Bartlett

Good company,ample training and safety.Very structured!I know a lot of really awesome people that work for them and that worked for them!!I do not think you can go wrong checking them out......but they are not a good fit for everybody.
 
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Good company,ample training and safety.Very structured!I know a lot of really awesome people that work for them and that worked for them!!I do not think you can go wrong checking them out......but they are not a good fit for everybody.

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I would agree with everything that Paul says here.
 
I think they are a very resourceful company and offer benefits. Quality of personnel at each specific office is what matters most I think.
 
I did three years at Bartlett, very progressive company.

Good place for a young climber to learn proper technique.

We actually had training days where you could learn how to block down big wood, how to use Hobbs/GRS, introduction to SRT.

Bartlett's lab, right where you live, is non plus ultra, smart people doing real reseach on real tree issues.

They are well geared up, do good work.

So why did I leave? Locally top-heavy, getting up that corporate tree meant cutting out someone above you.

Also, promises of this job, that rate of pay, were always referred to head office, and after a perfect performance report, third promise of a substantial raise, "Sorry, head office says NO.", I was done.

If you are new to the biz, great place to learn, but once you are accomplished it is like any other international corporation, who you know is more important than what you know.

Would I go back to Bartlett: They'd have to call me.

Northwind
 
I agree with taitree. Everyone Iv'e come to meet that has worked there are great individuals. With that said, some more successfull than others......actually I had alot to say about this topic, F'it

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introduction to SRT.

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Wow! I'm impressed! cool

Ps- Barlett Lab.... Bees knees
 
I started off my tree career at Bartlett. $11.00/hr draggin brush. I had a family to support and the outdoors is for me. Good company , good training, they even sent me to school. I now own and operate my own tree company. It's all what you make of it.
 
I work for Bartlett and think they are the best thing going in these parts. We have a good benefit package the pay is okay and the training is good as well.Our equipment is taken care of well and its not too beat up. I like it here...
 
I work for Bartlett and I am very happy. I first worked for them out of Woodstock, VT and now out of Wolfeboro, NH. I have been able to advance myself in my career with ISA certs and along w/that comes advances in pay. Like Inztrees said, GREAT bennys. I got no complaints 3 years runnin. Bartlett is full of great talented individuals w/ lots of knowledge to learn from. Bartlett is a tight knit family that I am as of now glad to say that I am apart of.
 
I worked for bartlett for two some as I was going to school and enjoyed it. They've got a lot of good information and with the resource lab have a vary good educational support group. I would say that it all depends on the office manager. Our office manager was kind of a pain and it got to be all about numbers.. the main one being the number of dollars that was going into his pocket. Overall I loved the company and there was a good group of guys there.
 
I start there this monday as a foreman. so far everything i read and the meetings ive had with them have been wonderful. they are a large established co. with good benifits, competitive pay and lots of training. ill let you kno how i like it after the first week.
 
If you do go with them hold out on getting your cdl, isa cert, and spray license. You top out pretty quick. Wait those 3 years and get raises based on skills and merit then hit them up for the real money. Push for going to the lab and foreman training then get the certs and all the other goodies, they cannot decline you because of your wage. Title change is huge so get as many of those as you can, ground man, climber, foreman, spray tech, etc.

Overall a very good company to start. If you ask around long enough not too many people end up staying with them for prolonged periods of times. Only the people promoted to sales man. I make the joke everyone has worked for Bartlett before, because almost all of us have.

Everyone is right, when they say it depends on the office. I was at the Va office in Willamsburg for 2 years and then the Bala office in Pa for 6+ months. They could have been entirely different companies. It all depends on your manager. Also the safety trainer has a lot to do with what is provided and approved just because it make sense and could make things ten times easier it doesn't mean its the right thing for the company. You have to think in terms of the greater good. Not being able to tie your own lanyard or your own eye n eyes was stupid, but I could see the other side of that fence.

Great place to start and I don't regret one day.
 
Be careful what you say criticism wise in regard to these big companies you might be working for. They (managers, regional managers, administrators, etc) do surf these forums and the things you might say here could be brought up in the office. I know this for a fact because it did happen to me. I'm not going to mention company names, but my manager did approach me about a couple posts on here because managers higher than him told him to do so. Nothing i said was disrespectful or slanderous, it was just my honest opinion. So much for free speech. Basically, the company and job are what you make it...it varies office to office. If you are the type to play by your own rules even if it rocks the boat, you might not like the response you get from management.
 
If my earlier post on this thread sounds too negative, there are two things I'd like to add, while retracting nothing:

1. I was working for Bartlett when it became clear I would require reconstructive surgery on my wrist. No acute injury, just a chronic condition that crept up over years and years. Bartlett not only stood behind me during my down time, their Admins pushed ALL the paperwork for me, made countless phonecalls to set up interviews with insurance and Compo reps, set me up with the most complete recovery physio I could imagine and worked with me through my extremely limiting back-to-work rehab program.

I owe them deep gratitude for that. I've seen how similar situations were dealt with at other large and small Tree Companies and there is no comparison. In employee care, Bartlett walks the walk.

2. Yes, if you work at Bartlett, you WILL do things the Bartlett way. No, that doesn't leave a lot of room for personal expression or technique, but all things considered, their methods are correct, science based, and backed up by a large accumulated database of statistical fact.

There is a good deal I will miss about working at Bartlett, but fitting into a tight mold is not one of them.

3. OK, three things I'd like to add: About this time last year, I met a young fellow on another Arborist Forum who had zero experience or even exposure to tree climbing, but was fascinated by the idea. I met with him one weekend, looked at some trees, talked about trees and gave him a copy of The Tree Climbers Companion, told him to read it and practice some knots.

Arranged to meet him again the next weekend under a large Bigleaf Maple I know well. When it was clear he'd done his homework, I got him up in the tree on a carefully supervised rec climb. A few jitters at 40', but did pretty good for a first climb.

When we got back to the ground, he was full of enthusiasm wanted to know when/where/how he should start working with trees.

I really only had two possible answers: School or....Bartlett.

He's at Bartlett and prepping to write his CA.

Good for him.

Northwind
 
Thanks guys. Not looking for anyone's dirty laundry. I think I got the answers that I was looking for.
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