Run, Don't Walk, Far Far Away from this Company! - Work At Home Telephone Customer Service Representative Alorica Employee Review

1.0
21 Nov 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

There are two advantages to this position: 1. Your work from home so you can stay in your jammies all day long if that's what you choose to do. 2. Work time is available to schedule in 30 minute increments so it makes it easy to work around your schedule if you already have another job or if you have family obligations.

Cons

I don't even know where to start with the cons. First, their software constantly has glitches. During every shift I've had to log out and then log back in (along with pretty much every agent who is working), which affects my schedule adherence and productivity. Even though Alorica's software is the cause, the team leads don't bother to make adjustments so the agents don't receive strikes against them. Additionally, the majority of the team leads are very rude. When an agent reaches out to them for help, their answers are typically very short, they almost never ask what steps the agent has already taken to resolve the issue, and once the team leads give their answers, they completely shut down the chat conversation, leaving the agent to either have to wait in queue again to get an answer or try to figure it out for himself. There are constant changes to work hours availability with very little to absolutely no prior notice of these changes. Agents are forced to work the times that they are provided or else not receive hours. So much for the freedom and flexibility that Alorica advertises for work at home agents. The issues I've listed above aren't even close to all of the issue that work at home agents deal with, but honestly my hands are starting to cramp up from typing so much. If you're considering a job with Alorica as a work at home agent, you may want to think long and hard.

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1.0
16 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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