Herbers Autobody
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Minimum pay, workload constantly increased, no appreciation

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Herbers used to be a great company to work for. Management changed and things went completely downhill. President and upper management do not appreciate the employees and believe employees should be thankful they have a job. It is a toxic workplace. Long term employees haven’t had a pay increase in 8+ years.

Pros

Decent benefits

Cons

Expectations of employees is unreasonable.
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Get told to do every one else’s job then get bitched at for doing everyone else’s job

What is the best part of working at the company?Nothing was a good part about working thereWhat is the most stressful part about working at the company?That whole place was stressful What is the work environment and culture like at the company?It was all terrible nothing good about it at all
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Insights into Herbers Autobody

Based on 14 survey responses
What people like
  • Energizing work tasks
  • General feeling of work happiness
  • Clear sense of purpose
Areas for improvement
  • Fair pay for job
  • Support from manager

Great place to work. Management really cares about their people!

Great company. Great people. Management really cares and helps people succeed. Your growth is their growth. They make a point of getting to know their people and helping them.

Pros

Great people

Cons

Benefits could be better
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Makes you wanna drink

Honestly the management at this company is pathetic I had to keep calling them to get hired and finally I did and after a few months realized that the stress this job puts on you and not caring about the extra hours you put in to yell at you this company will drive you to drink
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High expectations, low compensation

For Reference: I was the parts-coordinator at the west location, and mirror matcher at the south.Honestly, this is probably one of the worst companies I've ever worked for in trades. The position pays significantly under industry standards, boasts you being "Salary" but doesn't give you any of the perks of being salaried, and convinces you to not file lost time claims because they'll pay you, (since you were injured due to a safety hazard) and then docks your pay anyways and makes excuses. They require you to be highly skilled at the job, but then tell you it has "no requirements" so they don't pay to industry standard. As a Parts Coordinator, you are in charge of all of the invoicing, inventory management, tracking, month end, credits (which you have targets to make every month) but they consider this entry level, and not a management position. It's overall the worst body shop I've ever worked at and will warn everyone about them.

Pros

Cheap Parts

Cons

No Overtime, Stressful, Terrible Management
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Lots of beers after work.

High expectations quick turnover little chance to move up in the company. Poor quality repairs were often passed onto the customers. Cars are repaired in an assembly line sort of system little care was given for hidden damage. Body techs often dumped more work onto the preppers. Paint and primer usage is recorded and evaluated constantly for cost saving purposes.

Pros

Free lunch sometimes, training & updating.
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Fast paced business casual enviroment

I have very much enjoyed working for Herbers. it offered a relaxed enviroment with fast paced work through the busy winter months. Your days fly by most of the time. My co-workers were all great to work with and the management style is wonderful. She is hard working and professional, but still friendly and relatable.
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Good place. Poor management

Great place to work. Great culture. 3 managers in 3 years. That was a problem. It was difficult to maintain consistency with the many management changes. Painter had no say about prosucts and application plocedures

Pros

Good pay. Good culture

Cons

Very fast pace. No input
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The body shop people were very young in age and socially with exception to 1or2 people

Nobody gave praise for a job well done. Asked to do jobs out of sequence. For instance cleaning a truck only to find out it had to go to kal tire. Then having to wash it again when it came back. I sometimes washed the same truck 2 to 3 times.
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Very organized

Very fast paced environment , good organization and consistently monitoring and tweaking their production processes. Good benefits package and the pay scale better than industry average. Great place to work

Pros

Organized and very proactive

Cons

Could be more appreciation of long hours and extra effort
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Average

Looking for somewhere that pays flat rate. They do not pay us properly here and it’s not paying the bills. Decent management but poor work quality for the employees for the most part
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Official response from Herbers Autobody

28 February 2020
We appreciate the 4 start rating and your feedback. As a current employee, we definitely encourage you to speak with the proper channels about your concerns. We never want any of our stakeholders to feel as if they have poor work quality. We believe that in order to make a business successful, open communication is key. Thank you again for your review.

Hard on the employee

Employee rotation is high due to lack of respect and no flat rate pay structure for the refinish side. Sick days are not respected. Management is too concerned about their own bonuses and not the employee.

Cons

No human relations.
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Official response from Herbers Autobody

28 February 2020
Thank you for taking the time to leave a review. Our pay structure in the refinish department is designed to encourage teamwork within the department, and we’re sorry that wasn’t your experience. We do try to respect our stakeholders’ sick leave requirements, as outlined in our sick day policy. Our Management Team is consistently striving to make the employee experience a good one – if you feel like this was not the case, please feel free to email us confidentially with more information at hr@herbersautobody.com.

worst environment i have every worked

the worst workplace i have ever worked in my 10 years of being in edmonton, they are sooo cheap they will let a very valuable employee of almost 4yrs experience go all because of pay
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Good place to work

Everyone seems to be very friendly and welcoming. I was able to learn how a bodyshop operates. I would recommend this place to anybody looking to get into this trade.
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great Job

Lots to learn in short period of time. Get ready for long hours and cold or hot weather conditions, and Hard manual labor. If your new to the auto body trade I would defiantly recommend this place under the pretense that you're gonna work hard and are prepared for anything

Pros

1 Hour Lunches

Cons

8 hours, Strict, younger people are not taken seriously
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Nice people to work with but

No job/life balance. Takes forever to advance if you ever even do. Management was biased about who got promoted and hired new people above wages of people there a long time with zero experience.

Pros

Good benefits

Cons

Long hours would not let you take breaks and low pay
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good

i worked their for 2 weeks as a favour and the people were great and i would go back. i learned alot about cleaning vehicles and learned how to properly park a lot of vehicles in a small area
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Great Industry and Excellent Staff

This was a great place to work way back when. It was very busy but the people were great. Never a dull moment and great team work!

Pros

Vehicle Repair Discount

Cons

Staff room
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Overall rating

Based on 19 reviews

Ratings by category

2.9 out of 5 stars for Work/Life Balance
2.8 out of 5 stars for Salary/Benefits
2.6 out of 5 stars for Job security/advancement
2.4 out of 5 stars for Management
2.9 out of 5 stars for Culture

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