Customer Service: Paycheck to Paycheck. CEO: Yellow Porsche - Customer Service Representative Athene Employee Review

2.0
17 Aug 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

-Good coworkers -Good amenities at the MAIN location

Cons

-Subpar pay -Only seems worth it to work here if you can get out of Insurance Operations (customer service). Mid level management are all busy trying to prove themselves. Meanwhile the entire department is a revolving door, turnover is insane. Morale is in the dumpster. You cannot make yourself irreplaceable to the department or you will never be promoted (“We really need you where you are right now.”), but if you don’t perform well enough you are micromanaged like crazy. They’ve begun hiring outside individuals into leadership roles who do not know anything about our company. Or promoting individuals from other departments into our leadership roles who don’t know how our department functions. Meanwhile our longtime workers who have put in time in effort are stuck and unable to advance their careers. If you can somehow sneak into another department maybe you’ll get better pay and a less toxic culture. But while you’re here you gotta keep your friends close and watch your back because the walls have ears and office politics are WILD. Not to mention how they moved the customer service departments to a new building with subpar amenities and didn’t even offer us a “sorry” or financial compensation for lost benefits (like a cafeteria, actual break rooms, etc.) and when you attempt to ask questions about this in all employee meetings (which you now have to attend via Microsoft Teams because they don’t want lowly customer service workers to be seen or heard from anymore in the main building) your questions are filtered through a moderator. If it’s not a softball question that exec would be happy to answer it’s not deemed worthy of a response. I’d go to HR (or Human Capital as they’ve so grossly changed the name to) but they are here to protect the interests of the C-Suite. NOT the workers who keep this place running.

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Athene Response
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We value and consider all feedback, and we continuously look for ways to improve our organization. I’m sorry to hear that you had this experience with our company. Athene has experienced significant growth and advancement over the last few years, and we continuously work to create an environment where people feel valued and empowered to succeed. Employee feedback is always welcome and taken seriously at Athene.

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Pros

Flex Time. Earliest your schedule can start is 630am.

Cons

The micromanaging in this department is insane no matter whose team you wind up on. There is no accountability. Quantity over Quality. The procedures for work lists are a mess and are constantly changing with no explanation. You aren’t allowed to come to conclusions on your own. You MUST ask POD. Management will ask for overtime every single week (max 10 hours) and look down on you if you don’t do any. QA is very toxic. WFM is even worse. Year end reviews are a joke. Your salary increase will not even make a dent in the rising cost of your insurance nor the cost of inflation. Work from home is allowed (barely). 4 days a month. If you’re out of WFH you either beg to use next months or forced to use No fault. If you want to advance your career choose any other company. There are minimal opportunities (with good pay) in PIP. They will auto decline almost every job you try to apply for internally. It’s difficult to be apart of any ERG as you are only allowed 1 hour a month to participate in activities or meetings. Being at the second WDM location means you miss out on a lot of things Athene (main building) has to offer. The CEO stated you are not chained to your desk when an employee asked why we don’t have Veterans Day off. The CEO also stated to not pay attention to the media when talking about our POOR stock prices. An Apollo board member is mentioned in the Epstein files.

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