Company Unknowing of Employee Situation - Inbound Sales Representative Alorica Employee Review

1.0
2 Jan 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great Benefits Package. Great People at representative level.

Cons

Alorica does not keep track of employee's salary. The systems, which are required to track employee time sheets keep crashing on regular bases. This results in the employee's time data sheet for pay to be inacurate, which in turn results in lower pay. Once the time data is inacurate, there is no valuable proof for the employee of time worked other than the management's fine tuning of time sheets. The management at the DirecTV client center is absolutely lost in what is happening at any level. The center has just launched and promotions are given out in a favoritism fashion. If the managment likes a particular employee than he or she can count on a promotion but if not, qualifications and work performance do not matter in order to be considered. The management believes that the best method to motivate employees is to treat them like garbage and to even pick at individuals self worth even if there was no significant control over the type of call received. The DirecTV commission plan is crap. If you are told that you are going to receive an extensive amount of commission for any sales, DO NOT believe it. The commission plan is based on different tiers where you do not have control over any. Most calls routed to the inbound agents are ineligable to be sold but do count toward your commission pool, which makes it next to impossible to make commission. Unless the hourly pay is all you need to live on, look for another, better paying, more dignifying job.

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1.0
16 Jun 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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