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Tervita

Tervita has been in the news multiple times since their rebranding. They wasted millions of dollars on developing a name and putting all divisions under an umbrella and trying to sponsor everything they could get their hands on at Calgary Stampede. They planned to issue an IPO. They decided the "market wasn't favorable" but picked an internal share value greatly exceeding what the market would bear despite HUGE debt.

Shortly after their rebranding, they had to fire ~400 people in one day, mostly in the Calgary office. People had their things packed and everyone was tense and multiple people left in tears. A quick google search will come up with news articles referencing the massive layoffs. Since then they have had to sell off and close a number of divisions and had additional days of mass firings.

They shut down their "Employee Unit Ownership Plan" recently. They matched up to a 5% RRSP contribution in company stock. When they fired all of their employees (and had a mass exodus of a number of high level managers and below quitting) they were limited to pay out the funds in this EUOP program to $250k per month total. Because some of the highest managers in the company had hundreds of thousands in this program, the wait time to receive your money was up to 8 years. They valued their company stock internally at $54/share which was ridiculously overpriced. Since cancelling the program, they lowered their internal share price to $21/share (effectively lowering the payouts from the program to under half of what was owed). Despite requesting withdrawals at the $54/share rating and being put on the waiting list for withdrawals, people who worked at Hazco or other divisions for most of their careers and were counting on a lot of this money for retirement or college funds, now are receiving less than half of the savings they had been waiting for. This doesn't seem legal yet no one at the company HR or elsewhere will talk about it.

Tervita hosts a terrible work environment, anybody worth their salt has already jumped ship and found jobs at competitor companies, the turnover rates are extremely high. Their Accounts Receivable and Payable and accounting systems are a mess, they will sometimes be 6 months behind on receipt and release of payments which causes cash flow issues and just general confusion.

The CEO has also left the company recently.

I wouldn't recommend working for any division in this company to my worst enemy.

Tasks involved: 
	Promote and coach compliance with Tervia’s Corporate Occupational Health and Safety (OH&S) program “Safety matters in all that we do” at the field level
	Ensure operational compliance with client requirements and provincial OH&S regulations
	Be cognizant of and adhere to any site specific safety requirements
	Partake in all safety related meetings including: daily tail gates, weekly safety meetings, site specific safety plans (SSSP), per-work hazard assessments, job hazard assessments (JHA)
Support:
	Spend time in the field working with supervisors and employees – coach them on safety related activities
	Provide support during the investigations (Tap Root) incidents and near misses while ensuring proper follow up and implementation of corrective actions
	Provide support and steward to Project Managers and Senior Management on Health and Safety related activities
	WCB information for project managers, supervisors and customers, as requested
	Assist the project management team with the safety advise when bidding on projects

Managing Health and Safety:
	Administer Tervita’s Disability Management Program and coordinate WCB activities, as required
	Assist in maintaining safety equipment, documents and manuals 
	Conduct internal and external safety audits
	Assist in maintaining OH&S record keeping system, including tracking of incidents / accidents, training, trending and statistics
	Provide assistance in creating, maintaining and update Job Hazard Analysis (JHA)
	Where required, coordination of PPE supplies by working with local suppliers

Reporting:      
	Complete initial Workers’ Compensation Board (WCB) claims reports
	Report and investigate incidents and near misses while ensuring proper follow up and implementation of corrective actions

Everything about this company is poorly structured and poorly executed. Outdated and irrelevant systems that are not capable of working together create much more work than is required. As a result, the company is very heavy on administrative and coordination staff. 

There’s a heavy swath of long timers that seem to have drank the Kool-aid most of them having little experience working for any other company. This creates one of the worst workplace cultures I’ve ever encountered. 

Middle and lower management are largely incompetent and micro-managers. Upper management is constantly changing direction making any type of continuous improvement impossible. In fact, I didn’t meet a single person who worked for this company who had even a basic understanding of CI methods. Any suggestions for incremental improvements were consistently disregarded in favour of the “this is how we’ve always done it” approach. 

Field staff like most service companies are the backbone of their revenue but they are poorly paid and expected to work long hours with little notice and for a fairly poor wage. As one might expect, turnover is quite high. 

Pay is low by energy industry standards but the benefits are good but the co-pay is high. Expectations for salaried employees outpace compensation. This company has developed a very American style management. Employees are for the most part treated like numbers. Hired and laid off with little regard for them as people or attempts at alternative placement. 

Work for this company in the short term if you have no other choice, but look for a better place to have a career.

Tervita was once profitable and growing, in the last few years mismanagement has driven the company into the ground. Repeated layoffs, foolish spending on expensive marketing during Stampede, recent cancellation of the employee RRSP matching, bad decisions are everywhere. Tervita is currently selling bonds at $10, in case the company survives they'll have to payout $100. The chances of survival without debt restructuring are ~ 10%, shareholders will lose money. Either bankruptcy or restructuring (probably bankruptcy) as the outcome. Employees are lucky the pensions are with a third party. 

The Richmond office is an example of the inept management, a small group of ring-leaders harass and abuse underlings. Management carries on inappropriate relationships with staff, flirting during meetings, groping at xmas parties, and other bad behavior are more important than managing profitability and hard work. HR is a disaster-, if harassment is reported the complainant is promptly "laid-off" this is common. Bad behavior is rewarded, uneducated people call the shots, favouritism is the norm, back-stabbing, lying.... nothing is out of the question.

I worked for Tervita for 10 months and I was laid off without cause but they are hiring. Here is why.

First, the pay is alright or so-so but it depends on what you can negotiate for a contract.
Secondly, this company claimed to make billions of dollars in revenue but it can not support the simplest need by taking care of its employees such as company vehicles, tools and anything useful.
Thirdly, the mindset is still New Alta which is a budget company that trying to survive and will make you work more than 12 hours without offering assistance.
Fourth, they have hired the wrong Management and Supervision to succeed forward because they do nothing but sit around, don't communicate with each other and are not proactive. It's a Me-Only Environment.
Fifth and Finally, you will be laid off because you are a threat to creating improvement or making changes that make sense.

All that can be said for Tervita, in head office is it pays the bills.  Management (especially in Info Tech) has no bloody clue about staff management, their skills or how to manage people.  It is even doubtful they even have a clue what the skills inventory of their staff are.  They might if they ever bothered to ask.  There is no salary increases in at least 2 years, layoffs, but wow have they got money to waste on consultants for work that; a) their management should have the skills, if not..hit the road. b) their staff could do if they knew what they had skills for or even invest in their staff.
Typical workday is keep head low, shut up, collect your paycheck. Oh and fight boredom.
Suggest not to work here if you expect honest management that truly care about you.  If you like self serving, management that lies, has no focus, then this is certainly the place to be.

Tervita should be a better company than it is. Leadership across several major transitions have been unable to execute, lack vision and are perpetually rooted in the prior glory days of the oil patch. The organization lacks a coherent culture and values. Major structural changes have failed to address problems within some key operational leadership positions. The company lacks even a hint of diversity, preferring to remain rooted in the ways if the old boys club, but lacking the customary level of success and financial gains.  What should be a positive story built on a strong portfolio of assets and competitive position is instead an uninspiring illustration of what not to do. It’s difficult to find many with a tenure exceeding several years employment with this company and its easy to see why.

Safety was the main focus in the morning starting out our day with a moment to reflect before starting work.  Would then proceed with our daily tasks of processing crude oil and byproducts(water and solids).
Testing oil purity and density and then treating and blending(upgrading) the product until it met pipeline specifications and daily volumes.  
Easy to get along with management and co-workers with a company that supported health and safety in and out of the work environment.
The hardest part of the job was environmental conditions in certain repairs and maintenance requirements.
Most enjoyable was the adversity each day of different processes used to process the various product that came into the facility.

My day to day duties consist of helping the Project Managers and Project Coordinators through the lifecycle of any given projects. I create Purchase Orders in order to get our vendors paid. I also invoice to our clients. My duties also consist of providing detailed reports to management in regards to utilization of personnel & equipment, payroll entries, and much more.

I learned to work with a very good program which is PeopleSoft. It has made me more efficient in doing my job.

The Management team is amazing, they are there to help us.

The most enjoyable part of the job is that I am part of a great team of efficient and knowledgeable people from who I can learn from.

Typical day is always busy, need to make management decisions all the time and to make sure one is doing the right thing.

Change happens daily, suck it up and deal with it.

I belive i have had good managemtn people above me and i like to belive i am a good manager also.

Co-workers are usually fun to be around, if not make a atmosphere that is.

Hardest part of the job is dealing with change, and adapting to dealing with everyone's problems.

Move enjoyable part of the job is when co-workers or my direct reports remind myself of how good of a job we/I have been doing.  Makes you know that you/we are doing the right thing and making the busniess successful and other progression other people to be successful to reach there goals.

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