Nightmare call centre environment - Case Executive Optima Legal Employee Review

5.0
23 Aug 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

You will appreciate your next employer a lot more. You don’t have to worry about working your notice as Optima has a reputation throughout Leeds as a Chinese Sweatshop so employers in Leeds wont be too bothered about referencing from them. The salary will make you more humble and sympathetic of poor people because you once were one working at Optima. Easy to get a job there if you've got no experience (they're desperate for applicants)

Cons

Mental health problems, a number of us on my old team were signed off work sick due to this at some point. My manager even emailed me once criticizing my Dr for the amount of time he'd signed me off for. Management will suddenly change how your job should be done without notice and fail your audits resulting in career damaging disciplinary proceedings. (presumably to enhance their personal profile in how 'active' they are as a manager.) The parental controls are ridiculous, if your workstation is inactive for as little as a few minutes you’ll get an email from you manager asking for example what you were doing between 11:03 – 11:05 last Thursday? I even recall getting an email that was sent to all employees saying ‘Big Brother is watching you’ Obviously there’s never going to be enough room in the cons section but you get the idea...

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Optima Legal Response
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Optima Legal is an independent Law firm operating in highly professional, regulated and scrutinised markets offering our financial service clients exceptionally high standards in customer service and legal advice and as any responsible business, have extensive controls in place to ensure that all employees meet these standards. Part of Capita, a FTSE listed company we have a proud heritage in providing engaging, challenging and collegiate working environments to over 75,000 employees. As you would expect from an employer of this size and credibility, we have robust and effective processes in place in relation to employee wellbeing and staff management. We believe Glassdoor is a fantastic tool to provide genuine constructive feedback on businesses to both company’s themselves and potential employees, and as such we take the time, effort and care to understand all comments and substantiate any negative feedback received in order to improve our employee experience. Unfortunately in this instance we disagree with the accuracy of the claims made this particular post and believe them to be vexatious in nature

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