Worst job ever! - Customer Service Representative Alorica Employee Review

1.0
Mar 21, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Decent amount of in-house promotion, if you can stand the job long enough Better pay than most telecommunication jobs, but it's still TELECOMMUNICATIONS! Bonuses for performance

Cons

Too many trashy people work there Management does not know how to be professional, i.e. keeping personal life separate from business, unfair treatment depending on whether or not they like you, urine poor training experience Bonuses were almost impossible to attain, since corporate standards were so rigid. It got to where customer service did not even matter; if you forgot one word on the script you lost bonus option, even if the word had nothing to do with telecommunication legal protocol. AT&T stringent script adherence screwed a lot of good workers out of bonuses, as well as leading to their termination.

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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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