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My name is Jim and I work for the trugreen in greenville, SC. I noticed how the place was run.

The techs, had to fix leaking hoses out in customers lawns. I was told it was ok to urinate in the back of the spray trucks. I was treated poorly by the sales manager. I was given a dead cell phone.

the uniforms did not fit people there. the trucks never were cleaned. The whole shop was a pig sty. I only worked there for two weeks and not given a chance.

I made some good sales. the sales manager was intimating as he could be. I was driven to customer houses where you were not aloud to solicit. I really never given a chance.

My sales manager Andy treated like I was a dog. Jim Barilovits I wanted very much to do a good job for Trugreen and the manager Mr. Kemp at liked he didnt want me there. Here is one.

dont make the sales guys go out three times and *** the customer off by knocking on their doors three freaking times. Thank you Jim 864-423-**** or jamesbarilovits@***.com

Location: Greenville, South Carolina

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Jon skibo is currently working at the Lansing Mi branch.

Still has the same old habbits.

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He's baaack!!! Yep, that right!

Jon "My Building!" Skibo somehow pulled some strings to get himself re-hired as TruGreen Ops Mgr (essentially, Asst. GM) at the Lansing, MI TruGreen. This happened in the summer of 2013 after getting himself fired from Natural Way for illegally soliciting TruGreen customers from a list that he had stole from TruGreen when he was fired by them!! After Natural Way canned him, he then tried to hire on with Lush Lawn, but they wouldn't take him due to his "checkered" resume!

So, Sikbo still had some incompetent management contacts within TruGreen that were able to forgive & forget and rehire him!

I read in this thread below where someone compared Jon Skibo's temperament to that of Spike TV's Jon Taffer. Personally, I think that Skibo is more like Chris Christie in terms of temper and physical appearance!!!

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does any one know if Jon skibo aka evil scuba is currently employed by true green as of 11-28-12?

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Jon Skibo, General Manager of the Flint, Mich branch was fired back in August 2012. What happened was, after the July 4th holiday, Skibo was told by TruGreen Region Management to lay-off 10 Techs due to lack of work.

Instead, Jon played his usual managerial scam-game that he would jokingly refer to as "hide the weenie". (His own version of cooking the books.) Because what Jon actually did instead, was lay-off only 4 Techs and then "reclassified" the remaining 6 as Outside Salesmen being paid hourly. One of the regular salesmen in the Branch called Corporate to complain about this new "arrangement". Then a few weeks later the new Region Manager/VP came into the Branch to investigate.

Skibo tried to defend himself, and justify his actions, by pointing out that his Branch was the only one in the Michigan Region that was hitting budget. [Skibo was always moved around from one under-performing Branch to another as the Region's trouble-shooter.] Well, the new Region Manager didn't care about Jon's rationale, as he had went against a company directive to LAY OFF 10 Techs. So the VP fired Jon Skibo on the spot. The Branch Marketing (Residential Sales) Manager was in on Skibo's "shell game" and was also fired.

In the past TruGreen always promoted people from within the company. The new trend is to fire veteran managers, and then to hire outsiders, and then train them the proper "Corporate" way of managing.

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Yeah, I was working there, (TruGreen) and was an eyewitness that fateful day that Jon "Cookin Books" Skibo was fired and escorted off the property. He was running the Flint, MI TruGreen branch like it was his own personal business.

One of the things that got him in trouble was that he ignored a Corporate order of NO "Gross Pay Adjustments"! Which is just what he did. Pay checks were just as FAT as him. Guys would make $1000 in sales and get $500 in commission pay out.

As far as Skibo's personality goes, he reminds me of "Bar Rescues" John Taffer on TV's Spike Network. A nice engaging guy one moment and cussing & bullying later on. Needless to say, the day that Skibo was fired was a very humbling moment for him. He was all red-faced and sobbing like a teenager expelled from school.

They took his company pickup away, and gave him a ride home in a Metro Car (Lincoln Taxi). So, fast forward to 2013. Jon Skibo got a job with Natural Way Lawn as a Sales Manager. (His first 3 years with TruGreen was in sales.) So after only a few months of running sales at Natural Way, they fired him for pulling the same sketchy numbers ***.

Plus, he was also violating a provision of TruGreen's "Non-Compete Agreement" by soliciting & stealing TruGreen's active customers for Natural Way. This made the owners of Natural Way nervous that they were going to be sued by TruGreen! Skibo's last sleazy act, was that after he was fired, he quickly downloaded Natural Way's entire customer list onto a thumb-drive. [So that he could hire on with another lawn spray company, and pull the same *** all over again.] The owners saw what he did, and wouldn't let him leave the building before making him hand the thumbdrive over!

BEWARE: TruGreen's bad habits are hard to kick!!!!! :x

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Yep, I was a salesman that worked with (or at least tried) Jon Skibo back when he was an Operations/Senior Service Manager. One thing that really irritated me about him, is when he told the ride-on techs that if the lawn was over 25K, to only treat the front yard!!

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I had the mis-fortune of working with Jon [Evilscuba] Skibo, and his mentor Scott McNeil. Jon was the "protege'" of Scott McNeil; who is now a TG Manager on the west side of Michigan.

Scott's idea of Personnel Relations was to intimidate subordinates with insults, cheap-shots & put-downs. Only to scarcastically ask afterwards.

"Do you feel your being mistreated?" I saw first-hand how Jon Skibo learned alot of his heavy-handed threats and bullying tactics from Scott McNeil. Its ashame the Trugreen keeps these 2 reckless hot-headed Manager, while fireing some good ones that actually gave a positive contribution.

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I am amazed by '''evilscuba''' (real name Jon Skibo) postings on this site trying to defend TruGreen. Jon evilscuba-Skibo hired on with Trugreen in the mid-90's in the Michigan Region as a salesman.

He told a lot of lies & scammed people on that job. Now his comments that TruGreen "goes by the book" and all these posters are "crying lies" is laughable. The scary thing is that Jon Skibo is now an upper level branch manager. And he intimidates his Techs by pulling them in the office and tells them just to fill out Service Sheets that are flagged "Credit Balance" (overpayment), and to turn them in without doing the property.

The customer won't know they they got scammed out of an application, since they accidently over-paid. Now is that by the "book" evilscuba?

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Actually to set the record straight the REAL "evilscuba" that made these posts is an employee named Steve that works as a slimey salesman (boarderline criminal) at a TruGreen branch in Buffalo, NY.

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My letter to trugreen. Can't wait to see if I hear back.

To Whom It May Concern:

 

I called the beginning of April to get a quote from TRU-Green, a day later I receive a phone call from a nice gentleman that actually lives in the area so he was even familiar with our yard. He gave me the quote, answered my questions and I was going to discuss the info with my husband.

 

I discussed with my husband what we can do and we ended up going with a friend of the family for aeration/ de-thatching (since nothing was growing well with all the dead grass underneath) and doing fertilizing ourselves. Our yard looks great, we seeded and fertilized properly after we had the yard done.

 

Two weeks later I receive a phone call from a Manager from Tru-Green in Plainfield, IL from phone number 815-439-****. I told him that I received a quote from someone after I made my initial call and he seemed very bossy demanding who I talked to and what he quoted me. I told him I think his name was Jeff and he lives nearby and does the neighbors homes. I also told him I don’t remember what he quoted me. I told him that we went and had our yard de-thatched and aerated by a friend of the family. He was very rude towards me telling me I can't trust anyone else and de-thatching is the worst thing you can do for your lawn and it tears up baby grass and opens it up for weeds and crab grass. I tried telling him I understand but no baby grass comes up because the dead stuff won't let it and we understand weeds will grow while the new grass comes up. He said if I took proper care of our lawn by cutting it before it got too long we wouldn’t ever have that problem. He said the only time a de-thatching is needed is if you grow your grass so long that you need to cut it with a *** whacker or a former resident did that. He kept cutting me off and saying I destroyed my lawn I told him that we never let the grass get too long and it was sod when we moved in. We have always watered our lawn, seeded, fertilized. He asked me what kind of fertilizer we use and I told him we do the Scots. He went ahead and told me why his fertilizer is better then Scots. Which is probably true but we want to try another year managing on our own. I told him that we are planning on continuing on our own, he told me good luck and hung up.

 

My husband and I were planning on possibly hiring Tru-Green next year for our lawn care needs but after this phone call I will NEVER use Tru-Green and if anyone else mentions your name I will be happy to share my story. I felt absolutely attacked. I cannot imagine a company like yours hiring someone like him. How in the world does he get business with the way he handles his customers. The first gentleman that I spoke with was so nice and made us want to do business with you but this “Manager” destroyed this within one phone call. I didn’t even have to tell him that we were going with someone else before he became rude. He started that after I told him I already received a quote when another person called me from the same company (1 day after my request call not the 2 weeks it took this manager to contact me).

 

I cannot believe this happened. And this Plainfield manager’s site says that his goal is to provide courteous, professional service which is an absolute LIE.

 

 

 

 

Guest

Whatever evilscuba! I worked for Tru Green and they were terrible.

They had me go to customers homes that had concelled years ago! And the customer comes out yelling at me when I just started there. Everywhere you turn a customer hated Tru Green. The only reason people keep hiring Tru Green is because they're too busy to do their own lawn!

The manangers were jerks, and like to talk about every person that works for them. They think their *** don't stink and somebody needs to humble them fast! I used to work for Tru Green and I wouldn't buy their service if they paid ME! And no I wasn't fired...

I quit! :)

Guest

lol! funny how you like cause ur lazy and go fired for being lazy!

trugreen is by the book and would be fined all kinds of money if the trucks were found dirty at all and 2011 they now have truck checks every morning before trucks can leave how lame! ya noobs like you do get treated bad cause guys like us don't want ya messing up are rounts as in slowing us down making us not hit are goal! or having u burn a customs lawn!

when ya start a trugreen they size ya out and get ya 2 set of clothes that are fitted! all and all sucks to be u and sad ya have to cry lies!