Not as advertised - B2B Consultant Alorica Employee Review

2.0
14 June 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Flexible schedule, as long as you work 40 hours you can choose to work anytime M-F 8 - 8 on the outbound sales appointment program. Their idea of business casual can include halter tops and flip flops, very unprofessional dress so great if you prefer that look. Generally nice and helpful CO-WORKERS.

Cons

The management running the center manage by intimidation, threat and calling you slackers and losers - no personality and do not connect with the average worker. They like to make a show of being friendly and involved but I bet they couldn't name a fraction of the staff. The immediate managers mostly came through the ranks and are supportive and able to help you with any on the job issues. This company was bought out by Alorica last summer and the changes have been negative - a cut in paid time off, cut in commissions (now restored), cut in benefits as they only pay 25% of the premiums for high deductible health insurance. The bonus potential is much less than they lead you to believe - maybe 10 percent have maximun bonus and the rest are lucky to get $200-$400 a month. Raises are non-existant and if you meet all metrics maybe .25 an hour per year of service. They have decreased the pto significantly and new hires don't accrue pto nor get benefits for the first 90 days.

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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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