Management out of touch, customers lowest priority. - Patrolman RAC Employee Review

1.0
Nov 4, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Start and finish at home. - Left alone if you get on and work hard. - Rewarding when you get to help someone. - Meeting lots of different people. - Other patrols; best part of the business, knowledgeable, caring, customer focused, understand procedures, member needs and needs of the business.

Cons

- Pay is lowest of all the large breakdown/recovery companies. - Working conditions constantly getting worse, management making decisions that negatively affect patrols and members. - Upper management so out of touch with reality, don't understand the patrol role at all. - Having to deal with members who have been left for hours or abandoned by the company. - Threatened with disciplinary if you don't force enough sales of SMR bookings, even if it's unethical. - SMR technicians hired are semi skilled, many comebacks/mistakes, hugely overpriced, very difficult to sell a poor product you don't trust. - Different departments fighting against each other, blaming each other got mistakes, leading to further members being forgotten or abandoned. - Call handlers and dispatch have stopped caring. Jobs constantly have incorrect information, location, symptoms etc. Leading to further member delays. Office don't read job notes or understand what goes on roadside at all, uncooperative and argumentative, no care for members at all.

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RAC Response
7mo
Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback and for your continued service. We’re pleased to hear you value the independence of the role and the camaraderie among patrol colleagues, as these are core strengths of our business. That said, we are concerned by the issues you’ve raised in the 'considerations' section - these are important topics and we want to ensure your voice is heard through the correct channels in order to find solutions where possible. As a current employee, we strongly encourage you to raise these concerns directly with our People Team or through your line manager so we can address them properly. Internal feedback channels allow us to investigate and take action where needed. We want you to know that constructive feedback like yours helps us identify where we need to do better. Thank you again for sharing your perspective. Please reach out internally so we can work together on solutions.

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