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Miller Waste Systems

What is the best part of working at the company?
Long hour's longer in the HEAT and COLD 
“Best part of the DAY “Getting rewarded with extra work because other coworkers can’t finish their routes mostly from long Tim Hortons breaks, not actual truck breakdowns. Yippee.!

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Turnover really high BAD Operation  Manager
Trying to be a professional liar 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Toxic Environment
	Great pay, terrible leaders.
	Good staff, bad management.
	Strong crew, weak leaders.
	Safety talk, chaos inside.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?

A workday usually starts with a quick safety meeting where management talks about protocols, expectations, and productivity targets. The messaging sounds polished, but employees often feel it doesn’t match what happens on the floor or on the road.

Supervisors generally try to keep things organized and support their crews, but they’re often juggling conflicting instructions from upper management. You might hear them quietly venting about unrealistic expectations or last-minute demands from above.

As the day goes on, production pressure ramps up. Workers may feel pushed to prioritize speed over proper safety practices, knowing that management mainly tracks numbers and route completion times. Problems or concerns reported to leadership don’t always seem to get addressed consistently.

The environment can be tense especially if employees feel leadership issues are being ignored or covered up. Rumors and whispered conversations replace clear communication. Morale becomes something that depends more on coworkers than on company culture.

By the end of the day, the people doing the actual work support each other, but many go home feeling burned out, undervalued, or frustrated with the disconnect between “what the company says”

My experience working at Miller Waste Systems in Dartmouth was deeply disappointing, primarily due to management practices and a concerning approach to safety and employee well-being. Early on, suffered a workplace injury. Instead of ensuring it was reported promptly and that I received appropriate care or modified duties immediately, the issue was seemingly ignored. ended up working on top of this injury for several months, worsening the condition. Management was aware of my financial needs and exploited this. They allowed, and even encouraged, me to work excessive hours, including a stretch of 40+ consecutive days without a single day off, by offering extra weekend shifts helping other routes. While needed the money, later realized they should not have allowed such a schedule, which completely disregarded labour standards and my own well-being. Eventually, my injury progressed to the point where could no longer perform my regular duties. The "modified duties" was assigned felt like busywork rather thana genuine accommodation sitting in an office manually organizing route stops by distance. This is a task that could easily be automated and didn't feel like a productive use of time or a real effort to keep me meaningfully employed while I recovered. The overall culture prioritizes speed over safety. To meet the demanding route times, there's implicit pressure to cut corners and bend safety rules. Trying to work completely safely often means falling behind schedule. Furthermore, bringing up concerns or reporting issues with procedures or personnel is frowned upon, the safety meetings are all smoke and mirrors, contributing to a workplace environment filled with unresolved issues and unnecessary drama ("radio and locker room drama"). 

I worked at Miller Waste for a couple of months on the streets. It's a very physically demanding job with an extremely high turnover rate.

Here's a breakdown of what I felt were the pro's and con's

Pro's
- Physical job, you will be in really good shape as you will be lifting between 20-50 lbs of recycling and compost in all types of weather conditions.
- Pay, if you are coming into this job as a DZ driver with no experience, you won't find better pay anywhere else as far as I've looked, especially in the GTA and surrounding area, it's a great place to bolster your resume and learn to drive a D class vehicle with air brakes. If you want overtime, you could be bringing home over 2k per pay easily.

Pro or Con
- If you get along with your partner it can make or break your day, you will be in a vehicle or on the back of one with your partner in control of how your day goes. If you scored a good partner, hang onto them, you will have some awesome days, if you don't. Pray.

Cons
- You will be working in some of the worst weather conditions, prepare yourself as management is pretty old school and will show you no mercy, sick, injured, doesn't matter. You are replaceable. Remember that, keep your head down and do your job. If this doesn't sound good to you, it isn't the place for you.
- Just as this job will keep you in shape, it will slowly destroy your body, hardly anyone lasts for more than a few years here, I could barely do a few months and a large majority of people barely last a few days.

If you are applying here, do your homework. It's not the worst job out there I'm sure, but with the financial rewards it comes with come risks to yourself so be aware of that as it could be a great stepping stone in your career or your final one.

The Hillsdale yard is a 4 day work week with optional friday, typically 10 - 12 hour days, depending on the rotation, with a 3 day weekend which is nice. The pay is okay, the benefits are also decent as well. Not a place you really want to retire as the pension isn't good, next to no room for advancement or raise in pay. Company doesn't care about their drivers, management and supervisors constantly bully and shout you down if you have any issue with them and take no accountability for their actions. Company is very anti union and will fire you if you are caught talking about one. Some of the drivers are nice and made some friends while working there, some are miserable and lazy and bring down the morale of everyone else in the work place. The county fines the company if they aren't able to collect some residents garbage, but even when the weather is terrible the company still pressures you to go down, some roads to collect the material. The company constantly makes you sign paperwork to take any sort of liability off them.  Miller Waste claims , there is no higher priority than their people. They are committed to maintaining a diverse, collaborative and respectful work environment while providing the appropriate resources and opportunities for their people. Miller waste claims they are committed to maintaining a diverse, collaborative and respectful work environment, and provide the appropriate resources and opportunities to their people. They aim to provide a supportive culture that fosters continuous growth and development, None of this is true.

A typical day at work here is showing up at 5:45-6am doing getting your assigned route for the day and heading out to inspect your truck before starting your day.

You can service as many as 1200 houses a day as a driver/loader it can very physically and mentally demanding since you're constantly paying attention to your surroundings and other vehicles on the road, while also maintaining awareness of your helper/partner on the rear of the truck

When you're outside collecting whether it be yard waste, garbage or recycling you can deal with all kinds of elements from extreme heat to freezing temperatures you don't stop for weather you just drive accordingly. 

It can be heavy and extremely exhausting your first couple of weeks but you adapt.

Management at times depending on the location can leave a lot to be desired whether it be lacking interpersonal skills, or compassion  but they also have a job to do which can be high stress at times the fact of the matter is they are not there to be your friend all the time if at all. Just keep your head down, do the job to the best of your ability you'll be fine.

Work place culture is also location dependent but for the most part you work with a lot of great guys who will do their best to guide you and help you out. 

The hardest part of the job is the consistent lifting of heavy bags and bins 50lbs+ repeatedly every house. The most enjoyable part is the pay at the end of the two week period. And occasionally positive interaction and conversations with residents.

I was approached for a position in this company, while I was already working for another local company. I was given a good speach and was promised alot of support...not at all! Coming into this, they forgot to mention the mess this place was in.  Especailly the huge pile of paperwork that was months behind and the very unhappy staff who had already given up. Basically, I felt I was fed to wolves with no support or warning. He did manage to try and come once a week for a visit only to see him acting like a "bull in a china shop" and never taking the time to actually listen but only to be negative, ignorant and arrogant. It was very hard to focus on my primary duties with the catch up of paperwork plus the work load that happens daily as it is, as well dealing with a change over to a new system which held up the process to complete and made it difficult being I was new to the company. Definetly was not given enough sufficient time or support to complete the "huge" task that was unexpected going into this. The support and feedback was absolutely terrible. Not once was I asked how I was doing or what has been accomplished. When he asked question and I tried to explain or answer , I was beliittled and spoken down to. I walked into this mess I didn't create it. I went in drowning just trying to keep my head above water and when it came close to my three months and things were looking up that maybe I could focus on the job, I was let go...Definietly not given a fair chance!!
Small town, not too many jobs available...not cool management!!

First thing in the morning a pre trip inspection is done and the daily paper work is filled out properly on the truck assigned for the days activities collecting curbside materials such as paper,cardboard, glass and aluminum.
I servicing approx 1000 homes over the course of a 8-12 hour day in any weather conditions making sure that safety plays a big part as the operation takes place in the City of London in traffic and around busy areas where people are always present.
In the recycling industry you gain a vast knowledge of how to recycle better and change your ways in how you dispose of everyday products.
Management continues to try and make each day a productive and safe enviroment to work and doing this job on the day to day basis is grueling at times and takes a strong work ethic and team effort to make sure the job gets done in a safe and timely manner.
Co-workers play a vital part in this industry as it itakes a team to get the job done as each member is assigned a route and until the routes are completed, no one goes home. If co-workers are away then the rest of the team picks up the slack thus making it a longer day.
The hardest part of the job is the routing in each map as it plays a key part in doing the job safe and in a timely fashion.
The part of the job that I enjoy is working with my co-workers and dealing with the residents on the road.

The job is good for someone that is very hands on/physical and likes to be independent while they work. It's peaceful in that there's minimal supervision and you only have a partner to deal with or you might be on a one man truck. The 4 day work weeks are what make this job very appealing. The job can be a very good job depending on the individual.

There can be stress though. The job can be physically taxing on the body day in and day out, especially if you do garbage. Your finish times are unpredictable at times and you have to expect to stay late and continue working, even if you're mentally and physically exhausted for the day. 

I find the company to be struggling financially as they're very reactive instead of proactive with repairs and manpower. Trucks break down daily and they'll only get the minimal attention required to get them back on the road. Even if the truck has obvious issues, it won't be dealt with until it fully breaks down, which can be very annoying and at times, unsafe and unfair to the community at large. 

The work culture is pretty good but the lack of resources ie. extra trucks or man power can cause stress among employees. Overall the job can be good depending on how you look at it. You get paid overtime every day after 330. This job helped me clear my school debt within a year. The money is there to be made if you're willing to work. You can even work 5 days a week if you so choose. 

The job works for me but i know it's not for everyone.

The company is pretty good, the management supervisers at the cambridge yard are very polite and chill. The only few issues is if you are very good at running your recycling maps the chances of you getting placed on a relaxing garbage truck will never hapen if you suck at your maps and you do not perform depends on who you are you will get promoted to a garbage truck or let go, that makes no sense..... There is a bit of favoritism and it is really sad that during the christmas season you are forced to come in on a saturday and work the best part is the co workers are down to earth and extreamly cool and we all get along very well overall it is a okay place to work for we should be getting paid more money on Recycling as it is a one person operation and way more stressfull on your body the garbage position has a loader who does all the heavy lifting all the other person does is drive and the driver makes more money this should def change moving foward

I got this job thru a temp last spring as my first real job. I’ve always wanted to be a garbageman ever since I was a kid. Its a great job if you enjoy working outdoors and being in shape, and the long hours every day leads to plenty of overtime. Only bad thing is that they don’t provide steel toe boots but gloves they do provide. It’s quite easy to master this job by setting a good pace of picking the bags and bins into the back of the truck. The 4 day workweek is also nice as you get Monday off to spend time with family. It’s a seasonal job as well so in winter they aren’t in need of helpers until next spring. A typical day involves loading the truck twice, average of 12tons of garbage a day. When you finish your map you get sent to help someone else’s map to help them finish faster

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