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The job itself wasn't bad, along as you don't mind long hours. For example I was contracted to 30 hours per week, during winter months it was roughly around that sometimes more. However during spring/summer it was more between 60-90hours a week. Occasionally I had asked for a day off after working long hours everyday(apart from sundays) and was told no unless it was a pre booked holiday. The office staff was pleasant people, however I don't think they had authority within the office, everything we would ring up asking for quote or to chase any issues or queries it would take ages to get a response(making days longer and doesn't look very professional infront of customers). All payments had to be made either in advance or over the phone(again not very professional).
Management liked to belittle the drivers always thinking they knew best. Some of the contracts/jobs they take on haven't being thought out properly, sometimes having to unload tonne bags of soil/gravel or stones into the back of a Luton or sprinter type van. The pay wasn't that good, no overtime pay for after contracted hours. When I left they somehow managed to attach a damage deduction to my final wage, having trying to contact the management several times to find out why( I had not damaged any of their property nor did they give me any explanation or evidence) I just chalked it up to a bad experience. Worked at clearabee for 7 months before I gave notice.

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It can be hard dirty work, man handling waste be it sofas, old kitchen units, bins and tipping the waste. 
Sometimes you'll be part of a 2 man team, sometimes you'll be a lone worker. 
Usually a 7am start and quite often you'll be out for 11-12hrs (they take an hour off your day for lunch wether you work through lunch or not). You have to work every other Saturday but you can take a rest day in the week after working it (provided you book it) 
Quite often there is a 30+ minute drive between jobs of which you can do 8-15 jobs a day depending on the size of jobs and distances apart. 
The paperwork is monotonous, tedious and cumbersome but not rocket science 
The vehicles are either great or abismal there's nothing in between, very little servicing is done on them. 
Management can be hard to contact at times as most communication is done via a text app (slack) and they are quite unhelpful on the whole
Very easy to moan about the job but it's not awful and does have it's perks.
You are mostly left alone to your own devices, if you get on well with your team member you can have a good laugh. Customers are usually pleasant (as in all customer roles you can't please everyone) 
They are surprisingly good at paying back expenses (provided you've done the paperwork correctly) 





The way this job is advertised it sounds okay, but get to it and it’s a whole new ball game, the staff don’t care about you the bosses think they can push you around and the ops team think they can tell you how to do your job while they’re sat behind a desk doing nothing but pressure you to do other jobs, they’re very good at breaking the law both on legal driving hours in a day and on weight you have to take pictures of the van to show your full or tell them you feel heavy to get a tip, if you don’t have a decent phone one day you can be told to go home because without one you can’t do the job because they expect you to not only do this job for minimum wage but to get a decent phone contract with tons of data allowance to use your own phone to do their work, I have checked and I was using an average of 35GB a month which is a lot for anyone especially in harder times that we have at the moment. You’re handballing rubbish from food places pubs hotels shops bins and get spoken to in a Terrible way at most these places. If you have a soul and value a life outside of work don’t go to this company they will take you for everything and be paid minimum wage for the privilege 

The worst company I’ve ever worked for, send you out in vans that wouldn’t pass an MOT, don’t care about the load of your vans, just cross your fingers and hope that forza don’t pull you as you will be on your own. Free parking? Employees aren’t allowed to use the staff car park, only office staff. Toilet? There’s a lovely clean toilet in the building but the employees must use a portaloo outside. This company treats you like a piece of dirt on their shoe. You can expect to be asked to remove clinical waste even though you won’t be insured to do so. On my second day I was driving uninsured even after I questioned management whether I was insured and they confirmed yes even though I hadn’t given them any documents to even prove I had a license, then to receive a call at 3pm to say I can’t drive as I’m not insured haha. All the lads out in the vans are sound and all do their best to help, but I didn’t find one person who enjoyed working for this company everybody had the same outlook that the place was a disgrace. Do not waste your time with this company honestly invest somewhere where you will be appreciated and not treated like a peasant.

This company lacks structure and respect for staff members. You are expected to pick things up without any form of training. The systems are given to you and all you are told is "have a go", only to be ridiculed when a mistake is made. Surely the best thing to do would be to train people so that when the make decisions, you don't lose money and upset customers. What Clearabee need to do is treat and train their staff properly and they will take care of everything else. 

As for the drivers, I have never seen resource managed so poorly. There we drivers who live in the North East of England being sent to Scotland to come home and then be sent back on the same day. Crazy! 

For me they have lot to learn and the senior management need to not think that they are always right because they clearly were not.

Lied to about the job from recruitment team. Never met anyone from the office. Never met my manger and he ignored all emails and messages. Expect you to work from 7am - 10pm when contracted to 7 hours per day. 
You have 1 hour unpaid and if you work that hour they will not pay you. Send you to jobs that you cannot do by yourself and tell you via a messaging app to just get on with it, heath and safety means nothing to clearabee at all, if you have a family I would not recommend this job. This job is for someone young to gain driving experience for your CV. All communication is done by a messaging app if something serious is to happen there is no phone number to ring for assistance, when you message the office you will spend the next 45 minutes waiting for a response. Its very unorganised and amateur company that doesn't care for workers at all constantly cutting corners and try to find reasons to blame you for there mistakes 

What is the best part of working at the company?
Absolutely nothing at all they the worst unorganised  company I have ever worked for in my entire life stay well clear unless you like been out all hours under the sun jn a unroad worthy van 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
No communication unorganised can't even ring when they is a problem leave you standed for hours when the van brakes down 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Don't give you ppe apart from a pair gloves and expert you to empty rotten  stinken bins with out even a mask and Don't care how it's done  and don't care at all about your personal heath 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Rubbish  have you out for a good 12 hours a day send you houndeds of miles away from the area you suppose to be working in and send you miles away at any given time of the day with out a thought  so this is not a job with someone who has a family life and values they life in dangerous vans

If you have no will to live, don't care about your license and enjoy shxt wages join clearabee.

Me and my co-worker were told over the phone from management that "breaks don't happen here" due to some absolute trash transport act that they couldn't back up claims to. 

They change your run so you have to travel in excess of 1hr30 to at 3.30pm even though you start at 6am. Taking you well into an 8pm finish. Safe to say we refused to move and I told them where to shove it.

Controllers have 0 clue about the law when loading as they expect you to load in excess of a gross of 4 tons (which will ruin your license).  If you send pictures of the load they will circle an empty spot and tell you that next job will fit.

I'm a mechanic to trade which is irrelevant to the job but these vans shouldn't be on the road. If they don't break down they will kill someone or you!!

Got a problem with your van? Send a video to them even if it's a turbo leak 😂👌 no bother!

Overall, stay clear of this shady company!!!!

The work this company has is very easy to do you get to see different places on a daily basis that’s the only good thing about this company.
The office team and managerial team don’t look after the drivers at all they say they care but they don’t they make you drive around vans that’s not safe I but that’s not there problem because there making money. But when you injure your self doing work for this company and then you see a doctor who tells you that you must take time off to let your injury heal so I put my fit note in the following day they sack me saying they are not willing to pay anyone on long term sick bare in mind it was only a 6 week fit note then have the cheek to say I can apply for my job again once my injury which I got from doing work for them in healed. 
I hope this helps a lot of people who are  thinking about this type of work 
Please look for a different company to work for if you want this type of job 

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