Not worth your Precious time. - Technical Support Agent Alorica Employee Review

1.0
2 Nov 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Lunch breaks, and going home at night.

Cons

Clock in, they give you 5 minutes to bring up your 10+ Systems that are outdated. (if you dont have them up after 5 minutes, they get on you for wasting time) You then clock into your phone, so you can start receiving calls. All calls realistically can run a good 20-30 minutes but ATT pays Alorica money to undercut costs of having a legit Tech support dept from att, so Alorica management requires you to be on the calls atleast 10-15 max, if you're on the call longer then that, The amateur "team captains" take a big gulp of power juice and get on you for being over 15 minutes. I was pushed to tell the customer "that I have other customers waiting" and I had to just undercut them, and end the call asap, or I would be penalized. 3/5 calls have a customer who has more than 1 issue, and you are supposed to get all of that done in a 10-15 minute window. The team captains (who get paid just as much as you) walk around pretending to play boss, and harass you, make you feel like you're nothing, and the supervisors are no help, realistically, their job is to make sure to give you a high five and pretend you matter. Training is 4 weeks (not enough time to learn all of the systems) When customers call, they're talking to people not from att, but from a cheap call center that ATT pays millions to, to cut costs. Its a complete zoo. Dont ever think you'll move up unless you get into the inner circle, and you have a pretty face. They try to tell you that there's open schedules, but I tried to request a schedule change 5+ times to meet my medical needs, and they declined them all, and would give one of the inner circle people there request for being in a divorce. They had multiple monthly contests to hype the depressing agentsup, and those "contests" never followed though, I asked about them, and it would turn into a game of telephone, and no one knew anything as to who would win (no one ever did, as they were canceled midway) Pretty depressing place, you have to work in a cubicle that is no bigger than two computer monitors wide ( they have to squeeze as many agents as possible in this place to maximize profits) The atmosphere feels very jail like, brick walls, you can see the vent system in the ceiling, and very, very small windows, that all you see is the trains go by. My best recommendation: Make some quick money by attending the 4-6 week training ($12 an hour) and you also get a killer potluck at the end, and then LEAVE the place. Dont waste your life in this depressing place. Its so bad that I quit, and shortly after, my boss quit. The turnover rate is in the 70%-80% range. You get 2, 10 minute breaks, and one 30 min break, literally not enough to even smoke.

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1.0
16 June 2026
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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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