HR is not great - Collections Representative Alorica Employee Review

3.0
15 Aug 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The best part of working at Alorica is definitely the coworkers. Some of the managers can be chill, emphasis on “some” and “can.”

Cons

The cost of health insurance with this employer is very high and I don’t believe they offer paid medical leave to employees. Job raises are not offered, either. HR is extremely hard to reach and harassment cases are never taken seriously unless it’s one of the favorites reporting a relatively minor one-off occurrence, in which case the firing happens almost instantly while HR only sends the non-favored employee home for weeks so HR can pretend to fairly review the case. As you can probably tell, the favoritism is crazy at this job, and so are the office politics. Team managers often pick severely under-qualified individuals for promotions and openly state to other managers that the individual was picked for being the more “likable” choice, which is defined as being less likely to be vocal of their personal opinions as they differ from those of the team manager. I know of two different employees who have been overlooked for promotion for over two years for this reason despite both being officially recognized experts at the actual job, whereas people who repeatedly break client policy on calls and give incorrect information to coworkers have been officially promoted after a short period of on the job experience, with zero corrective action taken against their negative performance. Management in general are not very knowledgeable or concerned about call procedure, though, so that doesn’t really come as a huge shock.

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1.0
16 June 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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