Pay Bills while you Look for Something Better - Team Manager Alorica Employee Review

1.0
10 Aug 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good exposure with partnering companies to find a future job.

Cons

Basically a joke of a company. The poor education level of employees and management is pathetic and often stunning. Much of the management is in that position because they have been there "forever." In no way should that alone be a management qualification. Team managers who can barely form a legible sentence and can't think for themselves should not be managers, yet this is the norm. These are call centers strategically located in lower income areas that attract cheap labor. If you happen to be smart, have a bit of ambition, and can prove your worth you should be able to move up quickly. Unfortunately, that does not mean any sort of significant raise. With a bit of overtime hourly employees regularly make more than salaried management. As management I treated my employees fairly, and was well liked. Recognition for this was a severely taxed bonus and a couple of hand shakes, nothing more. When a better job opportunity became available Alorica was unable to do anything to entice me to stay, yet identified me as one of their top managers.. Retaining top talent should be a priority, but top talent uses this company as a stepping stone for better opportunities. Unfortunately, any and all talent currently employed is waiting for that chance to leave for something better. Longer tenured employees are there because they really can't do anything else, and would never be successful at a respectable company.

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1.0
16 Jun 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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