Legit Work-at-Home Opportunity - Inbound Customer Service Agent Work At Home Alorica Employee Review

3.0
May 31, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Paid training, friendly PALs (supervisors), potential to earn up to $9.00/hr if on the phone nonstop, wages are subsidized in order to meet minimum wage, unlike many other WAH companies who ONLY pay you by the minute of talk time. Ability to trade hours via the scheduling website, even at the last minute (for example, it's 3:45 and you have something come up. You can post your 4:00-5:30 shift for trade on the site, and head out the door at 4:00).

Cons

Minimum wage, halfway IMPOSSIBLE to get hours, have to keep refreshing the schedule page in hopes that hours will become available, when you should/could be enjoying your off time. They are unpredictable when making hours available for the week, and some lucky people happen to be on when they're made available and snatch up all the hours, even ones they don't want, then they make them available at the last minute in half-hour increments at their leisure. This isn't fair at all to everyone else. You're forced to stick to a fake-sounding script, including multiple upsells per product, and are randomly monitored. Someone will call in to buy sunglasses and you're trying to talk them into a timeshare near Disney World. The only support available during calls is chat support, which is very slow to respond.

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1.0
Jun 16, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Lunch lasts for 1 hour. Some managers are nice. Compensation is not bad for a call center job.

Cons

Contradictory set of info provided during training compared to later on, and sometimes you get penalized for providing honest information that you aren't prohibited from giving out. There's about seven million rules that you are expected to follow, and many of them are dumb. Some managers are annoying/jerks. Management gets really frustrated that customers leave from conversations dissatisfied even though we are literally calling them as Collections Agents for a credit card company to tell them they are thousands of dollars in debt. If you get 2 Compliance fails they fire you (and Compliance fails aren't just for regulatory things the company can get sued for). Expected to follow regulations that do not even apply to our particular company. (Newsflash! HIPAA does not apply to credit card companies!). Now if you get 4 dissatisfaction surveys from customers they fire you. (Getting fired at this job is extremely easy! I nearly got fired when I was reluctant to take a transfer call I was NOT authorized to take and upper management said I wasn't being a "good teammate" because of my reluctance to take the call.) Dissatisfaction surverys are also ridiculously hard to dispute. Customers are extremely horrible, foul-mouthed, stupid, vindictive and nasty. You get like 2 hours of PTO per month, which is about 2 days out of the entire year. No holiday pay - they will just send you home with no pay on Christmas. People steal your lunch if you put it in the company fridge. There's an oppressive atmosphere of complete misery that hangs over the whole building. If the company decides to move on to a different call center, they call a townhall meeting the day that it happens without any advance notice to let all the call center agents that they are being furloughed or let go. Also, they have confirmed finding a bed bug problem in the building. Run, run away!

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