TELUS is great... if you start at the right time and befriend the right people... - Anonymous employee TELUS Employee Review

4.0
Aug 12, 2008
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great environment with lots of recognition and reasons to perform to the best of your abilities. TELUS has provided a great base for creating strong teams, my office in particular has great employees and i have found is an easy place to find opportunity and success. The key is to find the things you love about the office you are in and to latch on to them. Each office in TELUS has a very different set of skills needed and a very different way of dealing with employee success and failure. I have found that TELUS has done an excellent job of keeping me happy in my position. I feel that I would have the opportunity to move up if I so chose to and would have the support behind me to help with that.

Cons

A large line is drawn between management and workers. Some mangers do find the time to come down to our level, but on a general note, the higher up employees are disrespectful to the rights of the workers. The turnover in my office of TELUS is incredibly high and it seems to be hard to find a stable workforce for call centers. Seniority is a large part of this problem being that schedules for a starting employee can be all over the place. In most cases, the younger employees are students attending college or university and it is ridiculous to expect a full time student to have to miss class or even drop a class because they are being consistently scheduled for an unreasonable time.

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Cons

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Pros

Work from home and create your own schedule. Paid training. There is an option for therapy through the company.

Cons

They are hiring, but there aren't enough tasks to make the minimum of 10 hours a week. There are no raises and no promotions. They take a long time to respond to emails, if they respond at all. The only benefit is a 401 (k). $14 is the pay rate, and one can only work 20 hours a week, if there are enough tasks. The past couple of exams for training set one up to fail them. I have been doing this job long enough to know this. They constantly threaten your job, which really affects morale and confidence. There used to be bonuses, but they haven't done them in a long time. There were times we were given permission to work up to 35 hours for the week, but again, it has been a long time. Last one, they didn't have enough tasks to allow for workers to get to 25+. They also offered stock options, but they ended that as well. They made a major mistake on my end and threatened me unless I complied. Eventually got an email that they were wrong, but they didn't apologize. I saw they were hiring freelancers with a maximum of 25 hours a week. I wrote to management and was told the rest of us were only staying at 20. I am currently seeking other employment. There are other companies that do the same work with higher pay and actual benefits. This was once a good job, but once Telus took over, it has been downhill. I would not recommend this company anymore. I'm starting to wonder if this isn't a sinking ship.

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