My experience - RSS Sun Media Employee Review

1.0
23 Sept 2015
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Pros

Some of the coworkers were great and very welcoming. The L2's were helpful, coworkers helped you

Cons

Lack of assistance from supervisor(s), my super played on her cell phone while I stood behind her waiting for her to respond to me - on more than one occasion. A lot of customers were the nastiest of people I've had to ever deal with, and I have worked in other call centers before. If your L2 wasn't at work, good luck with getting help. The company really didn't care to correct customers delivery issues (we handled calls from customers all over Canada for their paper delivery), they let the customers issues go unresolved, then when the customer wants to cancel I HAD to try to get them to stay, when morally I had a hard time with. If the route supervisor continues to allow problems occur despite how many times we tried to dispute it, what is the use? Oh right, money in the company's pocket. Company pulled a fast one closing the RSS part of the call center without notice, had already opened call center in another country. Our call queue would jump up than down to 0 calls within seconds, then they started shutting down our programs and phones. Didn't find out until mid day that we were going home. I wouldn't even buy a Sun Media newspaper, horrible company all together.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
31 Jul 2014
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Pros

I really enjoyed the dynamic, driven and creative environment. It was an easy-going, laid-back but very motivated newsroom where I worked, but that was more due to our local editor-in-chief than the company as a whole. That has changed a lot though and I wouldn't advise working here right now unless you wanted to get a quick step up in the media industry with a couple of years in one of these newspapers.

Cons

Relentless and consistent cutbacks throughout the entire company left a very sour taste in many employees' mouths. The newspaper I worked in was fun, creative and driven back in 2005 when I first started, but when the recession hit in 2008 we lost half our newsroom staff in one day. That was hard, but we were assured that once things got rolling we'd get back on our feet with some fresh staff. That never did happen. Instead, our staff across the country continued to be whittled down 2-3 times a year to the tune of hundreds of lost jobs. This was terrible for employee morale as we were always waiting for the next axe to fall while at the same time trying to pick up the extra workload left by former employees. It was and is also a very politically driven newsroom so if you're interested in journalism integrity, you do not want to work here. Plus, the pay isn't great at all.

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