Underwhelming - Customer Experience Specialist ToursByLocals Employee Review

2.0
16 Mar 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

I made a few nice friends. Downtown office location. 9 to 5 but includes weekends. I have no more positives (Filling minimum character)

Cons

The salary was average for what they expected. Vacation May to August months not allowed. This company thinks they are laid lack but one of the managers was uptight and condescending. Always checking up on me while giving others free pass and hugs. We felt like child. Started to suddenly call us love dear and honey, very annoying and it came from nowhere. If manager cannot be consistent with personality and temperament they should at least be professional. Moral of employees low. Most who have been there longtime hardly smile yet alone say hello

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ToursByLocals Response
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We’re so sorry to hear this employee experienced distress during training and coaching sessions. We listened to those complaints at the time, and discussed them with the manager involved. As a consequence we feel that she (and the whole management group) have acquired greater skill in giving appropriate feedback. With regard to the last comment, we prefer to promote people from within. The person in question started in customer support. Her Bachelor degree in Economics, together with internally provided training meant that she was well positioned to take on the work of an accountant.

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