Underpaid and highly stressful. - Customer Service Representative RDI Employee Review

2.0
Feb 18, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Hours are fairly consistent, Your coworkers are amazing.

Cons

They don't pay well at all. $11hr is not enough to live on, work week is 32 hours or so a week. The management will tell you one thing, knowing full well things are changing tomorrow. Programs can end at the drop of a hat. A lot of cold calling trying to sell products. The environment is toxic. Your co-workers are what will get you through, you will notice a lot of people that feel trapped. This job drains your soul.

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RDI Response
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Thank you for sharing your comments on your RDI experience. We have been operating as a successful contact center for 42 years. One of the reasons for that is our HUSTLE. We partner with over 100 clients across the country, and yes… sometimes we are asked to make changes on the fly. But we prioritize the well-being of our employees over all else. We offer both full time (35+ hours/week) and Part time (22+ hours/week). We also hope every RDI employee understands that we have a Culture Director (ELLWell) at each site whose door is always open to discuss all manner of concerns. Our focus is to make sure that each employee feels 1. Your job is important, 2. Your voice is heard, and 3. You have an opportunity to grow within the company. You are correct, our employees are the driving energy of RDI.

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
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Pros

Holiday pot lucks (with meat provided by RDI) Will pay for exercise/gym as long as you're willing to meet the requirements (otherwise you pay). Ok benefits Some projects offer remote work after probationary period, including equipment Sales jobs may pay higher than customer service and tech support Everyone is super nice to you in orientation+training (it doesn't last)

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No attention to dietary restrictions for pot luck, causing some people to not be able to enjoy. Definite focus on unhealthy eating with most snacks, meals and beverages in the canteen being crap, and a culture that seems focused on being unhealthy, and enabling obesity. False sense of culture presented during training - real culture becomes obvious after. Claims of "family" style, interest in feedback, inclusiveness and so on largely false. Climate controlled by site director, and they're generally interested in minimizing the cost so you may be too hot/cold. Deceptive culture, two sets of rules - one for the clique of managers, supervisors (glorified team leads) and 'special' employees, the other for everyone else. I.E. Favoritism. You can feel it from the moment you get out of training. Lack of interest in actual feedback, coupled with defensiveness or attacks Dishonesty and some bullying by leadership Very strict rules about bathroom use time (20 min/day). If you have a medical excuse, you can get an exemption so you aren't written up, but you won't be paid for that time in excess of 20 min/day. You're given your supervisor and manager's phone numbers to contact outside of work but good luck getting a response every time you need to contact them! Pathetic training by people with no experience in that area, who are led by onsite directors with no experience in education, either, leaving you potentially ill-prepared for your job. Sub-par salaries, which they blame on the clients. Holidays and holiday pay depend on both RDI rules and client rules, not just RDI, so you may not get vacation pay for some holidays. Very stingy company shoveling money upwards to the C-suite while maybe people in lower positions get crap pay, and some of the people you promote end up giving too much of their personal time to you without proper compensation. I could go on and on....

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