A nice entry-level occupation - Call Center Representative YesVideo Employee Review

3.0
30 Mar 2013
Recommend
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Pros

I worked a couple years ago at YesVideo in the Call Center department. My fellow team members were wonderful people, both as co-workers and friends. It was a great stepping stone to an even better position later on in my career. I got to work directly with customers as well as with the key strategic partners - the 2 largest at the time were Costco and Walgreens.

Cons

Call center work was tedious, repetitive, and boring. Every call center representative was vastly underpaid and rarely given raises. I'm pretty sure back in 2008-2009, every rep had a starting rate of either $10 or $11 and hour, no matter the experience they had. I remember when one person working there for probably a year and a half and being refused a raise. Another was a college student who was a part timer, and being part time was their reason for refusing her a raise. I was there for about a year and a half, and was never even discussed with about a raise. Then again, this was during the peak of the economic crisis and they could've frozen all raises. There was no incentive to do good work. You just show up and do it, which gets boring very quickly.

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5.0
10 June 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Was a fine place to work, with a fine people. It is a company that takes good care of their employees.

Cons

Long work hours with mandatory overtime for peak seasons. The company informs you ahead of time, however.

2.0
22 Oct 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

-There was more freedom involved to actually assist customers than most other customer service positions - People's memories are actually quite a beautiful thing to see.

Cons

1) Basically every position is underpaid. 2) Important positions are never actually filled again when someone leaves so entire workloads are thrown onto other people with no raise actually being given. 3) You never have all of the proper resources to actually complete your job. Complaints regarding this are usually listened to for a few minutes then ignored. 4) So many people in management (Atlanta) don't actually know the job. Both my Supervisor and my Lead didn't know nearly as much about my position or even the basic customer service rep position as I did and it made me feel very uncomfortable. I constantly kept hearing both him and her give wrong answers and after so long I didn't even feel comfortable going to them for assistance because they didn't know anything. 5) Due to supervisors and leads not having the proper knowledge to handle the job, many employees simply just didn't work and got away with it for months or even years at a time.

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