Working at Extra Space Storage in Palmdale, CA: 1 Employee Job Reviews by Real Employee working in Palmdale, CA Area

"I worked for Extra Space for almost 5 years, and it was the worst 5 years of my life. The job is extremely stressful. I had my life and fellow employees lives threatened numerous times, and the worst part is the District Manager could care less. The turnover is unbelievable, expect to run a facility by yourself a lot, which I need to add includes helping out all customers, cleaning property, cleaning units, making collection calls, walking the entire property at least twice, and other random basic upkeep on the property on a daily basis. While some days this might not be too bad, there are days where you are so swamped that you can only get a couple things done, and of course if you are super busy and get off late, be prepared to have to defend yourself. As I mentioned the turnover is so great that you may be by yourself for months at a time running a large facility. Since I quit this job, I have watched 8 positions open on career websites just for my district alone, and it has just been about 6 months! Also the company seems to reward flaky employees. I watched employees who were new miss weeks of work in the first 3 months and still not get fired. This happened numerous times, while employees who had been worth the company for a long time continued to have their job threatened. Also if you are female, be super perky, or you will be told to be more upbeat. I was literally told I needed to be more perky by my District Manager, and yet not a single male employee was told this, and while the Male managers in my district were great employees, by no stretch of the term would you consider them perky. Also if you are female, do not reach out for anything higher up then store manager in the company, or rather anything other then a white male between the ages of 30 and 40. In short Extra Space does not appreciate its employees, and is progressively worse company to work for, and you do not want to work for them."