Don't Bother. - Customer Service Representative Alorica Employee Review

1.0
23 Sept 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Training was intense but sufficient to get a grip on how to perform the functions of the job. There are one or two immediate managers who actually bothered to attempt to find a resolution to employee concerns.

Cons

Employees are hired under the pretense that their job is to provide service to customers. Training isolates trainees from the rest of the call center, so we were not given any interaction with regular employees until we became "active agents." It became very clear afterward that our job is not to help customers, but to pass customer surveys. I was literally told my management at several levels that I should lie to the customer if it will placate them enough to pass the survey they would receive for my phone call. HR at Alorica essentially does not exist. I sent several e-mails to them and none of them were read. There is no "open door policy" at Alorica. My paychecks were consistently butchered, and I was not properly compensated for time worked on several occasions. Concerns were never addressed; your concerns will be noted but never acted upon. I was required to compromise my personal ethics in order to work here. I was also met with push back and disrespect when submitting my two-week notice. Your paycheck is knocked down to minimum wage if you do not provide a two-week notice, but the notice I sent (via e-mail) has not yet been opened by the individual I was told to submit it to. I have also been told by former employees that Alorica will automatically try to pay me only minimum wage for my last check, citing that they never received my two-week notice. My health physically suffered because of the stress of this job to the point that I will now have to submit a disability claim to provide for myself because I cannot work.

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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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