriptive word deleted] the stripper and is one of the most unprofessional, anal retentive, persons I have ever met in my life.  This is also a person who never really had any experience whatsoever and would stand over your shoulder telling you how you could be better when he had no idea what he was talking about. Everybody in the office knew he was a joke except Terminix, so what does that tell you about Terminix!! I am now one of the many disgruntled former employees of the all famous Terminix Intl.  They even cheated me out of my final check! I hope someone will learn from my mistake of joining the Terminix team of losers.

Florida - 9/02.  I was recently employed by Terminix, and what I found was just straight out wrong!  The branch is being run by a very incompetent [name deleted] and [name deleted].  These two should not even be let loose to run a hot-dog stand.  They are literally robbing the customers blind with this Sentricon system, and their pest control is a joke.  I have personally seen them LIE to customers just to complete a sale. They make their salesmen lie to cheat customers. The employees are made to take shortcuts, thus cheating the customers. That was reason one that I left and found employment elsewhere.

? - 8/02.  I served as an SVM manager for 13 years with these yahoos!! I could dump them on their ARS if I could BUT I can’t because of a one-year after willingful or wrongful termination contract I can’t do anything.  In my state, after one year, the State can’t follow up on wrongdoing of applications of pesticides or home inspections.  Sounds like they are covering their butts pretty good.

Georgia - 8/02.  I am a former employee of Terminix International and am now their competition in the Columbus, GA, market, who is constantly bad-mouthed by them.  I also have a friend whose parents in Blakely, GA, are having a really tough time getting a $150,000 termite repair claim resolved, whose house has been under contract with Terminix in Bainbridge, GA, for years. (Surprise!)

Florida - 702.  The Pinellas branch office is more interested in your money than the work that we do. Fact.

? - 7/02.  My husband is currently employed with Terminix, and he’s miserable. It’s obvious they are trying to get rid of him. This is because he refuses to screw the customer.  He is a repairman with a lot of integrity. He repairs the job right or he won’t repair it at all. Probably fifty percent of his work is going back and making repairs for repairmen who cut corners and save the company $$$. This is stupid!!!  If you do the job right the first time, it will save you money. Instead, they have to pay to have the job done twice.  My husband will have no part in this type of “customer service,” and they know that. That’s why they want him out.